Back real people. Put your name on it.
Reach the makers and doers who share their work here, and the grown-ups around them, in a place with no ads, no tracking, and nothing to feel uneasy about. One plain line in our footers, and everyone sees you helped keep TYVM free.
Three reasons, and a difference.
Trust
The tracking isn’t built, because the product is used by minors. Yours is the one placement where nobody was followed here.
Audience
Young makers and doers, and the adults around them: parents, teachers, scout leaders, the neighbor who bought the bracelets. And, from launch, people who run their page from their own AI assistant.
Context
Moments of gratitude and making, not moments of friction. Nobody’s being interrupted, because there’s nothing to interrupt.
This is not advertising.
It’s underwriting, public-radio style, and the difference is technical, not cosmetic.
Pay what you want, from $1 a month.
For now we send one invoice a year. There’s no checkout, and nothing is charged until your line has been read and can run.
Nobody’s priced out
A local shop at $5 and a technology company at $2,000 are in the same rotation, on the same terms. There’s no enterprise tier, because there’s only one kind.
Nobody buys the whole thing
Once there are four or more underwriters, no one can hold more than 30% of the paid rotation. Presence is for sale; exclusivity isn’t, at any price.
Early is worth more, and we’ll say so
As TYVM grows, the same $50 buys a smaller slice of a bigger number. Early is cheaper, and we’d rather tell you than let you find out.
Illustrative, using an example rotation. The live calculator uses real numbers, and only appears once a few underwriters are in, so no one’s amount can be worked out from it.
What $5 to $50 a month buys.
The kids who buy your paints, strings and stickers are making things worth paying for. Here’s what backing the place they show it gets you.
Your name and one plain line
Something like “Your shop’s name, art supplies and classes on Main Street since 1987.” It runs in our footers and emails, the same line for everyone who sees it. Never on a young person’s own page.
A real share, early
Your share is what you pay against what everyone pays. While the list is short, the first names get an outsized share. As it grows, the same amount buys a smaller slice, and we’d rather say so now.
Your name on a short list
We publish who underwrites us. A person reads your line before it runs, and nothing goes up until we’ve both agreed the wording.
We won’t put a percentage on the early share yet. A live number only appears once there are at least three underwriters, so nobody’s amount can be worked out from it.
Your name and your mission. Never a product.
A lot of credit unions already teach young people about money, and we’d be glad to talk. Because a line from a financial institution sits close to a young person’s first earnings, the rules are tighter, and we’d rather tell you before you write a word.
What it would be
- Your name and one mission sentence
- On our marketing pages only
- Read by a person before it runs
What it never is
- An account, a loan, a card or a rate
- Inside the app, or in emails to families
- Any say over which payment app a family uses
Nothing runs yet. Our standard keeps financial products away from young people, and it is still being set. Until it is, no credit union or bank line runs anywhere, and nothing is charged.
Who underwrites TYVM.
The list is published on this page once the first underwriter signs. Today every footer line is our own. Yours could be the first.
And where it never will.
Yes
- The footer of our emails
- The footer of the app, where creators work
- Our marketing pages
Never
- A creator’s own page
- Anywhere in the grown-up consent flow
- Anything that looks like it came from a creator
A visitor on somebody’s page came for that person. Renting their footer would be taking a cut with extra steps, and we don’t take a cut.
What your line has to clear.
Published up front, so you can decide before writing a word. It’s tighter than an ad network’s, on purpose: a thirteen-year-old sees the app footer every day, so the test is whether it could run in a school newsletter.
No alcohol, tobacco or vaping. No gambling or betting. No dating. No financial products, credit or crypto. Nothing with its own age gate. Nothing designed to alarm. One line, plain text, no superlatives we’d have to verify.
A person reads every line and records that they did. Change the words or the link afterwards and the approval is dropped automatically, until somebody reads it again.
There’s no checkout yet, and that’s on purpose.
The first few of these should be done by a person anyway: somebody has to read the line. Once the inbox is open, tell us who you are and roughly what you had in mind, and we’ll sort it out.
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