The short answerOwning your platform means your website, members, payments and email run on accounts in your name: your domain, your Stripe, your hosting and your email. No platform can raise your price, take a cut of your sales or lock you out of your members.
Renting vs owning
| Renting a platform | Owning your platform | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | Every month, for as long as you use it | Once, then only your own running costs |
| The "monthly" price | Often billed a year up front | There isn't one: you pay once |
| Price rises | Theirs to decide | None |
| After three years | Receipts | Your platform, still yours |
| Share of your sales | Some plans take one | 0% |
| Your member list | In their system; you export what they let you | In your own accounts |
| Your look | Within their templates | Yours, and changeable |
| Your address | Often their domain or app | Your domain and your app icon |
The accounts that make it yours
- Your domain, so your address is yours.
- Stripe (or Whop), so payments go straight to your bank.
- Cloudflare for hosting, free or about $5 a month with live features.
- Resend for email from your own domain.
Most of these have a free plan, and they bill you directly.
What owning doesn't mean
- You don't have to be technical. Someone can build it and set it up for you.
- You don't have to do the updates yourself. Deedmade™'s care plan ($49 a month, optional) brings new features and support.
- You aren't stuck. Your data is in your accounts, so it stays yours whatever happens to any company, including us.
That's how Deedmade™ works: we build your platform on your own accounts and you pay once. Build it free in early access and decide when you've seen it.
Stop renting. Own it.
Build your platform free in early access and see it working, usually within the hour. You pay only if you approve it, once, and keep today's price.
- No card
- Pay once, no monthly fee
- 0% of your sales
- On your own accounts