Financial Transparency
The Aceship Money Map
Every dollar flows into the commons — then back out to keep the community safe and open. No hidden buckets, no surprise line items.
Money in
Optional supporter memberships, founding and patron supporters, opt-in contextual ads, and modest platform fees on paid creator activity.
Money out
Trust & safety, hosting and infrastructure, fair pay for the people who keep this place running, accessibility for members who can't pay, and reinvestment into the community.
The commitments behind this flow are written down in the Purpose Charter.
Creator Economy
How members earn from their contributions
Members earn from what people genuinely value and chose to support — never from capturing attention. No payouts based on views, likes, or virality. Everything below rewards quality, expertise, and real participation instead.
Ways to earn
Voluntary tips & support
One-time tips to another member for a post, resource, or piece of art they appreciated. Voluntary and after-the-fact — rewards genuine value, not reach.
Paid workshops, courses & Q&A
Members with expertise offer paid sessions on identity, relationships, creativity, and wellbeing. A create-offering flow with price, enrollment, and access delivery.
Paid events
Ticketed online workshops, creative sessions, and gatherings. Reuses the events system with a ticket price and paid RSVP. In-person tickets are exempt from app-store fees.
Creator subscriptions
Ongoing subscriptions to a member's own space or premium content. Subscribers pay for a chosen creator relationship, not for feed-surfaced clickable content.
Member marketplace
Ace artists, writers, and makers sell their work — art, zines, commissions, services. Straightforward commerce that doesn't touch the feed's incentives.
Community-funded projects
Members directly fund member-proposed creative projects. A member pitches; the community chooses to back it. Money flows member-to-member without any attention-market dynamic.
Revenue split
Different transaction types carry different fees, scaled to how commercial vs. gift-like each one is. The principle: the more commercial the activity, the higher the fee; the more it's a gift, the lower.
Tips & voluntary support
Payment processing only; even that may be absorbed on small tips. A pure gift of gratitude stays a gift.
Community-funded projects
Members directly funding a creator's project — more than a tip, less than a sale. A small fee because the platform builds and runs the funding mechanism, payment rails, and discovery factors.
Sales & commercial offerings
Marketplace, courses, paid events, subscriptions. Full platform infrastructure: hosting, discovery, billing, safety, audience. Sits alongside the most creator-friendly platforms.
What the fee funds
The platform fee flows into the commons pool — the same pool as supporter fees and ads — which funds safety and moderation, fair operating costs and salaries, and reinvestment.
Payment processing (~3–10% depending on method) is passed through separately and is not part of the platform fee.
Guardrails
18+ throughout
The platform is 18+ only.
Strictly opt-in
Earning is never required. The free core experience stays whole for members who never monetize.
No engagement-based payouts
Nothing pays out on views, likes, or virality. Compensation is tied to genuine value and voluntary support, not attention capture.
No pressure mechanics
The platform never pushes members to produce or monetize. Creation and earning are voluntary choices, not gamified obligations.
Safety tools carry through to every paid offering, host, and seller exactly as elsewhere. Block and report apply universally — money doesn't buy exemption.