A week ago I posted here asking "what's next" for bribes.fyi. Here's what happened after.
A few weeks ago, I posted here, honestly, kind of stuck. bribes.fyi had traction, real reports, a Hacker News spike that broke my hosting plan, but I had no idea what came next.
I didn't expect much beyond good discussion. That's usually how these posts go.
But someone read it. And a little while later, we connected properly, not a quick DM, an actual conversation. We talked for a while, about how I even got into this, why I built it in the first place, what problem I was actually trying to solve, and what it felt like doing it mostly alone on the side.
By the end of it, he said something I didn't expect: that this was a genuinely good initiative, and that he wanted to fund it, to keep it running and alive. He's also connecting me with other people who care about the same kind of thing.
Honestly, I'd started feeling like this was heading somewhere real even before that conversation. But this made the feeling a lot more concrete than it's ever been.
I'm still one person running the day-to-day of this. That part hasn't changed. But a lot of what got shown and talked about in that conversation came directly from feedback in this community, the normalisation questions, the anonymity architecture debates, all of it. So it felt right to come back and share this here before anywhere else.