About MakerPal

Last updated: 07 March 2026

MakerPal is two things in one: a marketplace where independent makers list their products, and a collaboration portal where creators apply to feature them. No ads. No agencies. No upfront fees. Revenue is only shared when a creator drives a real sale. Customers get a 5% discount when they buy through a creator they trust.

MakerPal connects independent makers with creators who genuinely fit their work and makes handmade products discoverable to the customers who actually want them.

No ads. No agencies. No upfront fees. MakerPal only earns when a sale happens.

Every sale falls into one of two categories:

  • Organic sale: a customer finds and buys directly. The maker keeps 90%. MakerPal takes 10%.
  • Creator-connected sale: a customer buys through a creator's link or code. The maker keeps 70%. The creator earns 15%. MakerPal takes 10%. The customer receives a 5% discount.

Makers always control their own pricing. The splits above are calculated from whatever price they set.

By "makers" we mean independent designers, artists, and craftspeople who personally create their products, often in small studios or workshops at home.

Leatherworkers. Ceramicists. Textile artists. Jewellery makers. People who hand-stitch memory bears from meaningful clothing. People who throw pots on a wheel they built themselves.

Not resellers. Not dropshipping. Real creative work that deserves to reach the right people.

The challenge for most of these makers is not quality. It is discovery. Their work is extraordinary. Their audience just has not found them yet. MakerPal is built to fix that without asking them to pay before anything happens.

MakerPal exists to remove structural friction between great products and the right audience.

  • Independent makers, even with loyal customers, often struggle to grow because distribution, ads, and creator campaigns require significant upfront budgets. Money most small makers simply do not have.
  • Small creators often struggle to access genuine early collaborations, even when they care deeply about recommending products that actually fit their world.
  • Customers are increasingly sceptical of sponsored content, but they still want to discover things worth owning from people they trust.

The constraint is rarely product quality. It is the system around discovery and incentives.

MakerPal is an attempt to create a calmer, fairer model: no one pays before value is created, and everyone's share grows when the collaboration works.

Anyone who introduces a new maker to MakerPal earns 1% of that maker's sales for up to 12 months from their first sale.

This applies to customers, creators, other makers, anyone. If the maker you referred joins and starts selling, your share is tracked and paid automatically.

This 1% comes from MakerPal's platform share, never from the maker's revenue. The maker's 90% organic and 70% creator-connected splits do not change.

It is MakerPal's way of rewarding the people who help build the community, and of keeping incentives honest throughout the whole network.

The reason MakerPal exists is simple.

About three years ago, a close friend started out as a content creator. In the beginning it was really hard for her to get collaborations. She was too small for most brands to take seriously, even though her content was genuine and her audience trusted her. She pushed through and now has a decent following. But those early days were a real struggle.

Earlier this year, another friend came up in conversation. A maker with a genuinely great product. The kind of thing that sells itself once the right person finds it. But he could not afford to pay for creator campaigns upfront. Agencies wanted too much. Influencers wanted too much. So the product stayed mostly undiscovered.

Two people. Two different sides of the same broken system. And I had seen both up close.

That second conversation is what made it clear: this is not an isolated problem. There are so many makers with extraordinary products that nobody has found yet. And so many creators who genuinely want to share good things but cannot get a foot in the door early. The system was not built for either of them.

MakerPal is the attempt to fix it. To give small creators a way into real collaborations early, and to give independent makers a way to grow without paying before anything happens.

No upfront fees. No gatekeepers. Just the right match, and a fair share of what it creates.

If you are one of those makers or creators, this is for you.