Our Story

Why Makenot.work exists, and what we’re doing differently.

The Problem

Most creator platforms take a percentage of everything you earn. 10%, 20%, sometimes more. The better you do, the more they take. A creator earning $10,000/month hands over $1,000 or more to a platform that costs roughly the same to operate whether you earn $100 or $100,000.

This model exists because it’s profitable, not because it’s fair. Platforms are incentivized to maximize your revenue so they can maximize their cut.

When a platform takes venture capital, the pressure compounds. Investors need returns. Returns come from raising fees, adding advertising, or selling user data. The answer is always at the expense of creators or fans.

The Alternative

We charge a flat monthly fee based on what you need to host: $16 for text, $24 for audio and software, $36 for video and large files, $60 for all features, current and future. We take 0% of your revenue. The only deduction from fan payments is the payment processor’s fee (~3%), which goes to the processor, not us.

Your tier fee funds the platform. No incentive to take a cut of your sales, show ads to your fans, or lock you in.

Self-Funded

Growth is slower. Features take longer. No marketing budget, no sales team, no growth hacks. Features ship when they’re ready, and nobody can force us to make profitable-but-harmful choices.

See How We Work for the operational details: no investors, no debt, price-stability policy, and the wind-down commitment if the platform can’t sustain itself.

Source Available

The source code is publicly available under the PolyForm Noncommercial license. You can read every line, audit our privacy claims, and verify that we handle data the way we say we do.

When we say “we don’t track you” or “your data is exportable,” you can check.

What This Means in Practice

A good platform does three things: hosts your content reliably, processes payments honestly, and stays out of the way. Everything else is the platform serving its own interests.