How We Work

Flat fee. All your revenue passes through to you.

For Creators

Sign up and choose a pricing tier ($16-$60/month based on content type)
Upload content: text, audio, video, software, or digital files
Organize using hierarchical tags and projects
Set pricing: free, pay-what-you-want, fixed price, or membership
Get paid: 0% platform fee, only payment processing fees

For Fans

Browse creator pages at /u/username
Purchase or join a membership to access content
Download files directly or stream in-browser
Build a library of purchased content

Payment Flow

Fan pays $10
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Payment processor
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Funds held in creator's connected account
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Creator withdraws on their schedule

We never touch creator revenue. Payments go directly to creator-controlled payment accounts.

The Model

You pay a monthly tier fee based on content type ($16-$60). We take 0% of your fan revenue. The only deduction is the payment processing fee (~3%). No ads, no percentage cuts, no hidden fees.

The Math

Stripe’s US standard processing fee is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (see stripe.com/pricing). The total depends on how many fan transactions you take, not just the gross dollars. The examples below assume an average fan transaction of $10.

At $1,000/month in fan revenue (≈100 transactions × $10):

10% platform cut = $100 to the platform
Flat fee model = $16-$60 tier fee, plus Stripe: 100 × $0.30 + 2.9% × $1,000 = $30 + $29 = $59 processing

At $10,000/month (≈1,000 transactions × $10):

10% platform cut = $1,000 to the platform
Flat fee model = same $16-$60 tier fee, plus Stripe: 1,000 × $0.30 + 2.9% × $10,000 = $300 + $290 = $590 processing

At $50,000/month (≈5,000 transactions × $10):

10% platform cut = $5,000 to the platform
Flat fee model = same $16-$60 tier fee, plus Stripe: 5,000 × $0.30 + 2.9% × $50,000 = $1,500 + $1,450 = $2,950 processing

The gap widens as you grow. A percentage-cut platform is most expensive exactly when you’re doing the best. Higher average transaction sizes shift more of Stripe’s cost into the 2.9% line and away from the per-transaction $0.30; lower average sizes do the opposite.

Pricing

Tier	Monthly	For	Per-file limit	Total storage
Basic	$16	Text, blogs, newsletters	10MB	50GB
Small Files	$24	Audio, software, plugins, sample packs	500MB	250GB
Big Files	$36	Video, games, large software	20GB	500GB
Everything	$60	All features, current and future	20GB	500GB

Every tier is a complete creator presence: your /u/username profile, project and item pages, a project forum, Discover listing, memberships, pay-what-you-want, promo codes, RSS feeds, analytics, full data export, 0% platform fee on fan payments, and 2FA/passkeys. The tier picks the file-size envelope, not the feature set. Use the pricing calculator to compare what you’d keep versus other platforms.

Monthly billing, no contracts, cancel anytime. An earn-back credit program is on the roadmap. See Pricing Tiers for full feature breakdowns, storage details, and tier selection guidance. See our written guarantees for pricing commitments.

Your Data, Your Audience

Export everything, anytime:

All uploaded content in original quality
Complete metadata and organization
Full fan/subscriber list (when fans consent to share contact info)
Transaction and payment history

What Leaving Looks Like

Export your data (instant, complete)
Download your fan contact list
Cancel your tier
Done

Content Archive Policy

Planned, not yet implemented. We intend to build this before leaving beta.

Content that has been on the platform for 12 months or more would stay hosted even if you cancel. Your fans keep access. You just can’t upload new content without reactivating. See our written guarantees for the full commitment.

Discovery: Intentional

The Discover page has search, tag browsing, content type filters, and sorting, but none of it tracks behavior or optimizes for engagement. Fans find your work through their own choices: a search, a tag, a follow. We call this Discovery Through Exploration.

No recommendation engine, no behavioral profiling, no paid placement. Visibility comes from good metadata, accurate tags, and consistent publishing. See Discovery for the full picture.

Community

Every project can have a discussion forum powered by Multithreaded: threaded conversations with no algorithmic sorting, built-in moderation tools, and a public mod log. The platform-wide forum handles feedback, feature requests, and creator-to-creator discussion. See Forums.

Source Available

The source code is public. Read it to verify anything we say on this site.

We use the PolyForm Noncommercial license rather than MIT or GPL because permissive licenses let corporations take community-built software and compete against its makers without giving anything back. PolyForm Noncommercial means anyone can read, audit, and learn from the code, but no company can clone this platform for profit.

Your content is never used to train AI models. See our Generative AI Policy for how we define generative AI and how it affects what’s allowed on the platform.

Self-Funded

No outside investors. No debt. Nobody can make us raise prices, add ads, or sell the company. If we can’t sustain this on creator tier fees, we’ll wind down honestly, not pivot into something exploitative.

Prices won’t go up unless infrastructure costs force it. If they ever do, we’ll say exactly what changed, give 90 days notice, and grandfather everyone at their current rate.

Where Your Money Goes

Surplus from creator tier fees funds, in order: operations and infrastructure (~$580/month today), the founder’s wage on a flat pay scale that will apply equally to every resident, residency hires after 1.0 ships, reserves, and platform development. No investors taking dividends, no board taking compensation. The residency trains engineers without traditional credentials into full-stack engineers; the goal is graduation, not retention. See Team for who’s currently on this and Platform Economics for the full financial breakdown.

Who This Is For

Artists, musicians, writers, developers, and makers who:

Are tired of platforms that profit more from their work than they do
Have an audience (even small) or are building one through other channels
Want direct relationships with their supporters
Want to own their data, audience, and revenue
Prefer predictable costs over percentage cuts
Care about privacy and transparency