Spent the last year solo-building a creator app on Solana

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Disclosure up front: I’m the founder, so this is my project. Mods, if this crosses a line just tell me and I’ll pull it. I’ve been heads-down for about a year building a creator-monetization app on Solana. Short version of the stack for anyone who cares: embedded non-custodial wallets (Turnkey, so users never see a seed phrase), creator tokens via Meteora’s dynamic bonding curve, token-gated content, tipping, and an Instagram-style video feed. Honestly the Solana parts were the most fun. The brutal parts were everywhere else: • A paid-content “paywall” that turned out to be cosmetic CSS blur over the real bytes, anyone could pull the file from DevTools. Had to rebuild gating end-to-end through service-role endpoints because auth.uid() is always null under embedded wallets. • Getting a mobile video feed to Instagram-grade time-to-first-frame without melting the device with two decoders. • Signature verification on tips/unlocks you cannot trust a client-supplied tx signature, it has to be verified on-chain. The one design call I keep defending: I refuse to put social actions (votes, etc.) on-chain. Only value transfers touch the chain. Everything else stays in Postgres or the UX dies. The thing I’m actually trying to figure out now is the creator side. The pitch is “your token actually does something” holding it unlocks the creator’s content, and creators earn on both unlocks and trade fees, instead of a token that’s pure speculation. If you’ve launched or backed a creator token before: what made it feel worth holding past day one? That’s the part I most want to get right. Happy to drop a link in the comments if that’s allowed here.   submitted by   /u/alexsssaint [link]   [comments]