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Right now, sharing work online is all or nothing.
You either publish everything openly, send someone a link and hope they don't forward it, or keep your work locked in a folder where nobody outside your team ever sees it. There is no good way to let the right people see the right things, at the right time, without losing control. That's the gap Harbor fills.
You decide who sees what
Send work to one person, share it with a group, or make it discoverable to anyone — without losing control over who has access.
Groups that make sense
Create a group for your design team, your accelerator cohort, or your investors. Assign roles so everyone sees exactly what they should.
People can come to you
Every shared piece of work has a request form built in. Someone interested fills it out, you get notified, and you decide.
Share on a spectrum
Let someone see a preview before the full thing. Require a signed agreement before opening sensitive work. You set the boundaries.
More collaboration should be possible online. We're building the layer that makes it happen.
People are constantly making things that could help other people and their projects. But online, there's no good middle ground between “fully public” and “locked away.” We want to change that.
Make it easy for people to share their work beyond their inner circle without giving up control.
Creative people, indie builders, researchers, and founders are always making things — sketches, decks, prototypes, datasets, research, code — that could spark the next collaboration, client relationship, or opportunity. But right now, the choices are too blunt. You either put it on GitHub with an MIT license, post it publicly and lose control, or keep it in a folder where it never reaches anyone.
We want Harbor to be the place where you can share what you want to share, with whoever you want to reach, and let interested people find your work and ask for access instead of never knowing it existed. You already build trust circles — with collaborators, at events, through communities. Harbor just gives those trust circles a real place to operate online.
Give startup ecosystems a real online layer for founders to share progress and for the right people to find it.
The best investors know they’re betting on people, not just the current idea. Accelerators and programs hand-pick founders for exactly that reason. But once everyone’s in the room, most of the value stays locked up. Founders work in parallel instead of together. The connections that could change the trajectory of a company — a co-builder, a first customer, a critical piece of feedback — happen by accident or not at all.
Harbor gives these networks a real way to unlock what’s already there. A founder shares what they’re working on into their cohort. Someone across the network sees it, gets curious, and requests access. The founder reviews it and decides. Relationships start from genuine interest, not forced intros. The people you’ve already gathered start actually building with each other.
Read about IPRights4All — a venture we're partnering on — to build Creator Coin (C3), which enables collaboration at the blockchain level.
Your work can reach more people without becoming fully public.
Good work shouldn't die in a private folder just because you're not ready to post it for the whole internet. Harbor lets you share it with specific people, inside groups, or through a public profile — and you control what's visible at every level.
People can find your work and ask for it properly.
Every public asset on Harbor has a built-in request form. Someone interested submits their name, their email, and why they want access. You get the request, review it, and decide. No DM chains, no forwarded links, no guessing who has what.
Collaboration can start smaller and grow.
Share a title and description first. Add someone to a viewer role. Require a confidentiality agreement before they see the full content. Promote them to editor when it makes sense. Harbor lets relationships around work develop at a pace that makes everyone comfortable.