Reworked the checkout so a student goes from click to in-cohort role in under a minute. Onboarding friction is where creator tools go to die.
Showed it to two creators. One said 'so I don't have to leave Discord?' three times. Yes. That's the pitch.
Prototype layers a paid cohort on top of a server you already run. No migration, no 'move your community'. That constraint is the entire bet.
Twelve creator interviews. Every one of them already sells something to their Discord — via a Google Form, a Stripe link, and manual role-granting at midnight. The pain is the plumbing.