Founding sponsors
Help keep the bench open to every builder
Samebench is free for builders. Relevant sponsors can help support the community through clearly labeled posts, matched to project topics and interests that members choose.
Discuss a sponsor pilotA 30-day founding sponsor pilot · $250 USD
A one-time sponsorship, agreed with you before it starts. We'll review your creative, share current audience activity and confirm suitable placements. Samebench is an early community: this is a founding-support pilot, with no guaranteed impressions, clicks or leads.
Your inquiry creates no booking or charge. Availability, delivery, cancellation terms and reporting are agreed before payment. There is no automatic renewal.
See what stays free for buildersPlacements
Explore
One card among the builds looking for help, matched to the tags on the page.
Search results
One card in the results, matched to what the person searched for.
Feed
One card after the third post, matched to the interests the person listed.
Weekly digest email
One labelled block in the weekly email, matched to the recipient's interests.
A card is a headline (up to 60 characters), a line of copy (up to 140) and a button. Pilot placements are agreed in advance. Web views and email sends are reported separately; an email send is not an open or a viewed ad. Sponsorships never change collaborator rankings or appear on profiles, builds, messages or introductions.
How it works, and why you saw one
- Picked on our server from what's on screen, or from interests you chose in settings.
- Web views are counted when half the card is visible for a second.
- For signed-in members, campaign serving is limited each day.
- Every creative is reviewed by a person before it runs.
- Turn them all off in settings; nothing else changes.
- No third-party scripts, pixels or cookies.
- Our advertiser reports contain aggregate delivery totals, not viewer identities.
- Your messages, matches and private activity are never used.
- No selling or sharing of personal data.
Cards contain text only, so viewing one does not load an advertiser's images. Following an ad takes you to that advertiser's website, where its own privacy practices apply. Signed in? Change your sponsored-post setting.
What we accept
Tools, services, events, courses, jobs and hardware that builders would genuinely use. We turn down gambling, crypto giveaways, anything that asks for credentials, and copy that doesn't match where it links. We can reject or pull any creative.
Tell us about your idea
A useful developer tool, a hardware project, an event or a builder opportunity? Tell us who you hope to help.