Keep 100% Revenue.
Grow Your Business.
Skip the Middlemen.
We're Not AppSumo.
Let's Talk About AppSumo for a Second
You list your product there. Maybe you’re desperate for users. Maybe you just want to “get traction.”
They sell it as a “lifetime deal” for $49.
You’re excited. 1,000 sales! $49,000!
Then the check comes.
$14,700.
Because they took 70%. Plus fees. Plus payment processing. Plus whatever else they decided to charge.
So now you have 1,000 lifetime customers.
Forever.
You owe them updates. Support. Features. Bug fixes. Hosting.
Forever.
For $14.70 per customer. One time.
Do the Math
Hosting costs you $2 per user per month. That’s $24 per year.
You’re in the red after 7 months.
And you still have 993 more months of “lifetime” to go.
This is why products die. This is why founders burn out. This is why you see those “RIP” posts on Twitter.
The marketplace already made their money. They’re fine.
You’re drowning.
But How Do You Make Money?
That $20-$100 listing fee.
A few community network services we may introduce in future.
Some founders may be kind-hearted to let us become an affiliate.
That’s it.
We need enough founders to list to make this work. But we don’t need to take YOUR money to survive.
Our success comes from volume, not extraction.
For Buyers, Here's Why This Matters
Ever bought a lifetime deal and watched the product die?
Yeah. We all have.
Products on ToolSalsa are priced to survive. Founders can actually afford to support them. They’re not trapped in the lifetime deal death spiral.
When you buy here, you’re supporting products that will actually exist next year.
The ToolSalsa Model
Charge a tiny listing fee.
Let founders price sustainably.
Stay out of the transaction.
Enable founders to actually support their products.
Build an ecosystem that lasts.
This Isn't About Being Nice
This is about building something that actually works.
Extractive marketplaces create a graveyard of dead products. That’s bad for everyone.
We’re building a place where products survive. Where founders thrive. Where buyers get tools that last.
Revolutionary? No.
Just honest.