TYVM is a simple, friendly page for anything you make or do, and a way for people to say thank you. It’s built so that young people can use it safely too, which quietly shapes every choice we make.
No ads, no tracking, nothing about you for sale. You’re the point, not the inventory.
Support is a thank-you, not a checkout. A page with nothing for sale is still a great page.
Safety isn’t a setting you hunt for. It’s built into how the whole thing works.
We’ll publish the bill, we say what isn’t decided, and we won’t oversell what a feature does.
A place where a kid selling friendship bracelets, or a dog walker, or an artist, or anyone at all, could share their work and be thanked for it. Without being tracked, upsold, or quietly skimmed from.
Most of the web wants to turn that moment into data. We wanted to leave it alone, and just be the friendly link in the middle. That’s the whole product, and it’s why the hardest decisions here are the ones about what not to build.
TYVM is a small for-profit company. Todd Belcher, founder.
Right now TYVM is funded by its founder. The plan is to be funded by the people who use it. Nobody buys a say: not an underwriter, not an investor, not the biggest supporter.
AI is part of how TYVM can exist and stay safe. Here’s exactly where, in plain words, because you deserve to know.
AI helps spot problems in words and pictures. Anything it hides goes to a person, and nothing it does is permanent.
TYVM does not use what’s on your page to train AI.
On a young person’s page, AI crawlers are asked to stay away by default. If it’s switched on, their grown-up is told. It’s a request that well-behaved crawlers follow, not a fence, and we’d rather say so.
Connect the assistant you already use, and with your yes it can help build your page. Ready when the app opens on November 1. It gets the same rules as you: it acts only where you allowed it, going live is still your button, and it can’t open a gate a grown-up closed. Every assistant gets the same rules, and none gets a better seat.
Checking content with AI isn’t free, so we set limits, and never on checking a young person’s page. We will publish what it costs us. What TYVM costs to run →
A lot of our code is written by AI, with people directing and reviewing it. It’s unusual, and we’d rather tell you than not.
It’s short for “thank you very much.” The three stars are our little mark: gratitude, a bit of sparkle, and deliberately not a rating. It’s not three out of five. It just means you’re great.
The questions about TYVM itself are here. Every page carries its own, too, and they are all listed below.