Charge subscriptions, gate content, run AI features, collect data — all hosted, with no Stripe to wire up, no API keys, and no backend to manage. Describe it, ship it, get paid.
No credit card. No API keys. No usage meters to babysit.
Getting to a working prototype is the easy 70%. Turning it into something that takes payments and stays live is the painful part — and it's exactly the part Starborn does for you.
The whole stack, handled
You describe the app. Starborn provisions the backend, the billing, and the AI behind it automatically.
Built-in authentication with secure login pages, user profiles, and admin / editor / viewer roles. Add protected, members-only pages in a sentence.
Backend-powered forms with file uploads, versioned schemas, public or private submissions, and admin email notifications. No database to set up.
Charge a recurring monthly fee with Stripe Checkout, a hosted paywall, and a self-serve customer portal. We handle products, webhooks, and payouts.
Add chatbots, content generation, structured extraction, and image generation with one API. Top models, streaming, multimodal — billed cleanly to users.
Send invitations, reminders, updates, and receipts with templated emails and guest links — no SendGrid, Resend, or mail server to configure.
Go live in one click on a free address, or connect your own domain. It's a hosted production system from day one — not an export you have to deploy.
The part no one else does
Turn on AI billing and your subscribers' in-app AI usage is funded out of their subscription — not your pocket. You keep a guaranteed minimum cut of every payment. The more they use it, the more your product earns.
They pay your monthly price through Stripe Checkout — handled entirely by Starborn.
Part of each payment becomes that subscriber's AI budget. Their chatbots and generations run on it — never on your credits.
A guaranteed minimum percentage of every payment is yours. No API bills, no metering code, no margin erosion as you scale.
The same jobs, minus the wiring, the keys, and the migration.
| The job to be done | Typical AI app builder | Starborn |
|---|---|---|
| Collect data & files | Wire up a database | ✓ Forms API built in |
| User logins & roles | Wire up an auth provider | ✓ Auth built in |
| Charge recurring money | Integrate Stripe yourself | ✓ Checkout + portal built in |
| AI features for your users | Bring & pay for your own API keys; cost scales with users | Metered to the user / funded by their subscription |
| Send email | Configure a mail service | ✓ Email API built in |
| Hosting & domain | Export & deploy elsewhere | ✓ Hosted + custom domain |
| Reach production | Fight the last 30% & migrate | Already in production |
| Stuck on the hard part | You're on your own | ✓ Bring in a human expert |
If it has logins, takes payments, or runs on AI, it's a Starborn app.
Gate posts, downloads, or a community behind a monthly subscription with self-serve billing.
A niche AI writer, analyzer, or generator where each subscriber's usage is funded by their plan.
Sell access to lessons, templates, or premium articles with protected, members-only pages.
Charge businesses to be listed, collect submissions, and feature them on a public, searchable page.
Take bookings, collect intake forms and files, and give clients a private logged-in area.
Recurring revenue, member-only updates, and AI-assisted content — all in one place.
Here's the loop your users move through — and every piece of it is handled for you.
Stripe Checkout, hosted paywall, and the customer portal are all provisioned automatically.
Auth gates the protected pages instantly. Non-members hit the paywall; members get straight in.
The in-app AI generates for them, funded by their subscription. You keep your margin.
Illustrative walkthrough. Build your own live version free in minutes.
You're not on your own
When you hit the part that makes most people quit, you can pull a Starborn expert right into your project to elevate the work and push it over the line — without leaving the workspace.
Start building freeWe'd rather you succeed than sign up. Here's where Starborn shines — and where it doesn't.
No. AI is woven into everything you build — no keys, no setup, no usage limits to manage. For features your users trigger, the AI is billed to them or funded by their subscription, so your costs don't balloon as you grow.
When you turn on AI billing for your subscription, part of each payment becomes that subscriber's monthly AI budget. Their in-app AI usage runs on it instead of your account, and you keep a guaranteed minimum percentage of every payment as your cut.
No. Starborn handles the Stripe products, webhooks, checkout, paywall, and customer portal for you. You set a price; we run the billing rails. (Today that's one recurring plan per app.)
Yes. Publish in one click to a free Starborn address, or connect a custom domain. Either way it's a hosted production app — there's nothing to deploy or migrate.
Yes — no credit card required. You only set up payouts when you're ready to charge your own users real money.
You can bring a Starborn human expert directly into your project to help with the hard parts, right inside the workspace.
Free to start. Live in minutes. Yours to monetize.
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