I'm building a paid community platform in the open, and this stream is where the work happens.The idea is simple. Social media broke when it started optimizing for clicks and outrage. The feeds got loud, the news got dumped, and connecting with people got buried under engagement bait. This is an attempt at the opposite. A paid space with real identity, reverse-chronological feeds, threaded discussion, and no public like counts or follower numbers to perform for. You pay to be in the room, which keeps the bots out and the conversation accountable.In this stream I'm working through how it gets built. The data model, the access gating, how payments tie to membership, the design, and the decisions behind why certain features exist and others never will. No reshare button. No link unfurling. No ranking algorithm deciding what you see. The plan also covers communities other people can run and get paid for, with the platform taking a small cut, so this grows into something bigger than one room.Everything is built in public. Watch the real decisions, the tradeoffs, and the parts that break.Drop questions in the chat. I'll answer what I can while I work.community platform, paid social network, no ads social media, build in public, indie hacker, Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, paid Reddit, online communities, creator economy