For makers
Build cool products.
Make smart calls.
Ship in public.
Buyers come to you with interesting ideas — products, tools, systems real people need. You suggest improvements, propose better approaches, ship in 48-hour chunks. Your getsven page is your portfolio — verifiable, unfakeable, growing with every product you help ship.
Every maker on getsven is one person. No shops, no teams, no agencies.
The shift
Leave corporate dev behind. Build real things instead.
What you leave behind
- Standups. Sprint planning. Story points.
- Perf reviews. Calibration meetings. Promotion theater.
- Reorgs, politics, managing up.
- Project managers running interference.
- JIRA tickets. Backlog grooming. Retro meetings.
- “Capacity” and “bandwidth” conversations.
- Code-for-hire on someone else’s product.
What you get
- Improve on the approach, not just execute it.
- Use your brain — buyers listen when you reframe the problem.
- Async only. Your timezone, your tools, your process.
- Your getsven page is your portfolio — public, verifiable.
- The buyer owns it. You move on. The work makes the name.
What it can become
The buyer work isn’t the whole story.
- One subscription may cover your livelihood. The rest of your time stays yours — for the startup, the side project, or the thing you’ve been meaning to ship.
- The products you ship can also be your self-promotion: real work, public, building your name as you go.
- You’re their technical founder. They bring the business side and the budget; you bring founder-grade judgment — reframe the problem, advise, build. No equity, just a flat fee you set.
- Why no equity is fair: the buyer funds the build. If the product flops, they ate the cost. You keep a shipped system on your record that proves you deliver. You’re paid to ship, not to gamble on someone else’s market.
What makers get
Brain work. Autonomy. A portfolio that compounds.
Use your brain.
Suggest improvements. Reframe the problem. Your judgment influences what gets built — sometimes the most valuable 48-hour deliverable is a sharper question, not code at all. Buyers come to you for your brain, not just your typing.
Work your way.
Async only, no calls. Set your timezone. Use your own tools — Claude, GPT, your proprietary in-house stack, or just your editor and terminal. Your judgment, your process, your craft.
Grow a portfolio that compounds.
Every product you help ship is meaningful work — for the buyer, their users, and your public record. Build products that make a difference. Buyers may find you through work you’ve already done. The portfolio grows itself.
Set your rate. 1-2 buyers.
You set your flat monthly rate — $1,995, $4,995, or $7,995. Based on where you are: $1,995 = solid maker shipping working software. $4,995 (most picked) = professional with years of experience. $7,995 = rare specialist with domain expertise few people have. Buyers commit to your rate. 1-2 buyers concurrently — Pro rate × 2 ≈ $10k/month, if you can reasonably do the work.
Getsven handles
You build. Getsven handles the rest.
You keep 85%. The 15% covers payment processing, and getsven’s marketplace cut — inbound buyers, board, infrastructure, the works. No setup fees, no monthly SaaS, no per-deal rake. You and the buyer work directly; getsven doesn’t interfere.
Inbound buyers. Your page is public.
Your getsven page is public — share the link freely. Bio, blog, social media, email signature. Self-promotion is how the marketplace works, not a dirty word. Buyers come for your expertise; no proposals, no Upwork bids, no cold pitches.
Tax, invoicing, payments. You keep 85%.
Getsven handles VAT, sales tax, invoicing, and refunds — every country with a real tax authority. Buyers pay upfront — you get paid twice a month, globally. We don’t hold your cash for 30 days.
Fizzy by default. Bring your own tools.
Getsven provides Fizzy (kanban for tasks and comments) out of the box. Prefer your own tools? Bring whatever makes you productive. You and the buyer work directly — getsven doesn’t interfere. We handle the paperwork, not the work.
How it works
Buyer subscribes to you. You ship. They own it.
List
Your getsven page shows what you’ve shipped. Buyers pick you by your work — not your resume, not your follower count.
Scope
You and the buyer figure out together (via chat) where to start. Break it into 48-hour increments. The scope evolves incrementally as you ship — each increment informs the next. No fixed 30-day plan, no kickoff calls.
Ship
One piece every 48 hours. The board accumulates into a ready-to-use product the buyer owns. You get paid twice a month.
The 48-hour increment
Incremental work. You break the work into small deliverables — a module, a feature, a patch, research, an analysis. Each one ships in 48 hours. You plan the increments, you explain the scope of each to the buyer, you guarantee the delivery. Many increments accumulate into a ready-to-use product.
End-to-end
Complete deliverables. Each piece you ship is whole — source code, scripts, deployment, hosting setup, automated updates, the launch. You build it, you put it live in the buyer’s own infra, you hand them the keys. They never need anyone else to finish the job. That end-to-end ownership is the expectation — and it’s what makes the work a real product on your record, not a half-finished repo.
Still employed?
Getsven is a landing pad. Not a leap.
List now, keep your job. Ship one small public thing to seed your page — your employer’s proprietary code doesn’t count, but a weekend tool does. When a buyer lands and the math works, you transition out on your terms.
If you’re the kind of builder who’d rather create than play influence games with management — the kind big tech tends to bury because you won’t play politics — this is built for you. Async only, your tools, no perf reviews, no reorgs, no managing up. You ship. The work speaks.
First time?
Ship one thing. Then apply.
Getsven makers are listed by what they’ve shipped. No shipped work yet? Ship something — a small tool, a side project, anything real that runs. Then apply.
If it fits, apply.
Send a link to one thing you’ve shipped. That’s the application. If it’s a fit, we’ll set up your page, your board, and your first buyer.
The first maker on getsven.com is the founder — proving the loop, DesignJoy-style.