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Cover art reading Take it with you for the Privacy category. Privacy

Own your audience, and keep it

Followers you cannot export are followers you are only borrowing. What real ownership looks like on Melodreams.

Admin 2 min read
Cover art reading $3.99, no asterisks for the Creators category. Creators

$3.99 and no asterisks

The plain economics of a page you own, and why a small honest price beats a free product that has to make its money off you some other way.

Admin 2 min read
Cover art reading One page, many rooms for the Craft category. Craft

Designing frames: one profile, many identities

How a single Melodreams page can show up as a casino marquee, a terminal, or a channel, and the typography that keeps it all honest.

Admin 3 min read
Cover art reading The page is the point for the Product category. Product

The link in bio is dead. Long live the page.

A stack of links was a workaround for tiny bios. Your page can be the place people came to see, not a hallway they pass through.

Admin 2 min read
Cover art reading No ads. Ever. for the Company category. Company

Why we will never run ads

Every free page has a price, and someone always pays it. Here is the plain case for charging a few dollars instead.

Admin 2 min read
Cover art reading We are open for the Company category. Company

We opened the Journal

Today we started a blog. Here is what it is, why we bothered, and what you can expect to find on it.

Admin 2 min read