Guides
Billing guides for small developer products
Deep, practical guides for charging for side projects, selling access without auth, installing shadcn payment components, and running your own payment layer.
Side project billingUpdated Jul 7, 2026
Billing for side projects
A practical guide to charging for small developer products with checkout, wallets, credits, webhooks, and billing UI handled by vantezzen/pay.
For developers who have a useful tool and want to charge for it without spending a week wiring billing infrastructure.
No-auth monetizationUpdated Jul 7, 2026
Monetize a tool without user accounts
Use anonymous credit wallets and recovery codes to sell access to small tools without adding a full auth system first.
For tools where forcing signup would add more friction than value, but users still need to buy and restore access.
Payment UIUpdated Jul 7, 2026
shadcn payment components
Install payment UI into your own codebase: balances, purchase dialogs, wallet recovery, credit gates, and feature gates for developer products.
For shadcn users who want billing UI that can be installed, inspected, themed, and changed instead of imported as a black-box widget.
Self-hosted billingUpdated Jul 7, 2026
Self-hosted payment layer
Run one small payment layer for all your side projects while Stripe or Polar keeps handling checkout, invoices, taxes, and payment methods.
For developers who want payment infrastructure they can run, inspect, and reuse across multiple apps.