Swoin enters Public Beta: sustainable software funding is now live

Software is not a finished project. It lives, grows, evolves. Anyone who has ever maintained a software product knows: the work doesn't stop after the first release — that's when it really begins.

For developers, this means: you need continuous support, not a one-time funding campaign. And for users, it means: you have daily opinions about what could be better — but no real channel that actually moves things.

That's exactly the problem Swoin solves. Starting today, March 1, 2026, Swoin is in Public Beta — launching in the EU first. The platform is ready — and we invite you to help shape it with us.

Swoin is the subscription platform for sustainable software funding. Not for finished projects, but for living products.

The concept is simple: makers publish their software product on Swoin and maintain a public roadmap. Supporters subscribe to the product monthly and receive Innovation Tokens — InTo for short. With these tokens, they vote on which features should be developed next. Developers receive monthly payouts via Stripe Connect directly to their bank account.

Swoin stands for "Swarm of Innovators"

Whether indie developer, small team, or mid-size company: Swoin works for everyone.

What makers get on Swoin:

• A product page with description, roadmap, blog, and discussion forum — all in one

• Feature voting: the community votes with Innovation Tokens on what gets built next

• Automatic payouts via Stripe Connect, configurable as daily, weekly, or monthly

• Swoin fee: 7% + Stripe payout fees; the rest goes directly to you

• Free to start — fees only apply to actual revenue
  

A particularly interesting angle for makers of commercial software: if part of your user base is willing to pay a monthly subscription for direct roadmap influence, this creates a supplemental revenue stream. That can allow you to lower the base price of your software — power users pay for access and influence, everyone else benefits from more affordable prices.

Supporters on Swoin are not donors. They are co-creators.

What supporters get on Swoin:

• Monthly Innovation Tokens with their subscription — pure voting currency, not crypto, not real money

• A real vote on the roadmap: which features should be built next?

• Visibility: their vote stays permanently and weighted on the feature they chose

• Access to exclusive development updates, early previews, and direct discussions with the team
  

Feedback doesn't end up in a ticket system nobody reads. It becomes a direct part of the roadmap process.

Getting started is straightforward. Swoin supports SSO via GitHub, Google, or Microsoft — no separate account needed. Open-source and closed-source projects are equally welcome.

We have planned and built Swoin carefully. But a beta thrives when real users have real experiences. Every piece of feedback is not a bug report — it's a contribution.

That also means: there will be things we still improve. AI support for product pages is coming later. Feature requests from non-subscribed users are not yet fully available. Some internal processes still run partly manually. That's normal for a beta — and we're open to all of it.

The core product works. And we look forward to your first real experience with it.

We use Swoin ourselves on Swoin. Our own product page is at https://www.swoin.io/p/swoin. There you can browse the roadmap, join discussions, and submit feature requests.

We welcome ideas and suggestions through these channels:

- Feature Request directly on the platform at https://www.swoin.io/p/swoin — ideas become votable roadmap items

- Discussions on the product page — in the integrated forum directly on the product

- Social media — reply to us on X — we read everything and pick up ideas