Open alpha · Creator-owned communities

Communities where
members earn their place.

Recline is a creator-owned community platform with private encrypted spaces, a Sparks economy that turns daily presence into real status, and no email or phone number required to join.

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Creator-owned Community servers
Sparks economy Member contribution rewarded
E2E encrypted Private by design
No email Required to join

The problem

Audiences aren't communities.

Existing platforms were built to monetize attention, not to build belonging. Creators don't own their communities. Members have no reason to show up beyond the content itself.

Creators don't own their community
Your community lives on someone else's platform, under their rules, generating their revenue. Discord monetizes your members' attention. Patreon takes a cut of subscriptions. You get neither the data nor the relationship — just access, revocable at any time.
Lurking is the default
On Discord, 90% of members never send a message. There's no incentive to participate. No recognition for showing up. No difference between a member who's been there since day one and someone who joined yesterday. Passive is indistinguishable from active.
Private conversations aren't private
Community spaces that feel intimate aren't actually private. Every message is readable by the platform, accessible to its moderation team, and stored indefinitely. "Private" is a UX label — not a technical reality. Real community trust requires real privacy guarantees.

The platform

A real community stack.
For real communities.

Community isn't just a chat room. Recline is built for the full loop — private spaces, member contribution, creator support, and recognition that means something.

Creator-owned spaces
You create the server, you set the rules. Custom roles with granular permissions, invite controls, and a community structure you actually control. The server belongs to you — not to the platform.
roles · permissions · invite links
Sparks economy
Members earn Sparks automatically every day they log in. Spend them to tip creators, send animated messages, or broadcast announcements. Status is earned by showing up — and creators earn revenue from the engagement they generate.
daily rewards · creator tips · cashout
Encrypted channels
Messages are encrypted in your browser before they leave your device. The server stores only ciphertext — architecturally unable to read channel conversations. No policy, no moderator, no database breach changes this.
AES-GCM-256 · PBKDF2-SHA256
Encrypted direct messages
DMs use ECDH P-256 key exchange — your private key never leaves your device. The server is a blind relay: it delivers ciphertext it cannot read, and stores nothing in plain text.
ECDH P-256 · HKDF-SHA256
Voice & video calls
Peer-to-peer WebRTC calls — Recline is never in the audio or video path. DTLS-SRTP handles media encryption. Screen sharing up to 1440p, deafening, per-peer volume, and spatial call layouts included.
WebRTC · DTLS-SRTP · P2P
No email or phone required
Sign up with a username and a password. Nothing else is asked — at signup, or at any point after. No identity linked. No contact information stored. No way to connect your account to your real-world identity unless you choose to.
anonymous signup · Argon2id passwords

Spark economy

Contribution made visible.

Sparks are the community economy — built into the platform, not bolted on. Members earn them by showing up daily. Creators earn them when their community engages. The result is a community where active participation actually means something.

  • Daily login rewards Sparks automatically — no grinding required
  • Tip creators and members directly — 70% goes to the creator
  • Send animated messages that stand out in busy channels
  • Broadcast server-wide announcements to every member
  • Creators can cash Spark earnings out to real money via Stripe
  • Core chat, voice, and video are always completely free
✦
Daily reward
Sparks land in your wallet every day you log in. Stack streaks for bonus multipliers.
Animated messages
Make your message glow, pulse, or light up the channel. Sixteen free styles, twelve paid.
Server broadcasts
Reach every member with a highlighted announcement. Launches, events, big news.
Creator cashout
Connect Stripe and convert Spark earnings to real money. Contribution has real value.

Why Recline

Different platforms solve different problems.

Discord is great for casual community chat. Patreon is great for subscriptions. Neither was built to be a place where members belong and creators own the relationship. Recline is.

Recline
  • ✓ Creator-owned community
  • ✓ Member contribution rewarded
  • ✓ End-to-end encrypted
  • ✓ Sparks economy built in
  • ✓ Creator revenue from engagement
  • ✓ No email required
  • ✓ Open-source client
Discord
  • — Platform owns the relationship
  • — Lurking equals participation
  • — No message encryption
  • — No native creator economy
  • — Discord monetizes your members
  • ✓ No email required
  • — Closed source
Patreon
  • — Patreon owns the billing
  • — No community layer
  • — No encrypted spaces
  • — Subscriptions, not engagement
  • ✓ Creator revenue model
  • — Email required
  • — Closed source
Reddit / YouTube
  • — Platform owns the audience
  • — Algorithm determines reach
  • — No private spaces
  • — No community economy
  • — Platform takes ad revenue
  • — Account tied to identity
  • — Closed source

Trust layer

Privacy makes the community real.

Private communities only work if they're actually private. Encryption is the architectural guarantee — not a setting, not a promise, not something a policy update can remove.

Server can see
Your username (stored in plain text)
Message timestamps
Which channels you belong to
That a message was sent (not content)
Your IP (not logged by default)
Server cannot see
Message content — encrypted before sending
DM content — ECDH, server is a blind relay
Your channel passphrase
Email or phone — never asked
Call audio or video — WebRTC is P2P

This is alpha software. Metadata minimization is ongoing. Full privacy details, honest limitations, and our data commitments →

SECURITY SPEC
channel_enc AES-GCM-256Per-message random IV. PBKDF2-SHA256 key derivation from channel passphrase.
dm_enc ECDH P-256 + HKDF-SHA256Private key lives in localStorage, cleared on logout. Server is a blind relay for DMs.
passwords Argon2idWinner of the Password Hashing Competition. Resistant to GPU and ASIC brute-force.
2fa TOTP RFC 6238Standard time-based OTP, compatible with any authenticator app.
sessions 256-bit random hex tokensStored in the sessions table. No JWT, no cookie-based state.
voice_video WebRTC mesh P2PDTLS-SRTP handles media encryption. Recline servers handle signaling only.
database Ciphertext onlyAES-GCM ciphertext stored in PostgreSQL. Database dump reveals no message content.
source_code Open-source clientEvery line is public on GitHub under AGPL-3.0. Audit the encryption implementation yourself.
No email required No ads No data selling Open-source client E2E encrypted Creator revenue built in

Founding Supporter

Help build what comes next.

Recline is free. There are no ads, no investors, no data sales. The Founding Supporter program lets you back the platform early — your contribution covers infrastructure and keeps development moving.

  • ✓ Founding Supporter badge on your profile
  • ✓ Access to the private development roadmap
  • ✓ Direct line on feature requests and issues
Become a supporter £5 / month

Join the alpha

Start your community free.

No email. No credit card. Encrypted by default from your first message. The community platform is early — the direction is clear.

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