What MyBase Is Now, and Where It's Going
Part two of the founder journey: what got built in 63 days, why each decision was made that way, and what is still open.
26 August 2026 · 6 min read
MyBase is a creator platform built around a single page: the link in your bio, which doubles as the place people buy the things you actually recommend. Part one of this journey covered how it got here, including four product names, a homepage that lasted seventeen hours, and an outage no code change could have fixed. This part is the other half: what exists now, why each piece was decided the way it was, what is still open, and where it is meant to go.
All numbers below were counted at the same commit on 24 August 2026: 1,809 commits over 63 days, 4,865 tracked files, 196,199 lines of TypeScript, TSX and CSS, and 3,418 tests across 283 files. The first commit had six test files.
What does MyBase do today?
You claim a handle and get a Creator Profile. It holds your links, your sections, collections, digital downloads, paid DMs, and products pulled from a curated Vault. You edit it on the page itself rather than in a settings form. Visitors see one page; you get one address to point every platform at.
Underneath that page are 87 routes, 64 page components, 33 edge functions and 196 database migrations. The platform is pre-launch. The profile and the Vault are real and usable; the affiliate rails and the payout plumbing are the work between here and a launch.
Why is the profile a canvas you edit directly, not a form?
Because a form makes you imagine the result and then go and check it. On MyBase you hold a section and drag it where it goes, resize it and watch the page reflow as you drag, and reorder your links with a thumb on a phone. The page you are editing is the page a visitor sees.
Each profile sits on a base, framed or borderless, and an interface style paints that base. The style is how your profile looks, not a different product with different features, which means switching style never costs you your layout. Any style that ships has to declare both a light and a dark scheme before it is allowed in, because half a design is a bug on somebody's device.
What is the Vault, and why only 100 products?
The Vault is a catalog of exactly 100 products, each one reviewed before it went in. It stopped at 100 deliberately. When the question of growing it before launch came up, the answer was written down and kept: "80 exceptional beats 1,000 thin, and our promise ('100% reviewed') must stay true at any size."
The honest bottleneck was named in the same document: images, not reviews. Photography does not scale past roughly a hundred products when one person is shooting them. Alongside the products sit 167 brands with their own pages, so a search for a brand lands somewhere real rather than on a dead end.
The review is the point of the Vault. A product earns a place by being assessed and written up, and the affiliate mechanic behind it is always disclosed rather than buried. Recommendations you did not make do not appear on your page.
How does the money work?
The pricing bet was made on 28 June 2026 and has not moved since. Zero commission on a creator's own sales on the paid plans, 3% on free, and on affiliate earnings a share of the commission only, never a share of what the customer paid. The proposed ladder is Free at zero, Pro at 12 euros a month, Studio at 39, and it is still labelled a proposal.
The internal strategy doc polices its own marketing on this, in writing: "'0% commission' = the creator's own sales. The ~15% affiliate-commission share is a separate, always-disclosed mechanic. Never blur them, or we become the opacity we're attacking."
The same doc refuses a promise the platform cannot keep yet. Before there is volume, nobody can negotiate rate uplift with a network, so no creator will be told they keep their full affiliate rate until that is true. Adult content is out for commercial reasons rather than moral ones: the payment processor prohibits it and the affiliate networks that fund the entire model ban adult traffic, so those creators could not get paid on these rails anyway.
What standards does the platform hold itself to?
Three, and each is a test rather than an intention. No invented numbers anywhere in the product or the docs. Wording that would misdescribe a Creator Profile fails the build if it reaches copy a person reads. And a performance budget fails the build automatically whenever the page gets heavier than its ceiling.
Those ceilings are 250KB gzipped of total static JavaScript, 120KB for the entry bundle and 47KB for the entry stylesheet. Four gates run every working session: two separate typechecks, because the app one does not cover the edge functions at all, then the full test suite, then a production build. Thirty-two verification scripts check accessible names, colour contrast, crawler coverage, layout at real widths and product imagery.
The rule underneath all of it is that green does not mean correct. An accessibility sweep once reported zero problems on a page that had failed to render at all. It now fails any route that comes back with fewer controls than that route actually has.
What is still being built?
