From the Founder

Digital creators shouldn't have to give away 10-15% of every sale just to use a payment button.

I'm Ayesha — a designer turned developer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I've been building and selling digital products since before I wrote a single line of code. Mandala coloring books, activity books, composition notebooks — all listed on Amazon KDP under pen names. I watched platforms like Gumroad take 10% or Stan Store charge $29/month before a creator even makes their first dollar. On top of that, neither platform offers built-in server-side flash sales, and both lock out millions of global creators who can't access traditional banking.

When I started building SaaS products, I hit the same wall from a different angle. No Stripe. No PayPal. Bangladesh isn't on the supported countries list for most payment processors that indie hackers take for granted. I got rejected by LemonSqueezy. Creem required a business email I didn't have. Every platform that claimed to "support international founders" had an asterisk that meant "not you."

dropanda is my answer to both problems.

Flash sales work because urgency is real. Crypto payments work because borders aren't. Creators keep 95% because that's what the math allows when you don't have a bloated team or a San Francisco office to fund.

I built this for the digital creator in Lagos, Dhaka, Manila, or anywhere else who has something valuable to sell and deserves to keep what they earn.

— Ayesha
Building in public from Bangladesh