Frequently Asked Questions

Being a creator right now is a grind. Revenue plateaus, communities stall, brand deals underwhelm, and no matter how good your work is, brands can't tell you apart from millions of accounts. FanForce is a curated platform for creators like you. When you join, you build a portable portfolio of proof-of-work: badges from backing real projects early, testimonials from founders whose products you've supported, and a public profile that lives at a URL you can share anywhere. Brands and founders find you through your track record, not through your follower count. FanForce is vetted, which means we're thoughtful about who joins. We're building for the creators who are driving real conversations in their space. When you sign up, we check your work against three simple hurdles before you're fully onboarded. Passing means someone on our team looked at your work and thought, yes, this is exactly the kind of creator we want to build this platform with.

Because a platform full of everyone isn't valuable to anyone on it. The whole point of FanForce is that the creators here are real, real communities, real voices, real work. That's a promise we make to founders, brands, and creators alike, and the vetting is how we keep it. The vetting is how we make sure the platform stays valuable for everyone on it. When you sign up, someone on our team checks your work against three simple hurdles (see the next question). Clear all three and you can join the FanForce Fraternity. No worries if you miss one or even two hurdles, we'll share what to focus on so you can join when the fit is right. Plenty of creators come back and get in. For our founding cohort, being approved now is where the compounding starts. Your portfolio grows with every project you back, every testimonial you earn, every campaign you complete. The creators who get in early are shaping what the platform looks like.

Three simple checks. We look at: 1. At least 1,500 followers on X. Baseline audience size, enough that your voice reaches people, not so small that you're just starting out. 2. Consistent posting activity in the last 90 days. You've been actively creating, not silent, not a burst-and-abandon account. We can see this from your timeline. 3. Substantive content in a real niche. Your work shows real expertise or a distinct voice in your space. Depth over volume. Clear all three and you can join the FanForce Fraternity, we'd genuinely love to have you. If you don't clear all three the first time, no problem. We'll tell you what to work on and welcome you back anytime. Plenty of creators grow into it. This bar is what makes FanForce work: brands and founders trust the platform because they know every creator on it is real, which means real opportunities flow through to you.

Two ways your portfolio grows. Spotlight badges: you post substantive content about a project on our Spotlight platform. Our team currently reviews posts and awards badges based on founder input, and in an upcoming update founders will do this directly through their own dashboard. Either way, once your post earns a badge, it lives on your profile forever, linked to your original post, with a timestamp showing when you backed the project. Founder testimonials: founders on projects you backed can write short endorsements about your work. You review, approve, and choose which ones show up on your profile. Founders can't write testimonials for themselves, the words are theirs, but you decide what goes public. Anything you don't want shown, you hide. Both compound on your profile over time. Every project you back adds to your portfolio. Every testimonial adds credibility that comes from real founders, not from us.

Your profile is a public URL you can share anywhere: bio, media kit, sponsorship pitches, LinkedIn. It shows: A verified proof band at the top with your badge timeline of every project you've backed, ranked by how early you were. Your stats: projects supported, best earliest rank, total Pulses, testimonials, feedback sessions. A "Founders on the record" section with approved testimonials from founders whose projects you backed. The core profile with your handle, follower count, niches you cover, badge count. It's not a scoreboard. It's a portable portfolio of the real work you've done, in a form brands trust because it's built from third-party endorsements rather than self-reported metrics.

Yes, and it's one of the strongest ways to show a project you're a real advisor, not just an amplifier. Once you've backed a project, you can send its founder structured product feedback covering four areas: product, website, marketing, and product-market fit. It's a guided form with proof-of-trial required (screenshot, email, or recording that shows you actually used the product). Founders read your feedback and rate how useful it was. Your feedback quality becomes part of your portfolio, positioning you as a creator who thinks carefully about the products you back. This is often what turns a one-off badge into a real ongoing relationship with a founder, ambassador roles, early product access, deeper collaboration. If you want to be seen as a serious advisor to the projects on Spotlight, this is how you signal it.

Sign up with your X account or email, both work the same way. Answer one question: "What brings you to FanForce?" (creator, fan, or founder). You'll get 40 Pulses just for signing up, plus another 60 when you claim your first badge. After that, pick a project on Spotlight, post about it, and you're on your way. Your first badge is worth 60 Pulses.

Nothing. FanForce is free to join and free to use. Earning badges, receiving testimonials, giving feedback, building your portfolio, all included. Our focus right now is building the ecosystem and making sure it delivers real value for the creators and projects on it. We'll share more about what's next as we grow.

We work with a mix of projects, some in crypto and some not. Joining and using FanForce doesn't require crypto expertise. Payment currently flows through crypto rails, so if you're earning through feedback sessions or campaigns, you'll need a wallet to receive funds. We're actively adding other payment methods (traditional rails, bank transfer) to make it accessible to creators who prefer them. If you're not crypto-native but want to join, we can help walk you through setting up a wallet, it's simpler than most people think.

