Why We Are Not Using Tiers

Tiers are usually introduced with good intentions.

They promise flexibility. They appear to offer choice. In practice, they almost always introduce inequality by design.

Once you create tiers, you create incentives to move people between them. And once that happens, fairness becomes conditional. Visibility, access, or influence slowly shifts towards whoever can afford the higher level.

We didn’t want that trade-off.

Not using tiers removes an entire category of decisions we’d otherwise have to justify. No silver, gold, or premium lanes. No quiet advantages framed as “features”. No sense that participation comes with an asterisk.

Everyone starts in the same place, under the same rules.

That choice limits certain revenue options. We’re comfortable with that. What it gives us in return is clarity — for us, and for anyone choosing to be part of this.

Some things are easier to build when you decide, early on, what you’re not willing to sell.

Let’s not get started on space and advertising!