$0 to start4 services· 4 auto-onboard

$0 Creator Stack

Content creators, newsletter writers, digital-product makers

Build an audience and sell digital products starting at $0

Everything a solo creator needs to publish, grow, and sell. You can run this stack for $0/month until you hit 1K email subscribers and start monetizing. SPARKi monitors all four services and tells you when you need to upgrade.

What's in the box

Every service has a transparent affiliate disclosure. Most have none.

Kit (ConvertKit)

✓ wizard

Email list + broadcasts

Free tier: 1,000 subscribers, unlimited broadcasts
💰💰 SPARKi earns 50% × 12 months if you upgrade from the free tier
When to upgrade: Approaching 1,000 subscribers → Kit Creator (~$29/mo for 1K subs, scales up) ↗

Tally

✓ wizard

Forms, signups, lead capture

Free tier: Unlimited forms, unlimited submissions
💰💰 SPARKi earns 20% (capped $150) if you upgrade
When to upgrade: Need team features, custom domain, or advanced logic → Tally Pro (~$29/mo) ↗

Notion

✓ wizard

Content planning, docs, CRM

Free tier: Personal workspace, unlimited pages
No affiliate — SPARKi gets nothing from this recommendation
When to upgrade: Need multi-user collaboration or larger file uploads → Notion Plus (~$10/user/mo) ↗

Payhip

✓ wizard

Digital product store, subscriptions

Free tier: Free plan with 5% transaction fee (no monthly cost)
💰💰 SPARKi earns 50% FOREVER if you upgrade — full disclosure: this is our highest-leverage affiliate relationship
When to upgrade: Volume where 5% per-sale fee exceeds a flat subscription → Payhip Pro ($29/mo, 2% fee) or Plus ($99/mo, 0% fee) ↗

How to set it up

4 of 4 services are onboarded automatically by SPARKi's wizard. The rest you set up by following the steps below.

  1. 1Create accounts on Kit, Tally, Notion, and Payhip — any order
  2. 2Kit: grab v4 API key from app.kit.com/account_settings/advanced_settings
  3. 3Tally: grab API key from tally.so/settings/api
  4. 4Notion: create an internal integration at notion.so/my-integrations and copy the secret; share the pages you want SPARKi to see
  5. 5Payhip: grab API key from Settings → Developer; configure a webhook at https://sparki-mcp.cleff.io/webhooks/payhip subscribing to paid/refunded/subscription.created/subscription.deleted events
  6. 6Add KIT_API_KEY, TALLY_API_KEY, NOTION_INTEGRATION_TOKEN, PAYHIP_API_KEY to SPARKy .env
  7. 7Add the providers block to your project in sparky.config.yaml
  8. 8Restart SPARKy with `pm2 restart sparky --update-env`
  9. 9Verify with `/sparki check creator stack status`

Ready? SPARKi can onboard most of this for you.

Open SPARKi and run /sparki start creatorfor <your-project> in a direct message. SPARKi will walk you through 4 services one at a time, verify each API key live, and write the config automatically.

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