Terms of Service

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or using Ulu (tryulu.com) or GitProduct (gitproduct.com)("the Service"), operated by Viva Global LLC ("we", "us", or "the Company"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Description of Service

GitProduct is a collaboration platform where products are built together. Founders list products with roadmaps and needs across three functional areas: Build (engineering, design, strategy), Research & Test (user testing, market research, surveys), and Market, Sell & Support (growth, sales, partnerships, support). Members contribute work and earn tokens (reputation) or bounties (cash). Users participate in testing and research for bounties. The platform facilitates contribution tracking, a platform-controlled token economy, bounty payments, and reputation management.

3. User Roles and Accounts

You may browse public product pages without an account. The Service has three participant roles:

• Founders — Create and manage products, post needs, review work, distribute tokens, fund bounties.
• Members — Contribute sustained work (code, design, marketing, strategy), earn tokens that build a skill profile.
• Users — Participate in testing, research, and surveys, primarily for bounties (cash compensation).

All roles require signing in with GitHub or Google. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials.

4. Contributions and Intellectual Property

When you submit a contribution to a product on GitProduct, you retain ownership of your original work. By submitting a contribution, you grant the product founder a non-exclusive license to use, modify, and incorporate your contribution into the product.

For code contributions linked to a GitHub repository, the repository's license governs usage rights. For non-code contributions (design, marketing, research, testing feedback), ownership terms should be agreed between the contributor and founder. GitProduct does not claim ownership of any user-submitted content.

5. Token Economy

Tokens are reputation signals, not financial securities or currency. They represent verified, reviewed work and determine your contributor tier. Tokens have the following properties:

• Tokens are minted exclusively by the platform, not by founders
• Tokens are awarded from a product's token bank, which has a finite balance
• Token sources: initial product grants, weekly activity minting, and founder purchases ($1 = 10 tokens)
• Tokens are non-transferable between users
• Tokens cannot be redeemed for cash
• Tokens do not represent equity, ownership, or any financial interest in a product
• Token balances do not decay

The platform reserves the right to modify token minting rates, weekly caps, and initial grant amounts. Token balances may be frozen or voided in cases of confirmed fraud or Terms violations.

6. Compensation Modes

Each need or task on GitProduct has one of three compensation modes:

• Tokens — Work is compensated with tokens. Appears on your skill profile and BuildMap.
• Bounty — Work is compensated with cash via Stripe. Does not appear on your BuildMap. Available to both Members and Users.
• Both — The claiming Member chooses between tokens or bounty at claim time. They receive one, not both.

The founder sets the compensation mode when creating a need. The choice between tokens and bounty (when "both" is offered) is made by the contributor at claim time and is final.

7. Bounties and Payments

Bounties are paid tasks posted by founders. When a founder funds a bounty, payment is processed via Stripe and held by the platform until the work is delivered and approved. Upon approval, the contributor receives the bounty amount minus a platform fee (currently 10%).

Founders may also purchase tokens via Stripe at the rate of $1 = 10 tokens. Token purchases are non-refundable once tokens are minted into the product's bank.

Contributors must connect a Stripe Express account to receive bounty payouts. The platform is not responsible for delays caused by Stripe account verification or banking issues.

If a bounty is cancelled before approval, the founder receives a full refund. Disputes between founders and contributors should be resolved between the parties. The platform may mediate but is not obligated to do so.

8. Reliability Score

The platform calculates a reliability score for each user based on task completion rates, on-time delivery, founder reviews, and repeat engagement. This score is public and reflects dependability across all work (both token and bounty). The reliability score is calculated algorithmically and the platform reserves the right to modify the scoring formula.

9. Contributor Relationship

Members and Users on GitProduct are independent participants, not employees of either the platform or product founders. Contributing to a product does not create an employment, partnership, or agency relationship. Contributors are responsible for their own tax obligations on bounty income. If a founder wishes to hire a contributor, that arrangement is made outside the platform.

10. Product Listings and Claiming

Products may be listed by their founders directly, imported from GitHub, or curated by GitProduct from external sources (Product Hunt, GitHub, etc.). Curated products are marked as "Unclaimed" until the real founder claims ownership.

Products can be archived by founders but not permanently deleted. Contribution history, token awards, and reliability records persist after archival. This ensures contributor work is permanently credited.

11. Acceptable Use

You agree not to: (a) submit fraudulent contributions or fake work; (b) create fake accounts or collude to inflate token balances or reliability scores; (c) create and abandon products repeatedly to exploit initial token grants; (d) scrape or programmatically access the Service without authorization; (e) use the Service for any unlawful purpose; (f) harass, abuse, or threaten other users; (g) post bounties with no intention of paying; (h) submit low-effort test feedback to farm bounties.

12. Termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, engage in fraudulent activity, or abuse the token, bounty, or reliability systems. Token balances, reliability scores, and contribution history may be frozen or voided in cases of confirmed fraud.

13. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, successful payment processing, the quality of contributions submitted by users, or the accuracy of reliability scores.

14. Limitation of Liability

Viva Global LLC shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including but not limited to loss of revenue, loss of data, token balance disputes, or disputes between founders, members, and users.

15. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States.

16. Campus Ambassador Program

The Campus Ambassador Program has its own supplemental terms at gitproduct.com/ambassador/terms. Ambassadors are independent participants, not employees. Ambassador earnings are subject to a $1,000 cap per cohort and are considered independent contractor income for tax purposes. Ambassadors must be at least 18 years old and currently enrolled at an accredited US college or university with a valid .edu email.

17. Changes to Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms? Contact us at legal@gitproduct.com.