For makers who sell what they make
Sold out before you set up.
Your own storefront for handmade goods. Post a drop, your regulars order and pay in advance, and you make exactly what's sold — then hand it over at pickup. No DM pile. No "I'll Venmo you later."
From our family micro-bakery in Texas · in final testing now · your store, your customers, your name on it
The porch light's on — drop live
Your DMs were never meant to be an order system.
The message pile
Every order is five to eight messages. At twenty customers that's a hundred-plus messages a week — and every missed one is a lost sale.
The payment chase
"I'll Venmo you later" — and later never comes. Payment apps move money; they don't take orders, schedule pickups, or remind anyone.
The market-day gamble
Booth fees, ingredients, gas, a 5am start — then weather or foot traffic decides whether you drive home with money or leftovers.
A drop is your week, in order.
One link does what your DMs, spreadsheet, payment app and notebook were doing together.
1 · Announce
Set what you're making, how many, and the pickup window. Share one link in your bio, your stories, and your group chats.
2 · Order
Customers pick options, add extras, and pay by card in seconds — as guests, with no account to create. You watch the batch sell, not your inbox.
3 · Make
One clean order list, with a live count of sold against what you set. Make exactly what's sold — no overbaking, no guessing, no sticky notes.
4 · Hand off
Every order carries a QR pickup pass. Scan it at the porch or the market and it's marked collected. If someone never shows, there's a proper flow to sort it out — not a guessing game.
The part nobody else solves
It keeps working when the signal doesn't.
Markets lose signal. Barns, parking lots, church halls, the far corner of a fairground — one bar, then none. That's exactly when you need to check off orders.
Install Makers Porch on your phone and the pickup screen keeps running with no connection at all. Hand off orders, mark them collected, keep the line moving. When the signal comes back, everything syncs on its own.
No signal is not an outage. It's a Tuesday at the market.
Made for how you actually sell.
Walk into market day already sold out
Pre-sell your batch before the market opens. Your best customers' orders are locked in — and paid — before anyone walks past a competing stall. Rain can cancel foot traffic; it can't cancel a pre-paid order.
Your name on the door, not ours
You're not one listing among millions, and there's no feed to get buried in. Customers come to your store through your link, and the relationship stays yours. We're the engine behind your name — never a mall in front of it.
Sell exactly what you make
Sizes, flavours, add-ons and extras all price correctly at checkout. Set a limit per product so you never sell more sourdough than you have hands for. Duplicate last week's drop and shift the dates in one step.
Built for how cottage food actually works
Pickup and hand-off aren't workarounds here — they're the whole design. Texas cottage food is sold in person, not shipped, and a shipping-first platform can't run that. Your porch can.
Built by an operator, for operators
We didn't interview makers. We are one.
Makers Porch started on an actual porch: our own family micro-bakery in Texas, taking orders in Instagram DMs and tracking them in a notebook. The DMs became unmanageable long before the ovens did — so we built the tool we needed.
We're in final testing.
Every feature answers a problem we had on that porch.
Fair questions, straight answers
"Will my customers actually use it?"
They tap your link, pick, and pay — no app to download, no account to create. If they can order from a story link, they can order from you.
"I don't have time to set up a website."
This isn't a website project. It's an evening: your products, your pickup spot, your first drop. If you can post to Instagram, you can open your store.
"Is this another platform that buries me?"
There's no feed to get buried in and no directory to rank in. Your customers reach your store through the link you give them — that's the only way in, by design.
"What if I sell at markets with no signal?"
That's the case we built for. The pickup screen works offline on your phone and syncs when the signal returns.
"What does it cost?"
Founding vendors help us set that, and we'll walk you through it plainly before you commit to anything. Ask us — no fee stack, no surprise charges.
Founding vendors get first place at the table.
We're opening to a small first group of makers — food first, plus a few adjacent crafts. We're Texas-born, but makers anywhere in the U.S. are welcome. Founding vendors get hands-on setup help and a real say in what gets built next.
Raise your hand — become a founding vendor
One email. Tell us what you make and where you are — we'll take it from there.