Ko-Fi isn't in the comparison above because it's a different category. Ko-Fi is a payment widget you embed on a site you already run: link in bio, tip button, simple shop. The free tier charges 5% on memberships and shop sales; Ko-Fi Gold removes that for ~$6-12/month depending on when you signed up.
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Ko-fi isn't in the comparison above because it's a different category. Ko-fi is a payment widget you embed on a site you already run: link in bio, tip button, simple shop. The free tier charges 5% on memberships and shop sales; Ko-fi Gold removes that for ~$6-12/month depending on when you signed up.
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If you already have your own website, mailing list, file hosting, and audience presence — and you just want a payments button — Ko-Fi is the right service. Makenot.work is for creators who'd rather not assemble that stack themselves. Profile pages, project and item pages, forum, discovery, memberships, RSS, analytics, and data export come together as one platform, with one identity, on every tier. Pick the one that matches how you want to spend your time.
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If you already have your own website, mailing list, file hosting, and audience presence, and you just want a payments button, Ko-fi is the right service. Makenot.work is for creators who'd rather not assemble that stack themselves. Profile pages, project and item pages, forum, discovery, memberships, RSS, analytics, and data export come together as one platform, with one identity, on every tier. Pick the one that matches how you want to spend your time.
Surplus from creator tier fees funds, in order: operations and infrastructure (~$580/month today), the founder's wage on a flat pay scale that will apply equally to every resident, residency hires after 1.0 ships, reserves, and platform development. No investors taking dividends, no board taking compensation. The residency trains engineers without traditional credentials into full-stack engineers; the goal is graduation, not retention. See [Team](/team) for who's currently on this and [Platform Economics](/economics) for the full financial breakdown.
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Surplus from creator tier fees funds, in order: operations and infrastructure (~${{ expenses.F_monthly }}/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](/team) for who's currently on this and [Platform Economics](/economics) for the full financial breakdown.
Above is what you pay MNW. Below is how you price what you sell to your fans. These are three independent models. You can use any or all of them per item or per project.
Fan pays → Payment processor → Creator's connected account
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We take 0% platform fee. Only the payment processing fee (~3% + $0.30 per transaction) applies. See [Pricing Tiers](./tiers.md#understanding-stripes-per-transaction-fee) for how this affects small transactions.
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We take 0% platform fee. Only the payment processing fee (~2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) applies. See [Pricing Tiers](./tiers.md#understanding-stripes-per-transaction-fee) for how this affects small transactions.
Once verified and routed, Makenot.work provisions SSL automatically via on-demand TLS — a Let's Encrypt certificate is issued the first time a visitor connects. No action needed on your end. (DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate, so the first load may briefly show a certificate notice until the routing record resolves.)
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Once verified and routed, Makenot.work provisions SSL automatically via on-demand TLS. A Let's Encrypt certificate is issued the first time a visitor connects. No action needed on your end. (DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate, so the first load may briefly show a certificate notice until the routing record resolves.)
Embed your items, projects, and tip button on any external website. Each embed is a self-contained HTML page in an `<iframe>` -- no JavaScript includes, no tracking, no dependencies on your end.
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Embed your items, projects, and tip button on any external website. Each embed is a self-contained HTML page in an `<iframe>` -- no external JavaScript, no tracking, no dependencies on your end.
The platform takes 0%. The only fee is ~3% from payment processing, and that goes to the processor, not the platform.
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The platform takes 0%. The only fee is ~2.9% + $0.30 from payment processing, and that goes to the processor, not the platform.
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You find creators through [search and browsing](/discover), direct links, follows, and recommendations from people you trust. Everything you see traces back to a choice you made. No ads, no tracking, no opaque recommendations.
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You find creators through [search and browsing](/discover), direct links, follows, and links shared by people you trust. Everything you see traces back to a choice you made. No ads, no tracking, no opaque recommendations.
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Every item is classified as Handmade, Assisted, or Generated based on generative AI use. You can filter by tier. See the [Generative AI Policy](../about/generative-ai.md) for details.
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## How Payments Work
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1. You pay for content or join a creator's membership tier
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2. Payment goes directly to the creator's account minus ~2.9% + $0.30 processing
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