Ship the product. Not the plumbing.
Every app on this site is a thin client. There is no payment integration, no user table, and no ledger of who is owed what. The protocol underneath carries all three. What is left is the part worth building.
Every one of these is live today.
Follow any of them to the app that does it.
An app of your own
Four different apps on the front door run on one protocol. There is a fifth in the repo, stripped to the three screens that matter, and it is the one you copy to start.
BuildA kind of product nobody has made
The protocol does not know what a page is. It knows a numbered thing, who made it, and who gets paid. A new kind is a different slug and a different content object.
How it worksEveryone paid in one call
The split is an argument to the call that makes the product. Name a collaborator and a cause there and they are paid on every copy, with no ledger of your own to keep in step.
BuildThe smallest complete thing
Write, seal, drop, and get paid when a stranger keeps it. Bottle Drop is the whole loop in the least code, which makes it the best one to read before you write your own.
Bottle DropSignal in the Static
Harbor lights
One call, four people paid
Your app makes a product and names the split in the same call. Everyone in it is paid the moment somebody buys a copy. Nothing passes through your app, and nothing passes through us.
- 65%The creator13,000
- 15%Template artist3,000
- 10%A collaborator they named2,000
- 10%A cause2,000
Three things people ask first.
I would spend three months on payments and accounts before I build the actual thing.
Sign-in, identity, ownership and payment come with the SDK. The first useful call is one function.
Paying collaborators means building a ledger and keeping it correct forever.
The split is set when the product is made and runs itself on every sale. There is nothing for you to reconcile.
I would be building on somebody else's roadmap.
Your app talks to the protocol through one package, and what it makes does not live on our servers. It keeps working whether or not we build what you needed next.
The hard parts are already built. Bring the idea.
See the call