Community currency · no cash value
Why makespends exist
Makespends put a small cost on attention. That makes mass spam, cold-message floods, fake voting, and drive-by harassment expensive—while moving value toward the people whose work creates the community.
Yes — every member can purchase them
Buy makespends in your Wallet
Choose a pack, then complete payment in hosted Stripe Checkout. Browser purchases add processing and applicable tax but no app-store fee. Device marketplace fees apply only when required for an in-app purchase.
You can also earn makespends. They stay inside Makespend, have no cash value, and cannot purchase off-site goods or services.
How to earn
- 1,000 after phone verification
- 1,000 more after activity in each of four qualifying referral weeks
- 1,000 for the referrer when that four-week referral qualifies
- Recipient shares from eligible likes, comments, tips, chatroom entry, and poll votes
- Promotional rewards and daily activities shown in the Wallet
Common costs
- Build a chatroom
- 200 MS
- First message to a member
- 50 MS
- Public Square text/photo/video
- 50 / 100 / 200 MS
- Reply to a Public Square post
- 10 MS
- Downvote
- 20 MS
- Create / vote / bump a poll
- 50 / 10 / 20 MS
- Maker membership (30 days)
- 500 MS
Points are different
Makespends are what you spend inside the platform. Points measure community contribution and determine rank. They cannot be spent. Every member appears on the all-member board; Creators, Stores, and Service Providers also compete in their own boards. A reply to your Public Square post earns you 10 points.
See level names, rankings + polls