Patreon runs real membership infrastructure and moves real money for creators. If members are your model, it does the plumbing.
The argument sits upstream of that. Patreon monetises an audience. It does not own you one.
What Patreon holds
- A slice of every payment, for as long as you use it
- Your members are Patreon accounts and reaching them runs through Patreon
- Pricing, discovery and the rules of the club can change over your head
What sits upstream
- An email list reaches 100% of the people who asked, on nobody's terms but yours
- Whatever you sell later, memberships included, launches from a list you own
- $1,400 once builds the machine. Every offer you ever make inherits it
Build the list first. Then every platform becomes optional, Patreon included.
The next step
This site is the demo. $1,400 once at founder price, delivered in days, every part registered in your name. See the pricing.