Terms and conditions

By making an account or using BuildMingle, you agree to these terms.

What BuildMingle is

BuildMingle helps people form teams around ideas: founders post team cards with open seats, builders ask for a seat, and the two try working together in a two-week trial before deciding.

Seats, equity and trials

• Seat terms on a team card, including equity ranges, vesting and hours, are what a team says it offers. They are not a contract, and BuildMingle is not a party to any agreement between team members.
• Nothing about equity or payment changes on BuildMingle. When you both choose to join after a trial, agree the terms in writing with your team, outside the app.
• A trial is a way to try working together. It isn't employment, and either person can end it at any time.

Your account

• One account per person, in your real name. Keep your password to yourself; you're responsible for what happens under your account.
• Be honest on your profile and in your requests: your skills, the hours you can give and what you've built.

What you post

• You keep ownership of what you post. You let BuildMingle store and show it to the people it's meant for: publicly for profiles and team cards, and only to the team for room content.
• Don't post anything you don't have the right to share, including other people's ideas or work presented as your own.
• No harassment, spam, scams, impersonation, or recruiting for anything other than the team on the card.
• We may remove content or close accounts that break these terms.

Build Month

• Any team with at least two members can enter once per month with a highlight of what it shipped.
• Each person gets one vote per month and can't vote for their own team. Votes close on the closing date.
• The entry with the most votes wins. In a tie, the entry that reached its final count first wins, then the one that entered first.
• The prize is the Startup Spotlight: the winning team is pinned at the top of Explore for the month after, and keeps a winner badge on its card. There is no cash prize.

The service

BuildMingle is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and your data safe, but we can't promise it will always be available or that any team will work out. We aren't responsible for agreements, work or disputes between members.

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll say so in the app before it applies.