Collect without friction
A shareable form where customers drop a quote, name, and role. No account needed.
Build your own paid testimonial wall
Start with a testimonial collection app you can charge for: customers submit praise through a simple form, you approve what goes public, and a paid upgrade unlocks the full product.
Build this app
You control the wall
Submissions wait in a private moderation queue. Approve the good ones onto the public wall.
A real upgrade wall
Free covers the first testimonials; a paid upgrade unlocks unlimited entries. Real checkout, your payout.
The complete starter prompt
Review it before you build, then change the business name, services, rates, colors, or workflow.
Build a mobile-first testimonial collection app called Testimonial Wall for a small business or creator.
Public surfaces:
- A clean public wall showing approved testimonials as cards: quote, name, role or company, and an optional star rating.
- A shareable submission form where a customer writes a testimonial (quote, name, role, rating) with no account required. Submissions are NOT public until approved.
Private owner view (sign-in required):
- A moderation queue of new submissions with approve and reject actions.
- Manage the wall: unpublish or reorder approved testimonials.
Monetization:
- The free plan shows up to 5 approved testimonials on the public wall and includes a small "Made with Testimonial Wall" badge.
- A one-time paid upgrade unlocks unlimited testimonials and removes the badge. Use the platform's built-in payments (Polar) for a real checkout, and gate strictly by whether the owner has paid.
- Free owners hitting the limit see a clear, friendly upgrade prompt — never a broken state.
Use schema.ts and @omg-dev/sdk useCollection for persistent testimonials and settings. Use a warm, trustworthy look — soft cards, readable serif quotes, gentle accent color. Seed six realistic approved testimonials and two pending submissions so both the wall and the moderation queue look alive immediately.How to build an app that charges money
Gate outcomes, not features
The upgrade should unlock something the user already wants more of — more testimonials on their wall, removing the branding badge — not an abstract 'pro tier'. Let free users feel the value first, then place the wall exactly where they hit its edge.
Let payment infrastructure do the dangerous parts
Checkout, card data, taxes, and receipts run on a merchant of record — audited payment rails, not per-app code. Your app's job is only to know who paid and what that unlocks, which is a one-sentence request in an AI builder.
Moderation is the product
A testimonial wall lives or dies on curation. Keep the submission form frictionless for customers, but never publish anything automatically — the approve step is what makes the wall trustworthy enough to embed on a real site.