Membership
Every account gets the open forum. Premium opens the private working rooms, deep-dive guides and members’ lounge — for the questions you can’t ask anywhere else.
Free · no card needed
The open forum, public guides, member profiles and General chat. For getting to know the room before you pay for anything.
Side by side
Community covers the open side of FoundersOnly. Premium adds the private rooms, and yearly members get three extras on top.
| Feature | CommunityFree | Premiumfrom $15.83/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Open forum discussions | Included | Included |
| Public field guides | Included | Included |
| Member profiles and private inbox | Included | Included |
| General community chat | Included | Included |
| Private working rooms | Not included | Included |
| Deep-dive Premium guides | Not included | Included |
| Members’ lounge chat | Not included | Included |
| Post in the Ads channel | Not included | Included |
| Yearly member badge | Not included | Yearly plan only |
| Working-session archive | Not included | Yearly plan only |
| Priority guide requests | Not included | Yearly plan only |
Building your own community?
Source license
The production codebase behind FoundersOnly, ready to deploy under your own brand. For builders who would rather launch a paid community than spend months wiring up auth, billing and access control.
$299one-time
Lifetime updates included. No subscription.
You’ll create a free account first.Have one? Sign in
A software license, not a membership. Premium access is a separate plan.
Before you decide
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If you’re signed in, you go straight to a secure Dodo Payments checkout, and Premium unlocks as soon as your payment is confirmed. New here? You’ll create a free account first, then come back to this page.
Yes, any time from your billing page. You keep Premium until the end of the period you’ve already paid for.
Both unlock the same Premium rooms, guides and lounge. Yearly costs $190 instead of $228 — 2 months free — and adds a member badge, the working-session archive and priority guide requests.
No. The source license is the codebase for running your own community, paid once with lifetime updates. Premium membership here is a separate plan.
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No. A free Community account gets you the open forum, public guides and General chat. Upgrade whenever the private rooms become useful.