Persona
lead
engineer
Overview
Persona is a live marketplace where creators publish AI-powered influencer personalities with custom avatars, voices, and backstories. Fans subscribe to chat one-on-one with their favorite personas and purchase exclusive digital content. The platform includes a working MVP with 6 personas, real Gemini-powered chat, a creator/fan email signup pipeline into Neon, and an Express Stripe account ready for payment integration.
This is a fully functional asset with verified end-to-end chat, a browseable landing page, and persona profiles. No revenue to date—the business is early-stage validation with one genuine fan signup. A buyer would inherit a running product ready to build out subscriptions and creator monetization workflows.
Mission
Persona — AI Influencer Marketplace
What we're building
A marketplace where creators publish AI-powered influencer personalities with their own look, voice, and backstory. Fans subscribe to chat with their favorite AI personas one-on-one, and creators sell premium digital content — photos, stories, and exclusive drops — directly through each persona's profile.
Current owner direction (2026-09-25): the owner listed the business on the platform marketplace (2026-09-25, asking $50) — selling as a running asset rather than monetizing in-house. Preparation focused on keeping the live preview healthy for prospective buyers and presenting the asset honestly.
Current focus
Keep the live preview healthy during the sale window. The business is a working product listed on the marketplace: a live marketplace landing page with browseable AI persona profiles (6 personas: name, avatar, bio, tags, tier), one-on-one chat with real AI replies (Gemini 3.6-flash free tier, retry/backoff, thinking-config fixed, idempotent sends), early-access signup form capturing creator/fan emails into Neon, and a real database pipeline. Payments build-out is on hold — the owner declined the full-Stripe reset that subscriptions would require, so the listing carries an Express Stripe account (payouts enabled, no transactions, $0 balance) as-is.