Charge $0.50 per article
instead of $10/mo forever.
A drop-in paywall for blogs, newsletters, and content sites. Readers pay once with Apple Pay or card in two taps — no subscription, no account, no friction.
Audience
1,000 readers / mo
Subscription model
Micro paywall
Illustrative. Real numbers depend on your audience — but the conversion-rate delta (2% → 15%) is the whole pitch.
Subscription paywalls kill 98% of buyers before they read a sentence.
Out of 1,000 readers who'd otherwise buy a single article, here's where they actually drop off.
Subscription wall (today)
700 drop off here
220 drop off here
$200 / mo
20 subscribers × $10
Micro paywall (us)
400 drop off here
400 drop off here
$75 / article
150 readers × $0.50 · 4 articles = $300/mo
Integration
One script tag. Then two taps.
No SDK, no callbacks to wire, no JS framework needed. Drop the snippet, mark your premium content, and the paywall handles checkout, receipts, and entitlement.
<script src="https://pay.example/v1.js"></script>
<!-- on your article -->
<article data-paywall="0.50">
…content…
</article>
Read the rest of this article. No account needed.
No account · No subscription
▎2 taps · 4 seconds · done
Why not just use Outseta or Stripe?
Plotted on the two axes that actually matter for writers: how easily it drops in, and whether it supports per-article pricing.
Want this on your blog?
If 100 writers sign up, I'll build this and you get the first 6 months at zero transaction fee.
Four ideas in market validation. Read whichever ones you'd actually use.