Start here — twenty seconds, heart to heart. If you've got an idea, don't sit on it. And know this: we're not here to rush you. This is your dream, at your pace, and we'll build it together, step by step.
Jesse ReyesFounder of MadMaker
Turn an idea in your head into a product people can buy.
MadMaker is a platform for makers. Design your product with your MadMaker Assistant, get matched to a manufacturer who can make it, get your own store page, and collect payments — all under one simple monthly subscription.
Enter their referral code when you join and they earn 20% of your subscription for your first year. When you join, you get your own code too — share MadMaker and earn the same way.
Get your product idea set up free — no subscription to start. You only pay when you're ready to move forward with it.
Tapping the button opens your email app addressed to madmaker210@yahoo.com — just tell us your name and what you want to make, and press send.
See how MadMaker takes an idea from your head to a product people can buy.
No idea yet? No problem — that's a fine place to start. These are real things people are making and selling with MadMaker. Tap one and it drops straight into the join form up top, or hit Surprise me and let one pick you.
Four steps take you from “I've got an idea” to a product that's made, listed, and selling.
Sit down with your MadMaker Assistant and work the product out: labels, packaging, formulas, and specs — everything a manufacturer needs to build it right.
We connect you with a manufacturer who can actually make your product, so you're not cold-calling factories and hoping for a reply.
Your product gets its own page on MadMaker with your photos, your story, and your price — no separate website to build or pay for.
Customers pay online through your page. You make the product, MadMaker handles the checkout.
MadMaker's founder didn't start with a pitch deck. He started by making his own products this exact way — designed with your MadMaker Assistant, matched to manufacturers, and put up for sale. These are real.
$7.99 · 12 oz bottle · Heat 4/10
A Cajun wing and seafood sauce that started as an idea at the kitchen table. The label, the artwork, and the blend were worked out with your MadMaker Assistant — then it was bottled and put up for sale.
Two blends · 8 oz shaker jars
Two seasoning blends for the grill — Blanco and Rojo — under the El Twety Bird label. Both were designed with your MadMaker Assistant, label and all, and matched to a spice company to blend them.
Custom knife · Designed with your MadMaker Assistant
A custom kitchen and camp knife drawn up with your MadMaker Assistant — the shape, the handle, the etched name on the blade — then matched to a knife maker to bring it off the paper.
Step 1 · Product
Work out what you're making, what it costs to make, and what you'll charge — before you spend anything on production.
Labels, packaging, formulas, and specs — everything a manufacturer needs to build your product right, worked out with you step by step.
See your per-unit cost from the manufacturer quote, your retail price, and what you keep on every sale after MadMaker's 3% — plus how many units you need to sell to break even. Try it below.
Try your own numbers. MadMaker keeps 3% of each sale; what you keep per unit is your price minus the 3% and your unit cost.
$49 one-time
Before you spend money making your product, find out if it can sell. You get a short, straight report: who else sells something like it and what they charge, who buys it, what you should charge, and an honest verdict.
Agree when you join and a market analysis for your product is added to your setup — $49 one-time, due when you move forward. No analysis, no charge.
Join and add the analysis →Once your product is designed and your numbers work, we match you with a manufacturer who can actually make it — no cold-calling factories and hoping for a reply.
Your per-unit cost comes from their real quote, so the numbers in the calculator are the numbers you launch with.
Step 2 · Setup
Join the waitlist and get your product idea set up free — no subscription to start. When you want to move forward with the idea — design it, get it made, and sell it — that's when the fee applies.
Setup: Free — no subscription to start.
When you move forward: founding members $19/month locked in — regular price $27.99/month.
The subscription is the base. Then everything else is your choice — shown upfront, before you spend anything. You decide what you want to spend after the subscription. Nothing hidden, nothing you didn't pick.
$19/month founding · $27.99/month regular
Free setup to start — no subscription until you move forward. When you do, the subscription covers design help from your MadMaker Assistant, matching with a manufacturer, your own store page, and online payments. That's the one fee everyone pays.
$50 setup + $10/month extra
Want an app version of your customer website too? Add it only if you want it. Founding members with the app pay $29/month total ($19 + $10) after the one-time $50 setup. Regular members pay $37.99/month. Don't want it? You don't pay for it.
You set it — $5/day to start
You pick your own per-day marketing budget and can raise it, lower it, or pause it to $0 anytime. $5/day is a suggested starting point — about $150/month. MadMaker charges 15% of ad spend to run your advertising (at $5/day, that's $22.50/month, $5.75/day all-in), and you agree to that 15% before marketing starts. No agreement, no marketing charge.
3% of sales
When your product sells, MadMaker keeps 3% — that's it. You see your per-unit cost from the manufacturer quote, your retail price, and what you keep per unit after the 3%, shown plainly before you launch. No other cut hiding underneath.
20% for the first year
Every maker gets a personal referral code when they join — same program influencers use. Share MadMaker with other makers and earn 20% of their subscription for their first 12 months, tracked by your code, click by click. Five founding referrals cover your own $19/month.
