Solo dev adds India-friendly payments to a long-distance-couple micro-SaaS
A based in India built SharedOrbit, a PWA (a website that works like an installable app without an app-store download) for long-distance couples. It started as a personal project for their own relationship and opened up once other couples wanted the same thing. Features include daily questions, streaks, a 'same sky' view, letters that unlock on set dates, a shared memories timeline, a photo wall, and a yearly 'relationship wrapped' style recap.
The stack is Next.js 15, Supabase, and Tailwind, deployed on Netlify. Pricing is $3.99/month or $29/year internationally, and ₹149/month or ₹999/year in India, billed per couple so one partner pays and both get access. For payments, the developer chose over Stripe, Razorpay, or specifically because it acts as a , meaning it handles international tax and on the developer's behalf, and it natively supports both India's UPI payment system and international cards in one checkout flow.
So far, 22 couples have signed up, and the developer is working to get the first paying stranger (not friends or family) through checkout, tracking the funnel in PostHog from invite sent to paired to day-2 return to paywall hit to paid.
Key points
- SharedOrbit is a PWA for long-distance couples: daily questions, streaks, same-sky view, timed letters, shared memories timeline, photo wall, yearly recap
- Stack: Next.js 15, Supabase, Tailwind; deployed on Netlify
- Pricing: $3.99/mo or $29/yr internationally, ₹149/mo or ₹999/yr in India, billed per couple (one payer, two users)
- Chose , a , to avoid handling international tax/ and to support UPI plus international cards in one flow
- 22 couples signed up so far; tracking invite→paired→day-2 return→paywall→paid funnel in PostHog