Quite a lot, and it is logged as open rather than quietly shelved. Five languages are finished and switched off. The affiliate rails and the payout plumbing were on the launch runbook's pending list seven weeks after that runbook was written, and they remain the real gap.
| Piece | State on 24 August 2026 |
|---|
| Creator Profile and on-page editor | Live |
| Vault: 100 reviewed products, 167 brands | Live |
| Five languages, 1,152 keys across 902 call sites | Built, switched off |
| Affiliate rails | In progress |
| Creator payouts | In progress |
| Append-only financial ledger | Not built yet |
| Moderation audit trail | Not built yet |
The languages stay off for a reason that is written into the config file itself: adding a sixth is cheap to build and expensive to keep, so the list expands on evidence of real traffic from a market, never on a guess about which market will show up. The five that exist were chosen by creator population rather than speaker count, which is how Indonesian made the list. Arabic is out because right-to-left is a second layout, not a translation. Mandarin is out because the platform typeface has no CJK coverage.
Where is this going?
Intent, not promise. The next phase treats a profile less like a page and more like a small operating system: sections that behave like objects you can pick up, folders a visitor can open, embedded widgets, and movement that feels physical on a phone rather than like a web form animating. After that, onboarding that pulls in what you already publish, so the first version of your page is not a blank canvas.
Some good ideas have been told no in writing to keep the shape honest. Reviewing services rather than products got the verdict "strong idea, wrong time. Park it as Phase 3."
The honest position, which is also the rule the outreach kit enforces on itself: nothing here promises traffic, follower growth or income figures. The platform is pre-launch, founding spots are the first hundred, and the go-to-market is ten personalised messages a day, expecting single-digit joins per week at first.
Build one and see
Claim a handle, pick a base, add your links, pull the products you actually stand behind out of the Vault, and publish. It takes a few minutes and the free tier exists so you can find out whether the page is any good before you decide anything else. If it is not for you, you have lost an evening. If it is, you own the page every platform has been renting you.
FAQ
Can I use MyBase right now, or is it still pre-launch?
You can build and publish a Creator Profile now, including links, sections, downloads and products from the Vault. The platform is still pre-launch in the sense that the affiliate rails and payout plumbing are being connected, and there are no traffic or earnings claims attached to joining. Founding spots are the first hundred creators.
Does MyBase take a cut of what I sell?
On the proposed model, the paid plans take zero commission on a creator's own sales, and the free plan takes 3%. On affiliate earnings the platform takes a share of the commission only, never a share of the retail order, and that share is always disclosed. The price ladder itself is still labelled a proposal rather than a final decision.
How many products are in the Vault and how do they get in?
Exactly 100, and each one is reviewed before it is listed. The catalog stopped there on purpose, because the promise that the Vault is 100% reviewed has to stay true at any size, and the real bottleneck is photography rather than writing. Growing the catalog before launch was considered and declined in writing.
Why are five languages built but switched off?
The translations are complete, 1,152 keys across 902 call sites in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian and French, but the public flag is off. A language is cheap to build and expensive to maintain, so each one turns on with evidence of real traffic from that market rather than on a guess. The list was chosen by creator population, not speaker count.
Do I need design skills to make a profile that looks good?
No. You start from a base, framed or borderless, and an interface style paints it, so the layout is coherent before you touch anything. Editing happens directly on the page: hold and drag a section, resize it and watch it reflow, reorder links with a thumb on a phone. There is no separate preview you have to trust.
MyBase is a link-in-bio platform for creators. You get one page at
mybase.page/yourname that holds everything you recommend — products, affiliate
links and your own shop — and MyBase takes 0% commission and 0% sales fees,
so every cent a sale earns is yours. Alongside it sits The Vault, a curated catalogue where
a product only appears once it has passed an advanced, review-aggregating vetting process.
What it costs
Free forever: your public Creator Profile, your own affiliate links, every layout and accent
colour, curated backgrounds and profile analytics — 0% commission and 0% sales fees. Pro is
$9.99/month billed quarterly ($29.97) or $7.99/month billed yearly ($95.88) and adds custom
fonts, image and animated backgrounds, link styling, short links, an unbranded page and a tip
button. Pro never takes a share of your earnings either.
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