A creator can have a shop, a membership, a community and a mailing list, yet still not have a clear record of who paid for what. That is the part I keep coming back to.

The visible tools are usually not the real problem. The handoff between them is. A member leaves the community but still needs access to a purchase. A payment fails and the conversation carries on somewhere else. A creator wants to move platforms and discovers that the audience, products and history do not move together.

I am building DukieX around that problem: one branded Space for the creator business, with the tradeoffs still visible instead of hidden behind a collection of integrations. What would you want to keep under your own control first?

Sharing how we priced DukieX before launch, partly for transparency and partly because I want a gut check from people who'd actually use it.

Most platforms take a flat cut of everything you earn, forever. Patreon is 8 to 12%, Gumroad 10%. The more you grow, the more they take, and there's no way out of it.

Not the flashy stuff, the actual grind.

• Writing product descriptions?

• Summarizing a long livestream?

• Replying to the same DM for the 50th time?

Tell me the one task you'd offload today, and I'll tell you if we're building the right things.

A few people asked what setup actually looks like, so here's the path from zero to a live Space. It's free to start and you can do it in one sitting.

Following the pricing thread, here's the other half: not what you pay us, but how you make money once you're set up. The whole point of one Space is that all of these run through the same checkout and pay out to the same place, so you're not reconciling a stack of tools at the end of the month.

I'm building DukieX, one branded Space where a creator runs their community, shop, livestreams, bookings, memberships, and ads instead of stitching six separate tools together. We're launching on Product Hunt soon.

Before we do, I want to hear from people actually in it: what's the one tool in your stack you resent paying for, and what would it take to move off it?