Solly was founded by Timothy Gboluaje and Sochima Dike. It started because handing out roles and keeping track of supporters by hand is miserable — and because the communities doing it deserved better tools than a pinned message and a spreadsheet.
Every community we were part of had the same problem. Someone supports you, you promise them a role, a private channel and early access — and then you forget, or they cancel and keep the perks, or you spend your evening checking DMs against a list of names.
Solly does that part for you. You describe your tiers and perks once, Solly gives you one link, you paste it in your server, and everything after that — joins, payments, roles, records — happens on its own.
We are not trying to build the biggest creator platform. We are trying to build the one that community owners actually recommend to each other.
Co-founder · Product & engineering
Timothy runs the product. He was handing out roles by hand in his own Discord server, one member at a time, and got tired of it — so he built the first version of Solly to do it for him. He writes most of the code, answers most of the emails, and ships releases weekly.
Co-founder · Community & design
Sochima looks after the people side. He spends his days inside community servers, watching how members actually behave, and turns that into the way Solly looks and feels — the onboarding, the perks, the wording on every button.
Solly is not a payment tool with a Discord feature bolted on. Everything starts with what a community actually needs, then we work out how the money should move.
A free membership on Solly is not a demo. Tiers, perks, a public page, a shareable link and the directory all work without a card.
No fake urgency, no hidden fees, no locking your members behind a wall you cannot open. If you leave, your members are still yours.
We release weekly. A good suggestion in the Discord on Monday is often live by Friday.
No jargon in the product, the emails or the docs. If a sentence needs explaining, we rewrite it.
Two founders, one inbox. You will never get an auto-reply with a ticket number from us.
Timothy is manually giving roles to supporters in his own server and losing track of who paid for what.
A weekend prototype: one page, three tiers, one link to paste in a server. Friends start using it the same week.
The product gets a real design language, an onboarding flow and a Discord community around it.
Real Stripe checkout arrives, with money going straight to the creator's own Stripe account instead of ours.
Fundraisers, the public discovery directory, the feature request hub, and Solly for Schools.
Where we are now — open to everyone, still small, still reading every message.
It is a real product with a real roadmap, built by a small founding team. We are deliberately small so that the people building Solly are the same people you talk to.
You do. Members join your Discord server, and paid tiers pay into your own connected Stripe account — Solly never sits between you and your community.
Because that is where communities already live. We would rather make the place people already love work better than ask them to move.
Everything on the site works and is safe to use with real members and real money. Some newer areas, like events and deeper analytics, are still being finished.
Email timgboluaje@gmail.com or join the Solly Discord and say hi in the general channel. Both reach us directly.
Tell us about your community — how many people, what you already give them, and what you wish you could charge for. We reply personally, usually the same day.