AI and modern production tools have made it dramatically cheaper to make something great — a record, a book, a film — outside a studio system. What hasn't changed is who controls the road from creator to audience. A handful of corporate giants still own that distribution chokepoint, and they price accordingly. We built IndieStarlight to close that gap: remove the barriers between independent creators and the people who want their work, and increase the economic payback to everyone who actually made it possible — the creator, the curator, and the fan.
If you're tired of watching marketing spend and a corporate cut controlled by a handful of billionaires eat the majority of what you earn before it ever reaches you — you're not alone, and you're not wrong to be tired of it. IndieStarlight is a distribution network built for the people using it, not a platform optimized to extract value for shareholders. Join us for a new, people-led distribution network, powered by individuals instead of a mega-corporation.
The best way to find new music, books, and film has never been a black-box algorithm deciding what you're allowed to see — it's a person you trust telling you about something they love. IndieStarlight is built for that: a low-barrier way to interact directly with the creators making the work, and for the curators and communities who help discover tomorrow's stars before anyone else does.
What this means depends on where you sit — and we built it with all three of you in mind.
Keep more of what you earn, own the relationship with your audience, and stop paying a mega-corporation's marketing tax just to be found.
Get paid fairly — and provably — for the discovery work you already do, instead of doing it for free to build someone else's platform.
An end to being spoon-fed whatever a corporation decided would keep you scrolling the longest, and a direct way to support the people actually making what you love.