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Build a paid newsletter platform
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your paid newsletter platform, and it builds the list, issue archive, scheduled sends, subscriber gate, and payments on your own Stripe account.
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What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a newsletter service with fixed tiers — it’s an AI app builder that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the database, the logic, the screens, the checkout, the archive, and the sending workflows. What you get is a real application that’s yours. You can change it later by asking for changes, and payments run on your own Stripe account. It isn’t a hosted template for your publication.
On this page, that app is a paid newsletter platform. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one built around publishing and paid access.
Why build your own newsletter platform?
A newsletter platform often controls the parts that matter most: the list, the archive, the sending rules, and the paid gate. For an analyst writing a free Tuesday letter and a paid Friday deep-dive, those parts are the business.
Kliv builds the newsletter as an application you own. Subscribers are records in your database, issues send on your templates, the paid archive opens from the subscription, and free posts are public pages that search engines and AI assistants can read. Kliv also does not price by subscriber count, so growth does not turn into a higher platform rent.
What the newsletter system holds
Under a twice-weekly paid letter, the app keeps these records.
Issues
Each issue is a record with a status and tier: draft, scheduled, sent, free, or paid. Tuesday can go to everyone while Friday goes only to paying readers.
Subscribers
Subscribers live in your own database with signup source, tier, renewal history, and replies. No outside platform sits between you and the reader list.
Archive access
Paid back issues sit behind the subscription. If a subscription lapses, access closes on the schedule you set. If the reader resubscribes, the archive opens again.
Public posts
Free issues live at stable URLs and are prerendered so search engines and AI assistants can read the full text. That is how new readers can find the letter.
Reader replies
Paying readers can comment under paid issues if you want that, and moderation keeps the discussion civil.
An example: Asha’s freight newsletter
Here’s how one publication might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own schedule, prices, archive, and reader rules.
Asha drafts the paid issue
Port congestion numbers, charts, and notes all sit on Friday’s issue record. The issue stays in draft until she schedules it.
The Friday issue is scheduled
Asha sets it for Friday at 06:00 and marks it as paid. The send is now a scheduled job, not something she has to remember.
The paid list is computed at send time
At 06:00, the app checks who is entitled at that moment. A reader who subscribed at 05:58 gets the issue; one who lapsed earlier in the week does not.
A failed card can recover before access closes
A longtime subscriber’s card fails. Dunning retries and sends a recovery link. When she fixes it, her Friday issue and archive access stay open.
Asha can see what converted
Analytics show how many free Tuesday readers became paid subscribers after a specific post, so she can see which public work brought readers into the paid letter.
Describe the newsletter you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Spell out the schedule, prices, free and paid rules, archive, and email templates. Here are three to build on:
Freight-markets dispatch
Free Tuesdays, paid Fridays, and an archive.
“Build a paid newsletter for my shipping-market analysis. Send a free Tuesday letter to everyone, charge $12 per month or $120 per year for a Friday deep-dive, keep the Friday archive behind the paid subscription, allow comped subscriptions for sources, and send each issue from my own template.”
Local politics letter
Free news and paid briefings before votes.
“Build a newsletter site covering city hall. Publish free news roundups twice a week, sell a $9 per month members’ briefing before council votes, tag posts by topic and ward, and keep a searchable archive where paid briefings are visible only to subscribers.”
Paid recipe letter
Free previews, full paid recipes, and videos.
“Build a weekly recipe newsletter with a free preview edition, a $5 per month full version that includes technique videos, a searchable archive by ingredient, annual billing at $50 per year, and subscriber comments moderated before they appear.”
How it comes together
The send list and archive gate agree. The email send and the archive read the same subscription record, so Friday’s recipients and last March’s archive access cannot drift apart.
You can sell monthly, yearly, and comped access. The catalog can hold a monthly price, a discounted annual price, comped subscriptions for sources, and promotion codes for launch week. Free entries still become reader records.
You can test a subscriber’s year first. In the Sandbox, you can run renewals, a failed card, and recovery emails on test payments before you connect Stripe.
Free posts can be found. Public issues are prerendered, the sitemap is maintained, and a per-page SEO check can catch weak issue titles before they publish.
A newsletter is often the first media product. When it becomes a larger publication, the media solutions page covers the wider pattern.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder that builds custom web apps from a description. For a paid newsletter, it can build the subscriber database, issue archive, paid gate, scheduled sends, checkout, and reader-facing site.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. The list, issue records, access rules, checkout, and archive are built around your publication. It is not a newsletter theme you fill in.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can ask for changes to prices, issue tiers, archive rules, templates, moderation, or analytics without rebuilding from scratch.
Do I really own the list?
Yes. Subscribers are rows in your app’s database, and the source code syncs to your own Git repository. You can export your audience whenever you need to.
Can some posts be free and some paid?
Yes. Each issue can carry its own tier. Free posts are public, prerendered pages. Paid posts send to entitled readers and stay gated in the archive.
Can readers pay annually?
Yes. Monthly and annual prices can live in the same catalog, and readers can switch from their own billing page with fair proration where you allow it.
What happens when a reader’s card fails?
Dunning retries the charge and sends recovery emails with a link to fix payment. Archive access closes only if the grace period you set runs out.
Do readers need their own Stripe accounts?
No. Readers pay by card. Payments run through your own Stripe account.
Does Kliv price by subscriber count?
No. Kliv does not price by subscriber count, so a larger list does not automatically raise your Kliv bill.
Will free issues show up in search?
Yes. Free issues are prerendered pages with stable URLs, so search engines and AI assistants can read them.
Can I comp a subscription?
Yes. You can create comped reader records for sources, friends, or reviewers and keep them in the same system as paid readers.
Can paid readers comment?
Yes, if you build that into the app. Paid threads can sit under the Friday issue with a moderation queue.
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Build the publication around your rules
Describe your schedule, prices, free posts, paid archive, templates, and reader rules in as much detail as you like. Kliv builds the paid newsletter platform from that description.