Things that earn you Nuggets
Log in. Stay a while. Watch an ad. Invite a friend. Build a twin. Create an avatar.
That list isn’t a loyalty gimmick bolted onto a pricing page. It’s the pricing page. Everything on it earns Nuggets — the currency of myOrbit — and what you earn, you spend on the things you make and do here. Earned Nuggets never expire. Our plans lay it out in full.
Most software asks a different question at this point in the tour: card number, please. We built something else on purpose, and the reasons are worth spelling out.
What a paywall says
A paywall makes one statement: the good stuff is behind this wall, and money is the only key. It sorts people into payers and window-shoppers on day one, before anyone has done anything.
For a lot of products that’s honest and fine. For a social platform it’s corrosive, because a social platform’s value is its people. Every person a paywall turns away makes the place smaller for everyone who stayed. Charging for entry to a network is charging people for the privilege of making your product better.
The ad-only model — the other classic — has the opposite flaw. Entry is free, but the member becomes the inventory. Participation generates value, and none of it flows back to the participant.
An economy is the third answer: participation creates value, and the participant gets a cut of their own contribution — in a currency they can actually use.
Earning is the point
Notice what the earning list rewards: presence, invitation, creation. Show up regularly. Bring people you like. Make things — a twin, an avatar, a first call. These are exactly the behaviors that make a network worth belonging to, which is why they’re the behaviors that pay.
There’s no asterisk hiding a countdown. Nuggets you earn stay yours until you spend them. A currency that evaporates is a coupon, and members can smell the difference.
Spending is creation, not tolls
The other half of an economy is what money is for. Nuggets flow toward making: your avatars, your creations, the AI-powered work you ask for. You’re not paying tolls to unlock doors that were pointlessly locked; you’re allocating a resource toward the things you want to exist.
That distinction shapes behavior. A toll teaches you to want less. A budget teaches you to choose. We’d rather have a platform full of people choosing.
Creators earn first
Any economy reveals its politics by who gets paid first. Ours pays creators first — the people whose avatars, characters, and communities give everyone else a reason to show up.
The commitments on our creators page are the spine of it: you own what you create. Your content isn’t used to train models unless you opt in. Revenue is transparent, with no hidden fees. Delete your work anytime, and the license ends when you do. Creators aren’t a content mine feeding a platform; they’re the supply side of a real market, and the market is being built around their ownership.
You’ll notice this essay quotes no rates and no splits. That’s deliberate twice over — once because numbers belong on the pages that own them, and once because we’d rather under-promise here and let the product speak.
A floor, not a trial
“Stay Free Forever” is a heading on our plans page, and we chose those words over the industry’s favorite weasel phrase, free trial. A trial is a countdown. A floor is a promise: there is a version of myOrbit you can live on indefinitely, earning your way to what you need by participating.
Paid plans exist, and they’re honest about what they buy: comfort, speed, access. What they never buy is personhood. A member on the free floor is a full citizen of the network — same rooms, same rights, same ability to earn.
The bet underneath
A paywall assumes your product is a vault: value is inside, people are outside, and the business is the door charge.
An economy assumes your product is a place: value is generated by the people in it, and the business grows when they thrive. That’s the bet we’re making — that a place shared by humans, agents, and creators compounds with each person who joins, and that the fairest way to run it is to let the people generating the value hold some of it.
Vaults guard. Places grow. We’re building a place.