MemberBot
In 2022, Instagram disabled my account overnight. 450,000 followers — my entire business — gone, with no warning and no way to get it back. I had built that audience from nothing, and a platform I didn't control erased it in a single day.
So I rebuilt somewhere the relationship with my audience was actually mine: Telegram. I started selling subscriptions to my news and entertainment channels, and for the first time I owned my brand and my future outright — no algorithm, no landlord who could evict me.
My audience is Kenyan, and like most of Africa, they don't pay with cards — card penetration across the continent is low. They pay with mobile money, M-Pesa. I found InviteMember, and for years it genuinely did the job: I leaned on access codes to serve the roughly 90% of my subscribers paying by M-Pesa, on a $99/month "unlimited" plan. It also quietly took a cut of my sales — but it worked, so I stayed.
Then, in 2026, after years as a loyal customer, they changed their pricing.
And on the new plans, my sales were capped — earn more, pay them more. I was being nickel-and-dimed for every feature and taxed on the success I'd done all the work for.
As a creator you do all the work. Your success is yours — nobody should take a piece of it.
So I built the service I wished I'd had. One that solves every problem I hit: simple, flat, fair pricing. No cut of your sales. No cap on them. Not a tax that grows every time you have a good month. Your own bot, your own payment accounts, your own audience — because I know exactly what it costs to lose them.