Zoneless – Open-source Stripe Connect clone with $0.002 fees using USDC
Hi HN, I'm Ben / Tiny Projects (I once posted here about buying 300 emoji domains from Kazakhstan…). For the past 3 years I've been solo bootstrapping PromptBase, an AI marketplace with 450k+ users. At the peak, I was burning $9,400/month in opaque Stripe Connect fees for seller payouts, so I built Zoneless to replace it: - GitHub: https://github.com/zonelessdev/zoneless - Website: https://zoneless.com Zoneless is a free, open-source (Apache 2.0) drop-in replacement for the payout part of Stripe Connect. It allows you to pay marketplace sellers…
Zoneless – Open-source Stripe Connect clone with $0.002 fees using USDC launched on April 9, 2026 with 15 votes, #1,070 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Zoneless is an open-source, free alternative to Stripe Connect's payout system designed for marketplaces. It enables global seller payments using USDC stablecoins with fees of $0.002 per transaction, compared to traditional payment processors. The tool provides an API compatible with Stripe, allowing developers to integrate it as a drop-in replacement. It is built for marketplace operators seeking to reduce payout costs while maintaining straightforward seller payment functionality.
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From the sources
Open-source Stripe alternative for stablecoins. Checkout, subscriptions, and marketplace payouts. Stripe-compatible API. Your very own payments stack with no fees. - zonelessdev/zoneless
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I'm Ben / Tiny Projects (I once posted here about buying 300 emoji domains from Kazakhstan…). For the past 3 years I've been solo bootstrapping PromptBase, an AI marketplace with 450k+ users. At the peak, I was burning $9,400/month in opaque Stripe Connect fees for seller payouts, so I built Zoneless…
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ZonelessApr 2026 · zoneless.com · ▲111Hey, I'm Ben. I built Zoneless because I was paying so much to use Stripe Connect on my own marketplace. The fees were really, really bad, and it was also limiting in terms of the seller countries I could onboard. To give you an idea, I was paying around $9,000 per month in fees just to run payouts. Using Zoneless, that cost goes down to around $6. I've been using it personally for the past few months, and onboarded 5,000+ sellers and done 3,000+ payouts. 74% of new sellers on my marketplace choose Zoneless over Stripe, which is really interesting. I appreciate crypto and stablecoins are a…
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