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Who it is for

A designer posts a template that gets remixed 300 times. Remix Royalty tracks each fork and splits sales automatically along the lineage.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$229

$57 deposit to reserve

Upload and fork flow, lineage graph, split contract, storefront

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: upstream percent

Customfrom $1,800

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Upstream remix royalties exist as infrastructure; a consumer remix-credit app for everyday creative work like recipes is the less common angle.

Closest things out there

Story Protocol royalty policies route derivative revenue up the IP graph, and FaiRemix (Zora) and InvestHub IPFI register parent links for upstream royalties.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Rewards creativity that inspires other creativity.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

buildathon · Base · upcoming

Base Batches

unknown for next cohort

Official page ↗

Eligibility unknown

Their rule on existing code: unknown; prior editions accepted early-stage teams including existing projects

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Remix Royalty app: creators publish recipe cards, remixes grow a visible family tree, and every paid remix sends a share back up the tree in USDC, with a paywall and a polite matching agent built in.

Base price · $229

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: cooks remix, shares come home, matches are polite.

Home with next actionHome

Illustrated kitchen, remix and country counts, upstream earnings and one clear next step.

Family tree viewTree

Root, remixes, remixes of remixes and dotted inspired branches, with faces and cities.

Split checkout and receiptTree

A remix sale pays every ancestor in the same USDC transaction on Base, with an onchain and offchain receipt.

Split terms editorTree

Share to the parent, levels up the tree, free remixes on or off. 3 levels gated behind Pro creator.

Printable tree posterTree

Every branch as a poster for the kitchen wall. Gated behind Pro creator.

Publish a recipe cardPublish

Title, price, split, levels and a plain license, registered as a root on Story.

Match reportsMatches

Ratio and step order matching, a private report above the bar, a credit tag below it.

Match scan on demandMatches

Ask the agent to scan partner shops now. Gated behind Pro creator.

Wallet, cash out and receiptsWallet

Own sales versus upstream income, six month chart, cash out in USDC, every receipt.

Sunday tree letter and plansMe

Thank cooks on their branch, alert settings, the plans sheet from the owner paywall, share card.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

GMV, fee revenue, plan MRR, incoming USDC payments, payment methods, payouts and live tier editing.

Reviews queueReviews

Fake parent chains, ignored reports and disputes, decided by a person.

Rules, agent log and roadmapRules

Match bar, fees, max depth, default share, gas sponsoring; plus the Agent log and priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Creators, cohorts and growth loopsCreators

Cohort retention, biggest trees, referrals and a Remix Sunday challenge you can run.

Invite a cook referralsMe

Invite links that give both cooks a free Pro month and count in the owner console.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Publishing and remixing are free. The owner keeps a small fee on paid remix sales, and creators who want more tools pay a monthly plan.

CookFreePublish, remix and share free versions with credit, splits up to 2 levels, 5% fee on paid sales

Pro creator$6 a month2% fee, custom split rules 3 levels deep, match scan on demand, printable tree poster

Studio$49 a monthEverything in Pro for template shops and cooking schools, shared trees, bulk exports and statements

Platform fee of 5% (Cook) or 2% (Pro and Studio) on paid remix sales, set by the owner. Gas on Base is well under a cent per split and can be sponsored.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Parent links on every remix page send buyers to the original and its other branches
Tree pictures and share cards creators post because they are beautiful
Thank you notes from the Sunday letter bring both cooks back
Invite a cook: a free Pro month for both
Remix Sunday challenges: one dish, a week to remix it

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The remix app

Publish cards with a price and a split
Fork button and the family tree
USDC split checkout on Base, lineage on Story
Matching agent and match reports
Sunday tree letter with thank yous

Included

Beyond recipes

Templates, sewing patterns, lesson plans and presets
Photo and video steps in the fingerprint
Creator storefront pages with custom domains

Add-on from $400

Credit that travels

Partner shop API that reads the tree
Embeddable fork button for blogs
Cooking school Studio dashboards

Add-on from $900

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

When someone remixes your recipe and sells it, credit and a small share flow back up the family tree.

Problem: Recipes and templates get remixed constantly. When a remix sells, the person who made the original usually gets nothing, not even a name, and remixers who want to give credit have no easy way to pay it across borders.

Solution: A consumer remix app: a fork button that records the parent, a visible family tree, a split the creator picks paid in USDC in the same transaction, and a matching agent that suggests missing parent links politely instead of issuing takedowns.

Why now: Story Protocol lineage, cheap split payments on Base, embedded email wallets and small models that compare ratios and steps make cross border credit practical for home cooks.

Market: Home cooks, food creators, template sellers, cooking schools and any niche where buying a remixable work is normal.

The ask: Pilot creators in one niche, a cooking school as the first Studio, and a place in builder programmes such as Base Batches.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Marisol in Mexico City, 312 remixes in 19 countries, a buyer in Accra is at checkout.
Tree: buy Amara's $5 card and watch $0.50 go to Kenji and $0.25 to Marisol, then open the split receipt.
Matches: send a report to the shop selling a 91% translated copy; suggest only a credit tag to Lena at 34%.
Publish: set price and split for Tamales de Abuela, see 3 levels locked behind Pro creator, publish.
Wallet: own sales versus upstream income, then cash out in USDC.
Owner Revenue: change the Pro creator price in the paywall editor and preview the user Plans sheet.
Owner Reviews and Rules: pause the listing that ignored a report, move the match bar and watch matches change.
Owner Agent and Roadmap: run next Sunday, then request the v2 Beyond recipes build.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,800: new work types and fingerprints, your own license set, integrations with a shop or school platform, extra languages, or a branded deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,800

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Recipes, templates and other everyday creative work get remixed constantly, and that is good. But when a remix sells, the person who made the original usually gets nothing, not even a name. Remixers who want to give credit have no simple way to pay it forward across borders.

