Code and starter kits

Developer buyers are the most value-literate audience on this site. They will not pay for code they could write, and they will pay quickly for code that saves them a weekend — which means the commercial value sits in the assembly rather than the source. A starter kit that runs on the first attempt, with the environment documented and the deployment written down, sells repeatedly; the same repository without those does not sell at all.

A paid link has one structural advantage over a marketplace here: a file can be replaced. Buyers of developer tooling expect to receive updates, and delivering v2 behind the same link keeps past buyers current without a second transaction. That makes this a viable channel for something that would otherwise need a package registry and its own release infrastructure.

What it does not provide is discovery. There is no search surface, no review system, no ranking to benefit from. This works for developers who already publish — writing, open-source work, a presence where other developers are — because the link converts an existing audience rather than creating one, and developers decide quickly once they are looking.