[jamalone]

https://trycereal.com - Membership platform for creators that want their own site.

We made Cereal to help content creators find more independence in running their own content business, by centralizing their content on their own site and offering subscription/monetization.

It's been great, creators are able to monetize their customers without being on a 3rd party platform with ridiculous fees, or base their entire income on ads.

[carlosjobim]

Interesting project! You write that creators can monetize without having to be on a 3rd party platform, but on you pricing page it shows that clients have to pay extra to use their own domain - so how are you not a 3rd party platform?

[jamalone]

Thanks! Great question, and I should have been more clear in my terminology. We're more like a site builder + hosting provider than a general platform. The difference is between us hosting them directly i.e. Squarespace, and their presence on a platform where they are in a larger pool of creators and their branding is secondary i.e. Patreon/YouTube.

The key is that even on our lowest tier there is no cross site discovery, the only presence of our branding is in the footer, and their membership list is exportable at any time. As a result the creators feel and communicate that this is entirely "their" site, if that makes sense.