Animated illustration: an uneven pulse line, one small light for a person asking for help, a reward held in a ring of escrow, many points of light gathering around it into a constellation, the pulse steadying, and a ring of 365 days completing before the reward is paid.
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Describe the problem, lock a reward in escrow, and let researchers, clinicians and builders compete to fix it. The money moves only after the fix holds.
After a reported breach at a major US lab company, one patient posted an offer to whoever now had her records: $10,000 to cure her chronic illness, paid after one year symptom-free.
It was funny because it was a reasonable deal. She had already tried the usual routes. The goal was clear, the reward was clear, and nobody got paid unless it worked. HealthBounty takes that deal seriously and adds the parts the joke was missing: consent, escrow and verification.
Four steps, and the money moves at the last one.
Step 1
Describe your condition, your history and what you have already tried. Posts are anonymized by default, and you choose each detail a solver can see.
Step 2
Set the reward and define what "solved" means. The money sits in escrow, so solvers know it is real and you know it only moves on the terms you set.
Step 3
Researchers, clinicians and builders send protocols with their reasoning and sources. You review them and decide, with your own doctor, what to try.
Step 4
Agree on the measure up front, like six months without a flare. If the result holds for the full period and checks out, the bounty pays. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
The reward waits until the good days hold.
These are made-up examples to show the format. They are not real people or real posts.
Six years. Worse after poor sleep and around my cycle.
Since an infection in 2022. I crash for days after a short walk.
Cracks and bleeds every winter. Patch tests were inconclusive.
The right idea for a stubborn case often comes from someone who has seen ten like it, read the obscure paper, or built the tool that measures the right thing. HealthBounty pays for the idea that works.
Bring a mechanism or a paper that fits the case, and get paid when it helps someone.
Say what you would look at next, within your license and your local rules.
Propose experiments a patient can run safely alongside their own doctor.
Make the tracking, testing or analysis that shows whether something actually worked.
Your name, exact location and contact details never appear on a bounty.
You pick what each solver can see, and you can take it back.
Export it or delete it whenever you want. We won't sell or rent health data.
Payouts depend on the outcome you agreed to, checked over the full period.
Right now this site is a preview. It has no forms, sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It collects nothing.
HealthBounty isn't live yet. This is how we are designing it.
No. Solvers share ideas and evidence. Any decision about your treatment belongs to you and a licensed clinician who knows your case.
You and the solver agree on the measure before any work starts. It might be a symptom diary, a lab value, wearable data or a clinician's confirmation. The payout follows that agreed measure over the agreed period.
Each bounty runs for a set window. If no protocol meets the agreed outcome in that time, the money goes back to you.
Only with your doctor involved. Protocols are suggestions to discuss with a licensed clinician, and anything that needs medical supervision is labeled that way.
Real money held in escrow, a public record of solved cases, and hard problems that aren't in any textbook.
There is no signup yet, on purpose. We won't collect a single email until escrow, consent controls and verification are ready. Check back here.
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