// HOW THE MONEY FLOWS
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The vendorPays a small commissionAt no extra cost to you — the price is the same either way.→
This siteStays freeThe next guide and the next tool stay free for everyone.
The deal, in plain words
Broke to Built earns money in three ways, and only three:
- Advertising. We display ads served by Google AdSense. Ads are clearly distinguishable from our content, and we never write content just to carry ads. How ad cookies work (and how to opt out of personalization) is covered in our privacy policy.
- Affiliate links, always marked. A small number of outbound links are affiliate links to tools we genuinely use ourselves. If you sign up through one, the vendor pays us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Every such link is identified as a referral where it appears.
- Optional paid templates and tools. Some guides mention a related paid template or tool of ours, sold on external marketplaces — never on this site, and never required. Every guide is complete and free on its own.
Our rules on this
✓ ALWAYS
Disclosed, right there
Every affiliate link is marked as a referral where it appears. Never dressed up as "a discount we got you."
✓ ONLY
What we actually use
We don't recommend tools we haven't used ourselves. No pay-to-be-recommended, ever.
✓ GENTLE
On the hardest pages
Grief guides put all the free help first. At most one clearly-labeled optional tool at the very end — never wedged into the middle of it.
✓ NEVER MORE
Costs you nothing extra
Affiliate pricing is the same price you'd pay anyway. Every time.
The current affiliate relationships
For full transparency, these are the affiliate relationships we have today:
- z.ai GLM Coding Plan — an AI coding subscription we use in our own development work. This is a referral link.
- ElevenLabs — a voice service that some of our tools can optionally connect to with your own key. This is a referral link.
- Marketplace listings of our own templates (e.g., on PromptBase or Payhip) may use the marketplace's referral mechanism, which lowers the fee the marketplace charges us. It never changes your price.
Why we're this upfront
Because trust is the whole product. If a recommendation here ever feels less than straight with you, tell us and we'll fix it — that's a promise we can keep because the list above is short on purpose.