And for your own store, you can turn on store referrals: your customers share your code, and earn a % of each sale they bring in — you set the rate, 10–20% suggested.
$99 one-time
Make it a real business. Guided help with your LLC filing, EIN, sales tax permit, business bank account, and insurance quotes — including product liability for food and skin products. The $99 is MadMaker's guided setup fee; state filing fees and insurance premiums are paid by you directly to the state or provider — never bundled, never hidden. Only if you pick it.
Nothing hidden. Nothing you didn't pick. Subscription first. App add-on, marketing budget, and the 3% on sales — all optional or tied to a sale, all shown upfront. If you didn't choose it, you don't pay for it.
$99 one-time — Business Setup
Selling a product is one thing. Having a real business behind it — an LLC, a tax ID, a business bank account, insurance — is what protects you and everything you've built. Business Setup walks you through every step, in order, and tracks where you are. It's optional: only if you pick it.
How the money works — no surprises. The $99 is MadMaker's one-time guided setup fee, and that's the only part MadMaker charges. State filing fees and insurance premiums are paid by you directly to the state or the provider, and they're listed here as typical ranges — never bundled into the $99 and never hidden. One more thing, said plainly: MadMaker may earn a referral fee from formation or insurance partners when a maker signs up through MadMaker. That costs you nothing extra.
MadMaker guides and tracks the steps — it is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Filings are done by you, or by a licensed partner you choose.
Once the basics are in place, these are the services most makers need next. MadMaker recommends each one and connects you with them as part of your Business Setup guidance — we're still lining these partners up, so there are no sign-up links here yet.
Said upfront: MadMaker may earn a referral fee from these partners when a maker signs up through MadMaker. That fee is paid by the partner — it costs you nothing extra.
The button fills in the join form at the top of the page noting you want the Business Setup add-on, and takes you to it.
Every maker moves through the same six steps, from first idea to getting paid. MadMaker tracks where you are and what your next move is.
Step 3 · Website
Your product gets its own store page on MadMaker — and the tools to promote it are built right in.
Your product gets its own page with your photos, your story, and your price — no separate website to build or pay for. Customers check out and pay right on the page.
$50 setup + $10/month
Want an app version of your customer website too? Add it only if you want it — $50 one-time setup, then $10/month on top of your subscription.
Set your own per-day marketing budget — $5/day is a suggested start — and raise it, lower it, or pause it to $0 anytime. MadMaker runs your ads for 15% of ad spend, and you agree to that 15% before anything starts.
Free with your subscription. Build your own ads right here — write your headline, set your price, pick a layout and colors, and watch it come together as you type. A Pro version with more templates and sizes is coming later.
A live taste of the designer. In your MadMaker account you can add your product photo, download the finished ad as a PNG ready to post, and save your designs.
For wings, shrimp & seafood boils.
Step 4 · Sales
Customers pay online through your page. MadMaker keeps 3% of each sale — and you see your cost, your price, and what you keep per unit before you launch.
Customers check out and pay online through your MadMaker page. You make the product, MadMaker handles the checkout — no separate payment setup to figure out.
MadMaker keeps 3% only when you sell. On a $7.99 sale that's $0.24 — the rest is yours before your unit cost. No other cut hiding underneath.
Your per-unit cost, retail price, and margin after the 3% are worked out on the Product page before you launch — so there are no surprises here either.
Try the calculator →Turn referrals on for your own store and every customer gets a referral code and link for your products. When someone buys through that code, the customer who shared it earns a percentage of the sale — paid by you, at a rate you set.
Suggested range is 10–20% of the sale. Set it, change it, or pause it anytime — it's your store and your margin. Try the demo below, or see the full breakdown on Refer & Earn.
How store referrals work →Refer & Earn brings new makers to MadMaker — the sharer earns 20% of a subscription for a year, paid by MadMaker.
Store referrals bring new buyers to your store — the sharer earns a % of the sale that you choose, paid from that sale. One grows the platform, the other grows your sales.
Demo — not your live account. Every maker gets a sale tracker in their store. In your live store, each sale is recorded automatically the moment a customer checks out — units, gross sales, MadMaker's 3%, and what you keep, all in one place. Try it here: log a few sales and watch your numbers and your goal move. Nothing here is real earnings.
No sales logged yet — your most recent sales will show here.
This is your store, your call. Turn referrals on, set the percentage your customers earn when a sale comes through their code, and see exactly what they earn and what you keep on every sale. In your live store, each customer's code and every sale through it is tracked automatically — same as your sale tracker above.
Share it like: “Use my code SAUCE-FRIEND — I earn 15% when you buy.” Every sale through it is credited to that customer.
The referral % comes out of the sale — you only pay it when a referred sale actually happens. No sale through a code, no referral cost.
A sauce, a seasoning, a knife, something nobody's thought of yet — if you've got the idea, MadMaker is being built to take it the rest of the way. Join the waitlist, get set up free, and be a founding member. No subscription until you move forward — and no surprise fees after it. Everything else is your choice, shown upfront.
