garrytan--gstack/test/fixtures/office-hours-brain-writeback/brief.md

Founder pitch — pixel.fund

Founder: Maya Chen (CEO, ex-Stripe), co-founder Aria Patel (CTO, ex-Robinhood). YC W26.

What

A donation-budget tool for solo creators. Set a monthly $ floor for causes you care about, pixel.fund auto-allocates each dollar across your chosen orgs (Direct Relief, GiveDirectly, etc.) the moment a Stripe payout lands. One-line embeddable receipt. 1% platform fee.

Traction

• 2026-04-01 launched private beta with 14 creators from her newsletter
• 2026-05-15 hit 51 paying creators, $4,200 MRR
• Waitlist of 230 from a single tweet by a tech-Twitter influencer
• Two creators asked about a "team plan" (multi-seat) unprompted

Status quo

Creators today either (a) write checks ad-hoc and forget about it, or (b) use Patreon-style platforms where the "cause" is opaque (general fund). Maya talked to 40 creators in YC interviews — 31 said they "want to give more but it's mental overhead."

What Maya wants from office hours

Should she chase the team-plan signal, or go deeper on the solo flow first? She's two weeks from running out of YC dorm food.