u/yarentusmiling

Around the world, ordinary people quietly bypass corporate banks using informal peer savings circles. In West Africa, they are Susus. In Latin America, Tandas. In Asia, Paluwagan. It is a massive, invisible $2.4 trillion horizontal economy built on pure community trust.

I built CirclePot to give this centuries-old tradition a digital, global home. It is designed to be a genuine force for good—a flat, non-hierarchical space where everyday people can come together to support one another directly and redistribute wealth among the 99% of us.

How the platform operates structurally:

• The Contribution: Members contribute a flat micro-amount ($5/mo). 80% goes directly to the peer-voted recipient's pot, and 20% covers infrastructure, servers, and international transaction fees.
• Absolute Anonymity: Traditional crowdfunding forces people to write heartbreaking "sob stories" to get help, which strips away human dignity. On CirclePot, candidates are selected anonymously, and the community votes entirely on randomized IDs (no names, no faces, zero personal bias).
• Real-Time Transparency: We keep a live, unalterable dollar tracker right on the landing page so the community can audit the system instantly.

I need your feedback on the logic and copy:

1. The Skepticism Test: When handling pooled funds online, people instantly get skeptical. Does our structural breakdown and mission clear up that skepticism, or does it still trigger red flags?
2. The Anonymous Model: How would you try to exploit or game a system where users vote on completely anonymous IDs?
3. Clarity: Does the landing page make the 3-step mechanism (Contribute - Be Considered - Community Decides) immediately obvious?

Around the world, ordinary people quietly bypass corporate banks using informal peer savings circles. In West Africa, they are Susus. In Latin America, Tandas. In Asia, Paluwagan. It is a massive, invisible $2.4 trillion horizontal economy built on pure community trust practiced in thousands of communities all over the world.

I built CirclePot to give this centuries-old tradition a digital, global home. It is designed to be a genuine force for good—a flat, non-hierarchical space where everyday people can come together to support one another directly and redistribute wealth among the 99% of us.

How the platform operates structurally:

• The Contribution: Members contribute a flat micro-amount ($5/mo). 80% goes directly to the peer-voted recipient's pot, and 20% covers infrastructure, servers, and international transaction fees.
• Absolute Anonymity: Traditional crowdfunding forces people to write heartbreaking "sob stories" to get help, which strips away human dignity. On CirclePot, candidates are selected anonymously, and the community votes entirely on randomized IDs (no names, no faces, zero personal bias).
• Real-Time Transparency: We keep a live, unalterable dollar tracker right on the landing page so the community can audit the system instantly.

I need your feedback on the logic and copy:

1. The Skepticism Test: When handling pooled funds online, people instantly get skeptical. Does our structural breakdown and mission clear up that skepticism, or does it still trigger red flags?
2. The Anonymous Model: How would you try to exploit or game a system where users vote on completely anonymous IDs?
3. Clarity: Does the landing page make the 3-step mechanism (Contribute - Be Considered - Community Decides) immediately obvious?

Looking to purchase gift sets from Rituals in the Netherlands. They don't ship to Canada so would need someone to forward shipment/s to me. Can anyone help?