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The easiest way to build and monetize your online communityHi Product Hunters! 👋

I’m Faiz, The Founder of Backspace, we’re super excited to be launching beta access to the product hunt community!

We also want to give a massive thank you to @chrismessina for hunting us! 🙏

I’ve spent the last few years building companies in the media, marketing, and creator space which has allowed me to spend a lot of time with hundreds of amazing creators from many different walks of life.

While all of these creators had a unique story, audience, and style,

they all seemed to have one thing in common

They wanted the ability to:

🏃‍♂️ Reach people organically 👂 Connect and engage with their audience on a deeper level 💰 Monetize on their own terms

Without having to use an overwhelming stack of tools and platforms.

So 15 months ago we set out to solve that problem,

We wanted to focus on a few key things:

📣 Allowing discovery like platforms like TikTok which allow you to organically build an audience from scratch 💬 Allowing the ability for everyone to chat and converse with the community like on Discord and Telegram so it's not just a one-way street 💳 Allowing the monetization and revenue ability of OnlyFans and Patreon and Substack

and combining those in a simple and elegant manner.

We also wanted to make it possible for anyone to start using the platform by allowing anyone to get started for free.

(we support the platform via transaction fees 💳 🙏 )

And over the last 15 months, as we set out to accomplish this feat.

We talked with hundreds of creators and community builders and built many versions and variations, so we’re excited to finally share Backspace and what it’s become.

With Backspace, community builders & creators can natively build, monetize, and run online communities in one place!

Here are some of the reasons our users love Backspace 🕺

🚫 Ad free: It's important to us that the content on backspace is meaningful

😁 Profiles: Allowing them transparency and a central place for users to find content

📢 Feeds: Allowing for your content to be discovered and for users to keep up to date.

💰 Room Gateways: Allowing them to control access to rooms with things like monthly reoccurring subscriptions

⚡️ All in one place: The Ability to have Free and paid groups within one community

And here are some of the things we're currently working on 👷‍♂️🔨🏗 :

🚧 More room gateways: NFT & token-based - geolocation - quizzes & more

🏠 More room types: Video chat rooms - Livestreams - Events

🛒 Creator marketplaces & shops

🖥 Landing pages: For paid sections showing what's included

⚙️ Indexing: Allowing your content to get discovered on the web

and so much more!

(PS we're addicted to feedback and are constantly adding features suggested by our users, so let us know what you'd like to see)

We’re giving the product hunt community early access and allowing you guys to onboard before the public does. Use the access code “Goldenkitty” (case-sensitive)

To join, sign up at https://backspacethat.com

We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback and thoughts 🙏