FAQ

Founders and makers with a live web app who want honest feedback from people who build things too. You need to be 18 or older.

MakrBase runs on points. You earn them by reviewing other apps and spend them when your app gets reviewed.

While founding spots remain, your first review is on us. MakrBase uses your app and tells you what we found. After that, review an app to earn 10 points, and your next review comes from another founder.

A short form on your dashboard. Name the one thing your app should let people do, and add a test login if it needs one. Your app takes reviews from other founders once it's set up.

Tell us in the form. "Couldn't get in" or "The app won't load" with a short note is a complete review.

Yes. Your progress and drafts are saved. Come back and pick up where you left off.

Give a review, earn 10. Get a review, use 10. One balance covers all your apps, and your points history shows every change.

Your apps stay on the board and show "Not taking reviews." Review an app to earn 10, and they reopen on their own.

When someone starts reviewing your app, 10 of your points are held. They go to the reviewer when the review is submitted, or back to you if it isn't finished within 24 hours.

Points are earned by reviewing and used for reviews. They have no cash value.

Other founders on MakrBase. Each review shows the reviewer's name and the app they make.

When you publish them. A new review is Pending, and you choose Publish now or Keep private. If you don't choose, it goes public on your app page after 48 hours. You can hide or publish any review later.

Screenshots, "broke or unsafe" flags, test logins, time spent and device details. Only you, the reviewer and MakrBase see them.

Reviews are one way: a reviewer's honest take on your app. You can publish it, keep it private or report it.

Report it from the review page within 14 days. Pick a reason and add a short note. We check it and let you know. If we remove it, you get your 10 points back. Critical reviews are welcome; disagreeing with one isn't a reason to report it.

If your app has been live for 72 hours with no reviews, the MakrBase team reviews it, and it doesn't use your points.

A review from a product manager, written as a short report that starts with what to fix first. Founding makers get 1 free. Request it from your dashboard.

Yes. Switch it to private any time from your dashboard. Private apps leave the board and search engines but stay open for reviews from signed-in founders. Their reviews stay private.

Turn off "Open for reviews" on your dashboard. Your app stays on the board and your points stay put.

For each app: page views, visits to app, reviews, your Score and rank on the board, and private averages only you can see.

Yes. Publish as many as you like. One points balance covers all of them.

Go to your profile and choose Delete my account. We remove your personal data and your apps. Reviews you wrote stay, shown as from "Deleted founder".

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