Same free join form as at the top of the page — use whichever you reach first. Tell us who you are and what you want to make — we'll set up your idea free. No subscription to start; you only pay when you move forward.
Tapping the button opens your email app addressed to madmaker210@yahoo.com — just tell us your name and what you want to make, and press send.
Step 5 · Refer & Earn
Every influencer, creator, and maker gets a personal referral code and link. When someone joins with your code, you earn 20% of their subscription for their entire first year — tracked click by click, signup by signup. Makers also get referrals for their own store, at a percentage they set themselves. And now there's a third way to earn: Affiliate Storefronts — build one storefront from products offered by multiple makers.
You earn for bringing in a maker.
Who shares: influencers, creators, and makers.
Who acts: a new maker joins MadMaker.
Sharer earns: 20% of that maker's subscription.
For how long: their first 12 months.
Rate set by: MadMaker — 20% for everyone.
You earn for sending a buyer to one maker's store.
Who shares: a maker's own customers.
Who acts: a shopper buys that maker's product.
Sharer earns: a % of that sale.
For how long: as long as that maker keeps store referrals on.
Rate set by: the maker. Suggested 10–20%.
You earn by building one storefront from products offered by multiple makers — no product of your own, no inventory to carry.
Who builds: anyone who joins the Affiliate Storefronts program.
Who acts: a shopper buys through the storefront.
Affiliate earns: the commission each maker set for that product.
Who fulfills: the maker ships each order.
Rate set by: each maker, product by product.
You get a unique code and a personal link — for example getmadmaker.com/?ref=MAD-YOURNAME. Post it in videos, bios, podcasts, and posts.
Every click on your link is counted. Every maker who joins with your code is tagged to you, so there's no guessing who you brought in.
You earn 20% of that maker's subscription for their first 12 months — paid monthly. After month 12, that maker is fully MadMaker's; bring in new makers and keep earning.
Want a code? Join the waitlist and write “Influencer code” in the “What do you want to make?” field, or ask the MadMaker Assistant — we'll set your code up.
You don't need to be an influencer. The moment you join MadMaker, you get your own referral code in your account — no application, no extra fee.
Share it with other makers — at markets, in maker groups, on your own socials. When they join with your code, you earn the same 20% of their subscription for their first year.
It's a real way to offset your own subscription: refer 5 founding makers and that's $19/month coming back to you — your own membership covered.
That's your link — post it anywhere. Anyone who joins through it is tagged to your code automatically.
No spreadsheets, no “trust me.” The code does the documenting.
See what 20% adds up to. Pick a plan, set how many makers you bring in, and watch your monthly and first-year totals.
The 20% is on the subscription only. MadMaker's 3% of sales is separate and is never taken from referrers or makers' referral earnings.
Demo — example numbers only, not money owed to anyone. This is how referrals are documented. In the live dashboard, every click on a partner link and every signup with a partner code is recorded automatically under that code. The two example rows below are samples to show how it works. Try the tracker: add a partner, log clicks and signups, and see exactly what each code would earn at 20%.
| Partner | Code | Clicks | Signups | Per month | First year | Log |
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No partners yet — add an influencer or a maker above and their clicks, signups, and earnings will be documented here, code by code.
The platform program above brings makers to MadMaker. This one is for your store. Turn it on, give your customers a code to share, and when someone buys through that code, the customer who shared it earns a percentage of the sale. You pick the percentage — and you only pay it when a referred sale actually happens.
Set the percentage you'd offer your own customers and see the split on every sale. Try the suggested 10–20% range and find the rate where sharing is worth it for them and the margin still works for you.
Worked example at the defaults: a $20.00 product at 15% pays the sharer $3.00 a sale. You keep $8.40 after the $3.00 referral, MadMaker's $0.60 (3%), and your $8.00 unit cost. The referral only comes out of sales the code actually brought in.
Third way to earn
This is different from both referral programs above. Subscription referrals pay 20% for bringing in a maker. Store referrals pay for sending a buyer to one maker's store. Affiliate Storefronts let a person build one storefront from products offered by multiple makers — and earn the commission each maker set on the products they pick.
Join the program below to be part of Affiliate Storefronts as it rolls out. The example further down is a Demo — it shows how a sale would split, not a live multi-maker checkout.
Demo example only — not a live storefront or live earnings. Pick a theme, set a product price, and move the maker-set commission slider. You'll see what the affiliate earns, MadMaker's 3%, and what the maker receives before product and shipping costs.
A storefront for the taco-truck line — sauces and seasonings from different makers, in one place.
Check the verified example: at the defaults — a $20.00 product at a 20% maker-set commission — the affiliate earns $4.00, MadMaker keeps $0.60 (3%), and the maker receives $15.40 before product and shipping costs.
Either button fills in the join form at the top of the page and takes you to it — joining the Affiliate Storefronts program starts there.
Tapping opens your email app addressed to madmaker210@yahoo.com — write your question there and press send, and the MadMaker Assistant will take it from there. Or tap a topic above for an instant answer right here.
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