makerhandle vs Stan Store

What Stan does well

Stan (stan.store) is a storefront for creators. It is built for selling digital products, courses, coaching calls and memberships directly from the link in your bio, with checkout built in. For creators who earn from their audience, that is exactly the right tool.

As of 2026, Stan's plans start at $29 a month, with a free trial.

Its focus on checkout means a fan can go from post to purchase in a couple of taps, which is exactly what a creator storefront should do. If selling directly to your audience is the business, that focus is a strength.

A different job

makerhandle does not sell anything for you. It is a page that shows the products you have built, wherever they are sold: your SaaS, your Shopify store, your app, your hardware kit, your open source library.

Each project has a status (Active, Building, Acquired, On hold, Discontinued), a description, tags and a screenshot, laid out by one of seven templates: Stack, Showcase, Bento, Minimal, Spotlight, Terminal or Studio. The templates are hard to break, and setup takes about two minutes.

Verified revenue from your own stack

If your products already sell through Stripe or Shopify, makerhandle can read that revenue with read-only access and show it with a check mark and a revenue history chart. You keep selling where you sell; your page just proves it.

Verified projects can appear on the public leaderboard. See verified revenue or, for stores, makerhandle for Shopify stores.

Keys are read-only, checked before saving, encrypted at rest and never shown again. Revenue is always optional: you can show it, type a figure yourself or leave it off.

Analytics, subscribers and price

makerhandle includes analytics with no cookies and no stored IPs: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration, sources and UTM campaigns, locations, devices, project clicks and subscribes as goals, realtime and CSV export. There is also a subscribe box with double opt-in, or a button to your newsletter.

Pricing is simple: free forever for five projects, or Pro at $20 a year for unlimited projects, every template, a custom domain, unlimited subscribers and a year of analytics. See pricing.

makerhandle never touches your sales, so there is no fee on what you earn.

Which should you pick?

Pick Stan if you want to sell courses, coaching or digital downloads straight from your bio with checkout included.

Pick makerhandle if you build products that already sell elsewhere and want one simple page that shows them all, with proof of revenue and private analytics, for a fraction of the cost.

Some people use both: a Stan store for digital products, linked as one project on their makerhandle page.

Each tool does its own job, and neither gets in the other's way.