Hotly
Lets creators charge $5–$20 a week for people to message them, reply on your own time.
Hotly turns your DMs into a paid inbox: share one link, people pay $5–$20 a week to message you, and you reply whenever suits you, with payment running through Stripe. One creator with 536K followers banked $22,400 in 60 days from 217 paying fans across 921 conversations, without ads or a new audience. Self-hosting is free with 0% commission under an Apache 2.0 license, or go hosted at $5.99/month plus 20% commission, or $9.99/month plus 10%, keeping $90 of every $100.
What holds up
- +Self-hosting is free with 0% commission — keep every dollar if you run your own server.
- +Open source under Apache 2.0, so you can leave with the code anytime.
- +Hosted Plus charges 10% instead of 20%, letting you keep $90 of every $100.
- +One creator banked $22,400 in 60 days from fans she already had, no ads or new audience.
Mind the limits
- −Self-hosting avoids all fees but means running your own server and Stripe account yourself.
- −Hosted plan still costs 20% commission on top of $5.99/month unless you upgrade to Hosted Plus.
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