Subscord's answer

• Next.js
• React
• Stripe
• Discord APIs
• AWS SES/S3
• PostHog

tryinstance's answer:

Instance is built as a secure multi-tenant cloud platform using modern progressive web app technology, real-time messaging and voice infrastructure, Stripe Connect, role-based access control, push notification and email delivery systems, REST APIs, webhooks, bot events, and AI-assisted operations. These technologies are integrated around one identity, payment, and permissions model so changes in commerce or membership state are reflected across the product immediately.

Subscord's answer

• Privacy and control: you keep custody; crypto stays crypto.
• Lower fees and no platform rake.
• Flexibility: crypto and cards in one place without friction.
• Fast setup: invite the bot, paste wallets, create products.
• Robust automation: roles, renewals, emails, and a clean dashboard.
• Transparent pricing with no hidden gotchas.

tryinstance's answer:

Choose Instance when the community is the business, not just a conversation layer. Operators get their own domain, brand, member accounts, Stripe relationship, permissions, storefronts, push subscriptions, email reach, and automation. Prospects can inspect public areas before registering, buy access inside the experience, and enter with the correct role immediately. In measured cold-traffic tests, this lower-friction path has converted two to three times better than the alternatives it replaced. Instance also unifies commerce, communication, access, moderation, and AI operations, eliminating the fragmented stack and platform dependence common to marketplace, course, and chat products.

Subscord's answer

• Discord server owners who monetize access/roles.
• Crypto/Web3 communities, trading/alpha groups, creators, education, and gaming communities.
• Teams with international audiences who need both crypto and card options.

tryinstance's answer:

Instance is built for serious operators whose revenue, retention, or customer experience depends on community. That includes creators, educators, membership businesses, agencies, professional networks, SaaS companies, paid groups, clubs, and organizations selling access, expertise, content, software, or services. It is especially valuable for teams that want a branded product on their own domain, direct access to members, native payments and permissions, and the ability to automate operations without surrendering the customer relationship to a third-party platform.

Subscord's answer

• I was frustrated by mandatory KYC, high fees, and custodial lock‑in.
• Subscord lets you accept crypto directly to your wallet (and optionally cards via Stripe).
• It automates role management and renewals from a streamlined dashboard.
• It’s already helped communities process over $200,000.

tryinstance's answer:

Instance began with a simple conclusion: an internet business should not have to rent its customers from the platform that hosts its community. Existing products split identity, payments, access, messaging, notifications, moderation, and automation across disconnected services, while the operator remains dependent on someone else's account system and rules. Instance was built from the ownership model outward. The result is a complete branded application where discovery, purchase, access, engagement, retention, and automation operate as one system controlled by the business.

Subscord's answer

• mandocharts
• RootX
• Market Surfers
• AO Trading
• Artravip

tryinstance's answer:

Instance works with a growing group of community operators and internet businesses. Many run private or paid communities, so customer names and operating metrics are not disclosed publicly.

Subscord's answer

• I built Subscord so server owners get paid directly to their own wallets with no KYC.
• You can also accept card payments via Stripe.
• We take 0% platform fees (only third‑party fees apply: ~1% for the crypto service and Stripe’s standard fees).
• Supports 100+ cryptocurrencies (including BTC Lightning).
• Discord‑native automation: auto role assignment, renewals, email reminders, manual subs, team access.
• Store and checkout pages for both subscriptions and one‑time products.
• Proven with over $200,000 processed.

tryinstance's answer:

Instance gives a business its own branded community app on its own domain, with the entire member relationship under one operating system. Public community previews, one-tap purchasing, Stripe-connected access, roles, storefronts, chat, voice, push notifications, email, moderation, analytics, webhooks, bots, and AI operations all share the same identity and permission model. A payment can grant access immediately, an announcement can reach the app, phone, and inbox, and automation can manage the community through the same controls used by the product. Instance is not another page inside a marketplace. It is the infrastructure for owning and operating the business directly.