“we have product pages... 42,000 founders have created products they share often share their revenue that's like stripe verified... we're just we're choosing not to monetize it right now because we don't have to and it it is useful to the community but we have that switch to flip on we don't touch it”

Build a monetization switch you keep turned off

Some of your most valuable assets should sit deliberately unmonetized as optionality. The 42K-product directory with Stripe-verified revenue gets scraped daily and has investors DMing offers to buy access — they keep it free because the switch exists for when they actually need it. Build the asset, gather the data, refuse the easy $20/month tier; preserve the bigger deal that surfaces later.