A marketplace for unfinished things
You'll never finish it.
Someone else can't wait to.
Fostoro is a marketplace for unfinished creative projects — the song missing a bridge, the novel missing an ending, the app missing a backend. Buy, sell, or rev-share them with finishers who love inheriting momentum and hate blank pages.
Everyone has the folder.
The graveyard of 70%-done projects you swear you'll get back to and never will. It feels like failure, so it stays hidden. It isn't failure. It's inventory — sitting idle because you're a starter, not a finisher.
Abandonment is universal. Fostoro just puts a price on it.
- ·The EP that stalled at the mixing stage
- ·The 60,000-word manuscript with no third act
- ·The side-project app with a gorgeous UI and no database
- ·The course outline you were so sure about in January
How to sell an unfinished project
List in minutes. Hand off safely. Keep your name on it.
List it
Drop in your half-done project. Set a flat price or a rev-share split. Say what's done and what's missing.
Escrowed handoff
Money and files move together, held in escrow until both sides confirm. Nobody gets stiffed, nobody gets ghosted.
Shared provenance
Both names stay attached — forever. You started it; they shipped it. The credit trail is baked in.
For the abandoners
You have ideas for days and follow-through for none. That's not a flaw to fix — it's stock to sell. Turn the dead weight in your drive into cash, a cut of the upside, or just the relief of seeing it finished.
For the finishers
You're wired the opposite way: momentum in, product out. The blank page kills you; a project at 70% is a gift. Adopt something with real bones and take it across the line.
The adoptable feed
Browse abandoned creative projects looking for a second author. Weirdly addictive — because everyone recognises a little of their own folder in it.
Lo-fi EP
4 of 6 tracks · needs mixing + master
Adopt →YA fantasy novel
62k words · no third act
Adopt →iOS habit tracker
UI complete · no backend
Adopt →Brand kit
Logo + type · no guidelines
Adopt →Illustrative examples of what listings will look like — not real projects yet.
Two names on every finished thing.
Provenance is built in, not bolted on. Every handoff records who started it and who finished it, so credit — and any rev-share — follows the work wherever it goes. No awkward “whose is it” later.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Fostoro?
- Fostoro is a marketplace for unfinished creative projects. Creators list work they'll never finish — songs, novels, apps, designs — and sell it outright or rev-share it with finishers who complete it. Every handoff is escrowed and both names stay on the final work.
- How do I sell an unfinished project?
- List it in minutes: upload the files, describe what's done and what's missing, then set a flat price or a rev-share split. When a finisher buys it, files and payment move together through escrow.
- Can I buy or adopt a half-finished project?
- Yes. Browse the adoptable feed, pick a project with real momentum, and take it across the line. You inherit a work-in-progress instead of starting from a blank page.
- What is rev-share on Fostoro?
- Rev-share lets the original creator and the finisher split future revenue from the finished project instead of a one-time sale — so the person who started it keeps a stake in the upside.
- Is the project handoff safe?
- Yes. Money and files are held in escrow and only released when both sides confirm the transfer, so no one gets paid without delivering and no one delivers without getting paid.
- Who gets credit for the finished work?
- Both people do. Provenance is built in — every project records who started it and who finished it, and that credit, plus any rev-share, follows the work wherever it goes.
Your unfinished projects aren't dead.
They're inventory.
List a project in two minutes. Be first in when Fostoro opens.
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