COMPARE IT PROPERLY
Both take effort. Only one of them still earns when you stop showing up — and only one lets you choose the hours.
WHAT IT COSTS TO TRY
Starter $24/mo or Pro $49/mo after the trial · Stripe’s card fee is separate
This isn't an argument that a second job is bad; it's an argument about shape. Shift work pays reliably and stops the moment you stop. A digital product pays unreliably at first and keeps a small tail afterwards. Many people do both for a while — the difference is that only one of them can eventually free up the evenings it took to build.
THE SHAPE
A shift is a trade: your evening for a fixed amount, every time. A product is an asset: one build, then an unpredictable but real tail of sales that needs no attendance.
THE MATHS
Twenty hours of shifts pays what your local rate pays, once. Twenty hours making a $19 guide pays nothing on day one — and then it depends entirely on whether it's useful. We won't pretend to know which wins for you; we'll just make the second one cost nothing to try.
THE POINT
Not overnight riches — optionality. The best case isn't quitting tomorrow, it's the month where the product covers a bill you were working a shift to pay.
Costs nothing to try.
Instead of one shift.
Keep both until it's obvious.
Yes — your page at store.fan/yourname, unlimited link cards, 28 themes and email capture are free forever, with no card and no expiry. You only pay when you want to sell: Starter is $24/month, Pro $49/month, both with a 14-day free trial.
Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something. What we can promise is the mechanics: a page that takes payments, delivers files instantly and keeps 100% of the price on paid plans. Whether it sells depends on whether the thing you make is useful to someone — which is why we suggest starting small and specific.
It helps, but the store also builds an audience: every visitor can join your email list for free, and every buyer is added to your customer list. Plenty of people start by sharing with the group chats, forums and communities they're already part of.
A guide, a template, a checklist, a plan, a set of photos or presets, a recorded walkthrough — anything you can put in a file. If you've solved a problem that other people also have, the written-down version of that solution is a product.
Through your own Stripe account. Buyers pay by card, Stripe deposits into your bank on its normal schedule, and we take 0% of the sale on paid plans — the subscription is our whole business model.
KEEP THE JOB. TRY THE OTHER THING.
The page is free; the trial starts when you're ready to sell.
Free to start · no card needed · 0% platform fee on paid plans
store.fan/yourname — free in 60s
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