What exists and what is new

The infrastructure exists. Story Protocol royalty policies already route revenue from derivatives up an IP graph, and projects such as FaiRemix (on Zora) and InvestHub IPFI register parent links so upstream creators get paid. Research verdict: rare, medium novelty. What this app adds is a consumer remix app for everyday creative work like recipes: a friendly fork flow, a visible family tree, a split the creator picks, and a matching agent that suggests missing parent links politely instead of issuing takedowns. It is a product layer on known rails, not a new protocol.

The data it runs on

Uploaded recipes or templates (text, ingredient quantities, steps, photos), fingerprints of ingredient ratios and method order, parent links declared by remixers or accepted after a match report, each creator's split settings, and sales paid in USDC. Recipe text and photos stay in the app's storage; only fingerprints, parent links and payments go on chain.

1.The mission

Make it normal for creativity that inspires other creativity to be credited, and when it sells, paid.

2.Why people can't resist it

Your family tree Watching a recipe grow branches in cities you have never been to is a joy in itself, and every branch has a face.

Money from far away A small payment from Lagos or Osaka because someone loved your dish enough to build on it.

The Sunday letter A weekly letter shows new remixes and photos, with one tap to thank the cook.

3.How it works for real

Accounts: Email sign in with a Privy embedded wallet, so cooks never handle seed phrases. Payouts land in USDC on Base.

Publish and fork: A creator uploads a recipe or template and sets a split (for example 10% to the parent, halving each level up, for up to 3 levels). A remix starts from a fork button that records the parent.

Lineage: Each work is registered as an IP asset on Story with its parent links, so the tree is public and portable. A mirror on Base keeps the split addresses for payments.

Sales and splits: Card sales are paid in USDC on Base through a split contract (for example 0xSplits style) that pays each ancestor in the same transaction.

Matching agent: New listings are compared by ingredient ratios and step order, not just words. Embeddings plus a small model (Claude Haiku tier) summarise the match. Above 80% it sends a match report; below, it only suggests an optional credit tag.

Letters: A weekly email and push summary of new branches, sales and thank yous, written from the tree data.

4.Cost per use and pricing

A sale with a 3 level split on Base costs well under a cent in gas, usually sponsored. Registering a work and its parent link on Story costs a small fee per registration. Fingerprinting a new listing and a short model summary cost roughly $0.001 to $0.003. Example month with 5,000 new works and 20,000 sales: about $40 in gas and registration, $15 in model and embedding calls, $40 hosting and email, roughly $95 total, plus card payment fees for buyers paying by card.

Cook Free

Publish, remix and share free versions with credit. The app takes 5% of paid sales.

Pro creator $6 a month

Lower fee of 2%, custom split rules, the full tree view and match reports on demand.

Studio $49 a month

For template shops and cooking schools: many creators, shared trees and bulk exports.

5.Growth loop

Every remix page shows its parent and the parent's tree, so buyers discover the original and its other branches. Creators share their tree as a picture because it is beautiful, and each thank you notification brings both cooks back.

6.Risks and guardrails

Recipes are hard to own: In many countries a list of ingredients is not protected by copyright. The app presents splits as a creator's terms and a community norm, not a legal claim, and never threatens legal action on anyone's behalf.

False matches: Similar dishes are common. The agent only reports above a high bar, a person decides, and below the bar it never accuses.

Gaming the tree: People may attach fake parents to farm splits. Parent links need the parent to exist first and are visible, and suspicious chains can be reported and reviewed.

Small amounts: Most remixes are free and most paid ones sell little. The app must say clearly that upstream income is small and not guaranteed.

Payments and tax: Cross border payouts can carry tax or reporting duties for creators. The owner should provide clear statements and check local rules.

7.Build order

Publish a recipe card with a price and a split
Fork button that records the parent
USDC checkout with a split contract on Base
Lineage registration on Story and a tree view
Ratio and step matching with a match report
Weekly tree letter with thank yous

8.Where this is going

Now
Recipe cards that remember where they came from and pay a small share back up the tree when remixes sell.
Next
Templates, sewing patterns, lesson plans and presets, any everyday work people build on.
Later
Shops and platforms read the tree, so credit follows a work wherever it is sold.
The big picture
Inspiring someone becomes a small, lasting source of income and recognition, for home cooks as much as for famous artists.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Remix Royalty

When your template, recipe or design gets remixed, the credit usually vanishes after the first copy. Remix Royalty tracks every fork and splits sales automatically back up the family tree. Owning it means you run the storefront where creators keep lineage and earnings: your brand, your creator community and your platform fee on every sale.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code. Can I run a royalty platform?”

Yes. Upload and fork flow, lineage graph, split contract and storefront are built. You choose the chain, upstream percent, name and colors, and deploy from your wallet with the guide.

“Will creators want royalties going to others?”

The ones who remix get credit and a share from their own remixers too. Pitch it as fairness that pays both ways.

“What if someone copies outside the platform?”

You cannot stop all copying. You make the honest path easier and better paid, and lineage visible. Be clear about that limit.

“Who owns the rights?”

Creators keep their rights; the license they pick decides what remixers may do. Offer a few plain licenses and suggest a lawyer for commercial deals.

“Will anyone buy remixes?”

Start with a niche where buying templates is normal: design templates, recipes for food businesses, music loops, Notion setups.

The million-dollar ladder

You take a small platform fee on every sale; creators and their upstream lineage receive the rest automatically. Pro creators pay monthly for analytics and featured placement.

$50

$4,500

$50,000

$85,000

First 10 creators

10 creators selling

$5 average monthly fee revenue per creator

A niche creator community

300 creators

$15 per creator per month

Known remix marketplace in a niche

2,500 creators