ORPL Club

We build this ourselves.

ORPL Club is the artists deciding what the platform does next, and building it.

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Why a club

For a long time other people decided. The label signed you, radio played you, an editor wrote about you. Off the list meant you did not exist.
That is over. The release, the brand, the audience, the money — an artist does all of it now, from a laptop. For the first time in a century the tools are in their hands.
One thing is left: those tools are usually written by people who never put a record out. So ORPL has a club. The people using the platform every day decide what is in it tomorrow.
Ukrainian music is being rebuilt from scratch right now. What it becomes depends on who shows up and does the work.

Idea: A member puts what is missing on the board: a title and the problem it solves. Two fields is enough.
Backing: Others back what hurts them too. The board sorts by backing, so what rises is the shared problem rather than the loudest voice.
Vote: Every Monday a week of voting opens between the strongest ideas. Every member votes.
Work: What wins goes into the plan and moves across the board in the open: planned, building, shipped.
Shipped: The author and everyone who backed it hear first. The idea keeps their name on it.

Vote weight runs from one to 9. It grows with what you have done: how long you have been in the club, whose ideas have shipped, who turns up to meetings.
Money counts too, but within limits. A share of the pool adds at most 3 — that is the ceiling. Someone a year in with shipped ideas outweighs any contribution.
That is deliberate. A contribution can move one idea up the queue. It cannot buy the direction of the platform.

The club does not decide everything. Here is where the line runs.
A member: Puts an idea on the board, backs someone else's, votes, gives to the pool. Nobody's permission needed.
The vote: Which idea from the board goes into work next. Every Monday, weighted by what you have done.
The founder: What is technically possible and when, prices, data safety, and who joins the club.

Every member's monthly Pro subscription goes into the pool. That is what ORPL runs on: servers, models, promotion.
On top of the subscription you can give voluntarily and pick the direction — what is being collected for is visible inside.
Every spend from the pool is published in the club: how much, on what, and what came of it. What was raised is shown beside what was spent, not instead of it.
This is not a stake in the company — only a separate agreement can give you that. Our goal is that in time club members hold a share of it too.

A Pro subscription: The club is open to people paying for the platform monthly. That subscription is the contribution to the pool.
A request: In your account settings, one button.
An answer: Requests are read by hand. The club is small and will stay small: a conversation between a hundred people stops being a conversation.
We look at one thing: whether you have something to bring. Listener counts, genre and fame do not count.
If we say no, we say why. You can apply again at any time.

What am I expected to do in the club? At minimum, vote once a week. Beyond that, as you like: propose ideas, test new things, come to meetings, bring other artists in.
Can a decision be bought? No. A contribution can move one idea up the queue and adds at most 3 to a vote weight of 9. A long-standing member outweighs it.
What happens to an idea nobody backs? It stays in proposals. That is an answer too, and better to get it that way than after six months of work.
Is this a stake in the company? No. Only a separate agreement can give you that. Our goal is that in time club members hold a share of it too.
Do I need to be a well-known artist? No. You need to bring something: an idea, a test, a review, a case, another artist.
Can I leave? Yes, any time. The subscription and the club are separate: you can stay on Pro and leave the club.