Your inbox, with a price on it. People pay to send you a note or subscribe weekly. You reply from one inbox, when it suits you, and Stripe pays you. Run it free on your own server, or let us host it: 30 days free.
You know the DMs. "Quick question." "Can I pick your brain?" "Love your work, could you…" Some of them matter. Most get buried, and none of them pay.
Hotly gives those messages a front door with a price on it. Share one link. People pay to send you a note, or subscribe weekly, and you reply from one inbox when it suits you. Want to send something special back? Lock a photo and set the price.
Our first creator (536K on Instagram) shared it once with the fans she already had. 217 of them paid to write to her, across 921 conversations. She banked $22,400 in that stretch: about half from those fans, the rest from brand deals.
Today we're opening it up:
• Hosted: we run it for you. 30 days free, and Stripe's fees are on us • Open source: the whole thing is on GitHub. Run it on your own server, 0% commission
One question for you: if people could pay to write to you, what would they write about?
About Hotly on Product Hunt
“Get paid to answer your DMs. Open source.”
Hotly launched on Product Hunt on October 21st, 2026 and earned 88 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Your inbox, with a price on it. People pay to send you a note or subscribe weekly. You reply from one inbox, when it suits you, and Stripe pays you. Run it free on your own server, or let us host it: 30 days free.
On the analytics side, Hotly competes within Messaging, Open Source, GitHub and Monetization — topics that collectively have 164.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hotly performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hotly?
Hotly was hunted by Saloni Girhepuje. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hotly including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Saloni Girhepuje
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Saloni from Hotly.
You know the DMs. "Quick question." "Can I pick your brain?" "Love your work, could you…" Some of them matter. Most get buried, and none of them pay.
Hotly gives those messages a front door with a price on it. Share one link. People pay to send you a note, or subscribe weekly, and you reply from one inbox when it suits you. Want to send something special back? Lock a photo and set the price.
Our first creator (536K on Instagram) shared it once with the fans she already had. 217 of them paid to write to her, across 921 conversations. She banked $22,400 in that stretch: about half from those fans, the rest from brand deals.
Today we're opening it up:
• Hosted: we run it for you. 30 days free, and Stripe's fees are on us • Open source: the whole thing is on GitHub. Run it on your own server, 0% commission
One question for you: if people could pay to write to you, what would they write about?