fr3n: Townsquare, Shopify Integration, and Investor Talks

by Oskar Freye

November brought community feeds, Shopify product imports, subscription management, and the start of investor conversations.

fr3n Townsquare and Shopify Integration

November was one of those months where everything moved at once. New features, new integrations, and a completely new direction for the business side.

Townsquare: The Community Hub

The biggest feature drop: Townsquare — a central community feed that lives as a third tab in the fan experience. Think of it as a mix between a forum and a social feed, but scoped to each creator’s community. Built with a Zustand store for real-time state management on the client, connected to the API through the TownsquareFeed component.

Shopify Commerce Bridge

The commerce bridge now speaks Shopify. Creators can connect their Shopify store, browse products from their catalog, and import them — individually or in bulk — directly into fr3n. The import maps Shopify’s GraphQL product structure to our internal format, handling variants, inventory items, weight units, and thumbnails.

The integration detail page got a tabbed interface: Overview, Products, and Imported. Much cleaner than the single-page dump we had before.

Subscription Management

Fans can now actually manage their subscriptions. Cancel, reactivate, see their renewal dates, check their current period. The UI shows localized dates and clear status indicators. On the API side, we fetch subscription info from Stripe and backfill period dates.

I also shipped post-purchase content — creators can add rich content that fans see after buying a product. It uses a TipTap editor in the product form, stored as HTML, rendered on the entitlement page.

The Landing Page Redesign

We redesigned the landing page with glassy feature cards, a responsive hero section with device-specific tile positioning, and social proof. The marketing copy got simplified to focus on product benefits. “1000+ creators” as the trusted-by proof. Three languages supported.

Investor Documentation

The quiet milestone: I started building an investor dataroom. Technical architecture overview, roadmap, traction data, user journey documentation. Having real revenue and real users makes these conversations different from the pitch-deck-and-a-dream stage.

The API also got a security and performance audit pass via automated branch merges. Small fixes, but they add up.

Version 0.10.x. Getting serious.