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Platform Economics

As of 2026-06-04.

What you pay, what it covers, the position we're operating from, and what we commit to.

What You Pay

See Pricing for the current tier prices, the founding-creator rate, and the provisional standard rate.

What It Covers

Your subscription funds three things, at a high level:

Cost to deliver. The infrastructure that hosts your content (application servers, database, object storage, bandwidth) and the payment processing fee Stripe charges on each transaction.

Platform overhead. Ongoing development, day-to-day operations, legal and compliance work, and reserves held against unexpected costs so a bad month doesn't force a price increase or a shutdown.

Returned to creators. Surplus beyond what cost-to-deliver and platform overhead require is earmarked to come back to you as earn-back credit. We've committed to launching that program no later than 2027-01-01.

No surplus goes to investors, shareholders, dividends, executive bonuses, paid acquisition, or marketing spend. We have none of those things.

Where We Are

Numbers refresh at the close of every two-month sprint, alongside the changelog recap. The paying-creator count is read live from the database at the time you load this page.

  • Paying creators today: 0
  • Break-even at the assumed tier mix: approximately 22.5 paying creators at the standard rate, 46.8 at the founding rate. (Derivation in the build's assumptions.toml.)
  • Cash runway at current burn: 17 quarters.

Reserve capacity (twelve months of fixed costs plus a legal reserve and a single-incident shock reserve) is approximately $62k, derived from the build's assumptions. Reserves shrink before prices change; a single bad month doesn't move the headline rate.

What We Commit To

The binding commitments live in What We Guarantee. The short version:

  • No surprise raises. Prices only change under conditions stated in writing.
  • At least 90 days notice on any change.
  • Existing creators are grandfathered at their current rate for at least 12 months when standard rates rise.
  • When our cost structure permits, the direction is downward. Cost-favorable changes apply retroactively to active subscriptions.

What We Won't Do

  • Percentage cuts. We will not skim a percentage of what fans pay you.
  • Per-transaction fees on top of Stripe. The only deduction is Stripe's processing fee, which goes to Stripe.
  • Surge pricing. Tier prices do not move based on demand, time of day, or who you are.
  • Quiet plan-gating. Features won't migrate between tiers without notice and grandfathering.
  • Paid acquisition or marketing. We don't fund growth by spending your subscription on ads.

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