The interview that doesn't say "we'll be in touch."_

$ the problems we all have

Every founder. Every dev. Every project.

• 01 98% of side projects die before they ship anything.
• 02 Good devs won't risk weekends on half-baked ideas.
• 03 Vibe coders get matched into serious builds they can't carry.
• 04 Founders post their idea publicly and watch it get stolen.
• 05 NDAs are paper nobody enforces — and devs know it.
• 06 CVs lie. LinkedIn lies. Code doesn't.
• 07 "Let's grab coffee and chat" is not a hiring funnel.
• 08 Trust takes months to build; side projects die in weeks.
• 09 Equity splits get fought over before there's anything to split.
• 10 Cross-border teams = six lawyers, zero progress.
• 11 The wrong dev joins, learns the idea, ships a competitor.
• 12 Founders pick on vibes, devs join on vibes, projects die in the gap.
• 13 Most teams form wrong, ship nothing, leave everyone bitter.

$ the way

EXITR is one CLI, one interview, and one contract — and the contract only fires when you actually win.

Not vibes. Not "trust me bro." A ladder, a team, a room, a trigger.

$ how it works

  ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐
  │ founder  │───▸│  sealed  │───▸│  match   │───▸│ redroom  │
  │ posts    │    │  brief   │    │  engine  │    │  forms   │
  └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └────┬─────┘    └────┬─────┘
                                       ▾              ▾
  ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐
  │   dev    │───▸│ AI tier  │───▸│  pinged  │    │ contract │
  │ installs │    │  1–10    │    │  accepts │    │  signed  │
  └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └────┬─────┘
                                                       ▾
                                              ┌──────────────┐
                                              │   success    │
                                              │  trigger ⚡  │
                                              └──────────────┘

No team forms in 14 days? Project goes dormant. Trigger fires? Ownership transfers per signed parameters. Nothing in between.

$ three doors in

Same matching engine underneath. Different way in.

$ why exitr exists

Good devs won't waste time on bad ideas. Vibe coders won't get pinged about serious builds. The ladder filters everyone.

Acceptance rate is our day-one metric. Above 30% = real. Below 10% = broken.

Every founder we know has lost a project to the wrong team. Every dev we know has wasted a weekend on a project that was never going to ship. The tier ladder isn't gatekeeping — it's a translator. Tier 8 stops getting pinged about no-code MVPs. Tier 2 stops getting pinged about distributed-systems rebuilds. Both win. The escrow isn't bureaucracy. It's the only way strangers trust each other inside a 14-day window.

EXITR is not a marketplace. It's the rails that make serious side projects survive contact with reality.

$ roadmap

exitr.tech is the launchpad — projects in flight live here, devs build portable portfolios, scouts browse and ping.