100% of everything your referrals pay in their first 12 months goes to you — then 50% every month, for life. Most SaaS pays 30%. We'd rather pay the React Native community than ad platforms.
Already powering apps used by tens of millions every week
Solo is $9/month. Year one, every dollar of it is yours. After that, half — forever. (Company seats pay far more — see below.)
$9/mo × 100% = $9/referral/mo for their first year, then $4.50/mo for life. The 12-month clock starts when each subscriber signs up — a referral two years from now still pays you 100% for their first year.
Buoy isn't just for developers. QA replays network requests, support impersonates users to see exactly what they see, PMs edit live data with the React Query tools — and teams build their own custom tools on top. Get it adopted at work and every seat counts as your referral. A rough rule: 2–3× your mobile dev count once QA, support, and product are in.
Computed at the $45/seat/mo Business list price. Volume discounts kick in at 10+ seats and reduce the seat price (and your payout) proportionally — your company locks in at what they sign up for.
Because year one is your revenue, the discount your audience gets is your call — up to 50% off their first year, or their first 3 months free. Tell us the number and we set it on your code.
Your audience pays $9/mo
Your audience pays $0 for 3 months, then $9/mo
Your audience pays $4.50/mo for a year
Per Solo referral, at $9/mo — company seats scale the same way at Business pricing. Notice the bottom row never changes — the deal you give your audience comes out of your year one, never your lifetime 50%.
Because devtools spread by word of mouth, not ad campaigns. We'd rather our next thousand customers come from people the React Native community already trusts — and pay those people everything — than hand the same money to ad platforms.
Every payment your referral makes in their first 12 months is paid out to you in full. And the clock is per subscriber — it starts the day they sign up, not the day you joined.
Not 12 months. Not 24 months. Half of every payment, forever, for as long as your referral stays subscribed. One video can pay you for years.
Every Buoy tool is free to use — Pro just lifts the caps. Your audience installs it for nothing, so featuring it carries zero reputation risk. Upgrades happen later, on real projects.
No application process, no wait time. Sign up, get your unique link, and start earning immediately.
Your link's 30-day cookie covers delayed signups. Running a named discount code too? Every order logs the code used — if someone buys with your code but without your link, we credit you manually.
Paid monthly via Lemon Squeezy, $10 minimum threshold. No complicated tiers, no hidden fees.
No complicated setup. No hoops to jump through. Just sign up and start earning.
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Add it to your videos, course resources, blog, Discord — anywhere React Native developers hang out.
You keep 100% of what your referrals pay in their first year, then 50% of every payment for life.
If React Native developers listen to you, this is the highest-paying way to point them at a tool they'll thank you for.
Debug with Buoy on screen and your students will copy your setup — it's free for them to install. You earn 100% of every upgrade for that student's first year.
Use it in a debugging video and drop your link in the description. The 30-day cookie catches delayed signups, and purchases made with your discount code get credited too — code use is logged on every order.
Add your link to your blog, GitHub repos, or forum answers. Share a tool you actually use, get paid when fellow devs discover it through you.
Discord mods, meetup organizers, newsletter writers — share a free tool that makes your members' lives easier and keep everything their upgrades pay for a year.
We give lifetime Pro keys to course instructors, YouTubers, and bootcamp teachers — no strings, before you decide anything about the program. Email us and tell us where you teach.
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For each referral's first 12 months, you keep 100% of what they pay — $9/month ($108/year) on Solo, $45/seat/month ($540/seat/year) on Business. After that you earn 50% for as long as they stay subscribed. Refer 100 solo developers and that's $900/month in year one, then $5,400/year for life — and one company adopting Buoy pays like dozens of referrals at once.
There isn't one — we just make our money starting in year two. Devtools spread by word of mouth, so we'd rather pay the React Native community everything up front to put Buoy in more hands than spend the same budget on ads. You take the year-one revenue; we keep the long-term customer.
No — the 12-month clock is per subscriber. It starts the day each referral signs up. Someone you refer two years from now still pays you 100% for their entire first year.
Yes — you pick the deal, up to 50% off their first year or their first 3 months free, and we set it on a coupon code named after you. The discount scales your year-one earnings (it's your revenue), but your 50%-for-life never changes.
Recurring, for life. You earn every single month for as long as your referral keeps their subscription active. One video or blog post can pay you for years.
Both, but this page is the fine print. The signup page's figure is auto-generated by Lemon Squeezy from the year-one rate applied to plan prices. The full structure is what's described here: 100% of each referral's payments for their first 12 months, then 50% for life. This page is the canonical terms of the program.
Through Lemon Squeezy, on their standard schedule: commissions are held 30 days to cover refunds, then included in payouts generated on the 1st and 15th of each month. In practice, money lands roughly 30–45 days after the sale.
$10. We kept it low so you can start seeing real money quickly, not wait months to hit some arbitrary threshold.
No. Sign up and you're in. We auto-approve everyone because we trust our community. Get your link and start earning immediately.
Your link sets a 30-day cookie, so delayed signups still credit you. Running a named discount code as well? Every order records the code used — if someone buys with your code but never clicked your link, email us and we'll credit it to you manually.
Every Buoy tool is free to use, so most of your audience will start there. If they upgrade within your 30-day cookie window you get full credit — and if they upgrade later using your discount code, we credit you manually from the order log.
Yes — that's the dream outcome. If Buoy gets adopted at work because of you, every seat your company subscribes counts as your referral — and seats aren't just developers: QA uses the network tools, support impersonates users, PMs edit live data. Most teams land at 2–3× their mobile dev count. 100 Business seats at $45 is $4,500/month to you in year one, then $2,250/month for life. Volume discounts at 10+ seats reduce the seat price (and payouts) proportionally, and your company locks in at what they sign up for.
No — personal self-referrals aren't paid out (referring your employer is different, and very much counts). If you're producing content about Buoy, email us instead: we give lifetime Pro keys to educators and creators for free.
Lemon Squeezy takes a 1% processing fee from affiliate payouts. On $9, you receive $8.91. We eat all other fees.
Every Business seat is $540 in your pocket its first year — then $270/year for life.
Sign up in 2 minutes, get your link, set your audience's deal. This is the program's launch rate — it won't stay this high forever.
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