Asked early, answered plainly.

Gibly is a collaborative commercial ecosystem for independent software creators. The aim is to help people who build good products find partners, reach each other’s audiences, combine complementary products into joint offers and share the revenue those offers create.

Creators keep ownership of what they build. Gibly provides the environment: discovery, agreements, attribution and payments.

Not yet. Gibly is pre-launch. What exists today is this website and the Founding Circle, a small group of creators we’re inviting to help shape how the platform works.

The platform capabilities described on this site are planned. We label them that way throughout, and we’ll update the site as each part opens.

Independent software developers, solo founders, micro-SaaS businesses and small product teams. It’s also for people who build reusable AI agents, integrations and APIs, and for educators and community businesses whose product is software.

If you own a product and want more reach than you can build alone, you’re who we have in mind.

Products made for individuals, creators and small organizations: learning tools, productivity apps, creative tools, membership and community software, lifestyle apps, and the AI capabilities that power them.

Gibly isn’t aimed at enterprise IT, consulting or managed services. The first ecosystems will form around consumer and creator-facing software.

A directory lists products next to each other. A marketplace sells them one at a time. Neither helps two creators build something together or share what it earns.

Gibly is designed around the relationships between products: tracked referrals, jointly priced bundles and reusable capabilities, with the commercial mechanics handled for you.

Yes. That’s a founding principle. Your code, brand and intellectual property remain yours, and joining Gibly is not intended to transfer ownership of your product to us or to other creators.

The detailed terms are still being drafted and will be reviewed with founding members before launch.

No. Participation is intended to be non-exclusive by default. You can keep selling through your own site, app stores and any other channel.

If a specific bundle ever involves exclusivity, that would be something its contributors choose and agree between themselves.

You set the price of your own product. For a joint bundle, the price is agreed between the creators who contribute to it.

Each creator remains responsible for their own product. For a bundle, the intention is that every agreement names who handles customer support, so a customer always has one clear place to go.

The intended path has five steps: discover complementary creators, connect about a specific idea, collaborate on the offer and its terms, launch it together, and grow from the shared customers and revenue.

Every step is optional. You might only ever trade referrals with one partner, or you might end up contributing to several bundles.

The planned sources are: sales that Gibly brings you, referral compensation when you introduce a paying customer to a complementary product, your share of any bundle you contribute to, and usage-based income from agents, APIs or integrations you publish.

We don’t make earnings promises. What a creator earns will depend on their product, their partners and their customers.

Applying to the Founding Circle is free, and there is currently no fee for taking part in it.

The platform itself hasn’t launched, so there’s no membership to pay for yet. Fees, rates and any paid plans have not been set. Founding members will see proposed terms before anyone is asked to commit to them.

By earning when creators do. The proposed model includes a fee on sales the platform generates, a portion of referral transactions for providing attribution and payments, a platform fee on bundles, and optional paid services such as deeper analytics.

No rates have been finalized.

Verification is a planned capability, not an existing certification. The intention is to give creators clear information about an agent or integration before they rely on it: what it does, what permissions it needs, how it’s versioned and how it has performed.

What the checks cover, and who performs them, is one of the things we want founding members to help define. We won’t describe anything as verified until that process exists.

Conversations, mostly. We want to understand how you’d use a platform like this, test proposed rules with you before they’re fixed, and give you a first look at each part as it opens.

It isn’t an investment, and it doesn’t give Gibly any stake in your product.

We read every application and reply by email. If there’s a fit, the next step is a conversation about your product and what kind of collaboration would help it.

Yes. A serious product in progress is welcome. Tell us where it stands in the application.

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