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Built dashboard that shows real net income across creator platforms. Would love brutally honest feedback on this actually solves anything.

The problem I built this for: I sell across Gumroad, Patreon, Ko-fi, and Stripe, and for a long time I had no real idea what I actually kept after fees. Every platform shows a different kind of number designed to look good on its own (sales, pledges, support received, volume), and none of them show combined net. When I actually sat down and reconciled one real month by hand, the gap between what I believed and what I'd actually kept was real money, not a rounding error.

The specific mechanics that made this worse than I expected: Gumroad's Discover marketplace charges 30% instead of the advertised 10%, with zero dashboard indication of which sales came from where. Patreon's iOS subscriptions carry an Apple cut and can sit pending for up to 75 days. Etsy's ad-attribution fee becomes mandatory and permanent once a shop crosses $10K in trailing revenue.

What I built: Owelet connects to each platform via read-only OAuth and stores gross, fee, and net per transaction from the platform's own API data, not estimated from published percentages. Free for 2 platforms, $19/month for unlimited.

What I actually want from this post: not validation, an honest gut check. If you sell on more than one platform, would this solve a real problem for you, or is this a "neat idea, wouldn't pay for it" situation? If it's the second one, I'd genuinely rather know that clearly than get a polite maybe. Also open to "this is a real problem but your execution/positioning is off" if that's the honest read.

Site's at owelet.app if you want to poke at it before answering. No pressure either way.

on July 26, 2026