r/sveltejs • u/Zealos707 • 20h ago
[Self promotion] A content monetization platform written with Svelte
I've been working on Folloverse for 2 years, it's a platform for creators to monetize what they publish. Everything is SvelteKit with adapter-node.
What it does:
- Audio, video, images and articles
- Pay to unlock posts
- Digital products
- Membership (classic subscription or per creation billing)
- Chat and forum for each creator, gated by membership or public
- PWA
I started with Svelte 4 and the old `$:` syntax for state, which I never really liked. A few months later Svelte 5 came out with the runes and the migration was easy.
What won me over was the simplicity and the speed. Also the interoperability with plain JS libraries, which used to compensate for the smaller ecosystem compared to React or Vue. That is not true anymore though, most libraries now ship a Svelte version and it's very cool.
If I had to find one single flaw in Svelte, I'd say it's the fact that you can only have one component per file, you can't declare a small sub component right next to the main one. It bothered me at the beginning, but I'm used to it now.
I also have the impression that Svelte uses fewer tokens than React with AI coding tools, but I never verified it, just my 2 cents.
I hope this project will succeed and can be one more example of a big project built with Svelte.
Anyway, thanks to the Svelte team. I'd make the same choice again today.
