Pond transforms how nonprofits find and fund the right tools & services to maximize their impact. By centering the buyer’s needs and truly valuing their time, we’ve disrupted how tech is discovered, sold and paid for where it’s needed most.
We help find & fund tools nonprofits need to be successful
Pond transforms how nonprofits find and fund the right tools & services to maximize their impact. By centering the buyer’s needs and truly valuing their time, we’ve disrupted how tech is discovered, sold and paid for where it’s needed most.
Hi I’m Mitch! I started Pond to give every nonprofit organization equal access to the best tech. I dreamed of a market solution and not one dependent on philanthropy - which has failed the sector to date in ensuring maximum tech enablement. When we built our first version of the nonprofit tech marketplace in 2020, we learned that we needed to do even more to lower nonprofit hurdles of limited time, money, expertise and trust in technology. So we reimagined the marketplace in 2021 to be one where
It's really surprising that this model hasn't come out sooner. Companies literally pour hundreds of thousands into Facebook ads that may or may not convert to leads. In most cases these leads never even respond. The idea of creating a marketplace for time is really unique. Great work!
Excited to see you launching this @mitch_stein1 and @johann_shudlick!
Fantastic idea. I worked at a nonprofit for nearly ten years prior to tech. In fact, before arriving at Product Hunt, I was also interviewing for Director of Digital positions at charities in the UK. They liked that I "thought like a for-profit business" not just a nonprofit. Not trying to pat myself on the back - the point is nonprofits are so behind in their tech stacks. Many of them rely on clunky nonprofit tools too when there are better tools and funding opportunities. Will share this with
A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.
Categories come from the product's launch tags. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. The primary category is listed first.
The scores reflect launch-period engagement. Historical data is preserved and doesn't change retroactively. The build date at the bottom shows when the index was last refreshed.