FanForce is a complete ecosystem for finding real creators, working with them meaningfully, and turning that work into permanent record. If you've tried creator marketing before, you know the problems: hard to identify who's real, hard to distinguish signal from noise, hard to know if the creator will actually engage with your product beyond a single post. FanForce solves this with two connected sides. Project Spotlight is where founders bring their projects onto our platform, receive posts from creators about the product, and provide input for badging quality work. Creator Spotlight is the curated directory of vetted creators, people who've cleared our three quality hurdles and are actively building portfolios by backing real projects. Every interaction contributes to the ecosystem. Creators build real portfolios. Founders build a record of who backed them early. Both sides benefit from the compound effect.

100+ projects onboarded and actively working with creators. We've run profitable campaigns for real projects, distributed $35,000+ in on-chain rewards, analyzed 22.4 million replies across creator posts, and identified 26,000+ real fans across platforms. The platform gives founders a structured workflow: bring your project on, receive submissions from creators, review them through the founder dashboard, write testimonials that stay on the creator's public profile forever, and rate the feedback creators give on your product. Badge approval is currently managed by our team based on your input; direct badge controls for founders are rolling out in an upcoming update.

Founders get their own account type and a dashboard built around one question: who's already talking about my project? To unlock the dashboard, you prove ownership one of three ways: Continue with X (instant, when your linked handle matches the project's official handle). Verify with a work email (instant, at your project's domain). Ask FanForce to confirm (about a day, when we manually review your proof). Once claimed, you see badge holders, reach, earliest supporters, and stats, all in one place.

The main view answers: who backed my project, what needs my attention, recent posts, stats, and premium features on the roadmap. Specifically: Supporters list with search, filter by tier, sort by earliest support, and reach out through FanForce (not direct DMs). Reach numbers showing how many people your backers have collectively reached. Testimonials queue for creators who've asked you to publish endorsements, or where you're waiting to write one. Feedback queue for creator submissions waiting for you to read and rate. An AI outreach preview, clearly labeled coming soon, nothing sends without your review. Some features are premium and marked as such. Core dashboard access is free once you claim your project.

Founders can write short endorsements about creators who backed them early. Click the link, pick which of your project's badges the testimonial is anchored to (so it ties to a specific post from that creator), write your endorsement in your own words, submit. The creator reviews, approves, or declines. If they approve, it shows up in the "Founders on the record" section of their profile. Creators can't write testimonials for themselves, the words are yours, but they control what goes public. There's a draft-assist option that can help suggest wording based on facts you provide, but if you'd rather just type your endorsement, that works too. Nothing gets invented for you.

Creators who backed your project can send you structured feedback covering product, website, marketing, and product-market fit. They need to prove they actually tried your product (screenshot, email, or recording) before the submission goes through. This is signal, not spam. Creators submit feedback because it builds their portfolio as a serious advisor, so the ones who take the time are the ones genuinely interested in your product. You're hearing from creators who cared enough to actually try what you built and think carefully about it. You read the feedback in a structured view showing per-section scores and answers, then rate how useful it was. Useful feedback contributes to that creator's portfolio; not useful feedback doesn't hurt them, it just doesn't count for as much. Beyond the feedback itself, this is often how you identify creators worth deeper relationships with, ambassador programs, ongoing partnerships, product advisors. Think of it as thoughtful signal from real users, not a random inbox of opinions.

We work with both crypto and non-crypto projects. Our platform, the Directory, and creator engagement workflow don't require any crypto expertise on your side. Payment currently flows through crypto rails, which works well for many of our current projects. We're actively adding other payment methods (traditional rails, credit card, bank transfer) for projects and creators who prefer them. If you're not crypto-native but want to run campaigns through us, we can help with the workflow, or wait until traditional rails are live if you'd prefer.

FanForce is a curated platform for real creators. As a fan, that means better discovery, the creators on the platform have all been individually vetted against quality hurdles, so you spend less time figuring out which creators are actually worth following. Beyond discovery, we're building tools to recognize the fans who make creator communities real. The value you add by showing up, engaging, and championing the creators you love is invisible on most platforms. We're changing that.

We identify people who genuinely engage with creators across platforms (real comments, shares, sustained engagement, not one-time likes). When a creator activates their Fan Leaderboard, their top fans become visible to the creator themselves and searchable by brands evaluating that creator's community. Over time, fans identified this way will be eligible for reward distributions when creators run campaigns. Fan Leaderboards are not public. This is deliberate. Public leaderboards create incentives to game them, which makes the whole signal worthless. By keeping them visible only to the creator and searchable by brands, we protect the signal and preserve its value as real community proof.

Creators on FanForce have a distinctive profile with a "Verified on FanForce" band at the top of their page, showing their badge timeline and stats on early support. You can also browse the Directory to see creators across categories and discover new ones worth following.