Find the gap, own a share of what fills it

A stock library learns what people want from what they buy, which only ever tells it about pictures it already had. The search that found nothing — the one that said exactly what was missing — goes unrewarded. Here it is the most valuable thing a visitor can do, so it is paid.

How it works

1. Sign in with Google or your phone number. No password, nothing to remember.
2. Search. When nothing fits, press Make this for me.
3. Three takes render, the sharpest is enlarged, checked and listed for everyone.
4. You are its originator. Every time anyone licenses it, your share of the price is credited to you, on a line you can read.

What you earn

A fixed share of the price of every paid licence of the asset, whoever buys it and however many times. The share is on every page that offers it. A standard licence of an image is $9, so each sale of a picture you asked for credits you a share of $9; an extended licence is four times the price and credits four times as much.

What does not count

Nothing that no money stands behind. A free licence, a licence you issue to yourself and a payment nothing could verify are all recorded as use of your picture, so you can see them, and credited at $0.00. A number on your balance is always a sale.

Every sale, itemised

Your Earnings page lists each picture you originated and every licence behind the balance: the date, the price, the share and the amount. A licence is credited once — the database refuses a second line for the same sale — and each credit is written to an append-only audit record in the same moment as the licence itself.

Leaving

Delete your account from the Earnings page and your name, email and phone number are erased. The sales stay in the books, attached to nobody.