How we make money
Short version: we make things and sell them. Dracon is a small software studio — games, music, the AI Hub, and utility tools — and the money comes from the products we build and charge for, not from advertising or affiliate arrangements. Everything below is the long version, because we think you deserve it.
Where the money comes from
- Product revenue. Our games, music releases, and the AI Hub subscriptions. When you buy something we made, that is how the studio gets paid.
- Hosted tools. If a utility tool earns its keep, it can become a paid hosted service. Today the tools on /tools are free one-job utilities — the pricing for hosted versions would be printed on the tool itself, never hidden in fine print.
- That's it. No banner ads, no sponsored rows, no affiliate links, no tracked merchant links, no selling your data.
What we tried and cut
For transparency: we did run an affiliate surface once — a "deals" site and later a Stack Builder with tracked merchant links and a weekly verifier agent checking every price. We cut it. Twice. The deals app was torn down in August 2026, and the Stack Builder followed the same week. The reason is simple: users come to tools for the value they get, not to click our affiliate links — and we decided the platform should reflect that.
Today there are no tracked merchant links on dracon.uk.
The old /deals/* paths return a redirect to the tools
index — nothing loops, nothing lures. If this changes in the future,
this page will say so before it happens, not after.
What we refuse to do
- Affiliate links. Done and cut, twice, as above.
- Fake urgency. No invented countdown timers, no "3 people bought this" widgets.
- Data selling. We don't sell or share visitor data. Period.
- Sponsored content. A row, a tile, or an article paid for by someone else — nothing on this platform is for sale except our own work.
- Pay-to-win disclosure games. If something costs money, the price is printed next to it.
Where the tools stand
The tools at /tools are value-first utilities: Codex Reset is a free usage tracker and forecast; Object Storage Compare shows honest price and real benchmark numbers for three object-storage vendors. Every number has a capture date. If a tool ever gains a paid tier, the free tier stays and this page gets a section explaining the change.
Questions
Dracon runs the whole platform — games, music, AI Hub, and the tools
that ship from the same studio (dracon.uk).
If a number on a tool looks wrong, or a price has changed, tell us —
the capture data is public in the repo (web/tools/src/lib/data/),
and so are we.