Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We are Merwan (DevOps Engineer) and Reda (Software Engineer), the team behind Castiny. Why we built this: Gaming and tech journalism is broken. Big platforms care more about SEO, drama, and clickbait than actual quality. Passionate writers are getting pushed out, and readers are exhausted by empty content. We wanted to build a place where real human passion matters again. What is Castiny? Publish, Share, Earn. It’s the ultimate home for Tech & Gaming enthusiasts. There are no corporate bosses, no paywalls, and absolutely no editorial line. You have total freedom to write and share what you want and even get paid depending on how much traffic your articles generate from ads. Moreover, our vision is to build a full suite of tools to help you manage and grow your community. 🚨 Beta Status: We are currently in open beta! Right now, you can dive into the Articles and Forum features. The rest of this ecosystem is actively in development: 📝 Articles (LIVE): Read, write, and vote on community news and reviews. 💬 Forum (LIVE): Deep-dive into threaded discussions. 📢 Hall (Upcoming): A Twitter-like feed for short posts and quick updates. 📅 Events (Upcoming): Organize and join esports tournaments or community meetups. 🏰 Guilds (Upcoming): Built-in spaces (like Discord servers) to connect, chat, and launch video/audio calls using our custom in-house tech. 🎯 Coaching (Upcoming): Book 1-on-1 sessions with top players, complete with integrated instant messaging and video/audio calls. 🛒 Marketplace (Upcoming): An open store to customize your experience with site themes, profile banners, and animations. You can buy official Castiny items or sell your own digital creations and keep the revenue! To tie it all together, the entire platform is fully gamified with an XP leveling system and Trust Levels to reward good contributors and keep the community healthy. Our Business Model: Creators First Quality content deserves to be rewarded. When we roll out monetization later this year, we will share 70% of all ad revenue directly with our authors. We firmly believe that redistributing the value directly to the creators is the absolute best way to empower them and keep them motivated to publish high-quality, honest articles. We coded this entirely from scratch. We would love for you to poke around the site, test the live features, and give us your honest feedback. We will be hanging out in the comments all day to answer your questions! 👇

Castiny

Write about games & tech. Get 70% of ad-revenue.

Write about games & tech. Get 70% of ad-revenue.