The Founder
I didn't set out to build a community platform. I set out to stop renting one.
I'm Andrew Lee Jenkins. I run a marketing agency, not a software startup. Seedly Communities is the platform I built to run my own community, packaged so you can own it too.
My Story
An operator, not a platform company.
I'm based in the Richmond, Virginia area, and I run a marketing agency for home-service businesses. If you have read the Seedly CRM story, you know how this one starts. I rented the software my whole operation stood on, watched it break in ways I could not fix, and decided I would rather own a thing I can fix than rent a thing I can't. That decision became Seedly.
The community chapter came next. I wanted a home for the people who own Seedly and for my own audience, a room where the conversation belongs to me and the people in it. Every option on the table wanted rent. The polished platforms wanted a monthly fee plus a percentage of every member payment, forever. Facebook was free, but the algorithm owned the relationship and decided which of my own members ever saw a post.
So I built the platform I actually wanted to be a member of. Feed, chat, courses, events, and live video in one login, running on my own accounts under my own domain.
“I didn't build this to sell it. I built it to live in it. Selling it came second.”
It shipped first as a fast-action bonus for Seedly CRM buyers. It got real use, real members, and real feedback, and it kept growing until it was a full product in its own right. Today it stands alone at $399 once, and the community I run every day is on the exact code that comes in the box.
I'm not a SaaS company. I'm an operator who built a tool and decided to sell the tool itself.
How I Stand Behind It
Built like a product, not a side project.
There are no Communities testimonials to show you yet, and I am not going to borrow them from another product. So here is what I can put on the table instead. Receipts, not adjectives.
Not a mockup. The room I hang out in every day.
Want to check the claims yourself? The docs at /docs are public. Read them before you buy, that is what they are there for.
The Kind of Backer I Am
You buy from me, you can email me.
The hardest part of a no-refund purchase from someone you have never heard of is not knowing who is on the other end. So let me be plain about what you are actually getting.
You get me. Support goes to [email protected] and I answer it myself. Ask me anything before you buy and I will tell you straight, including when I think this is not the right fit for you.
You also get the other owners. Every Seedly buyer lands in the same owners community, where people compare notes on what they are building and running on their platforms.
And the license is built to encourage you. Build add-on modules and sell them to other owners, run branded communities for clients, charge your members whatever you want. The only thing off the table is reselling the platform source code itself.
If you're tired of renting your community too, you're in the right place.
I built this platform because I needed it, and I sell it because I think you do too. Not another subscription that holds your members hostage until the day you stop paying. A room you buy once and own forever. Buy it, brand it, and never let an algorithm or a landlord stand between you and your own people again.
That's the whole pitch. No fluff. Same as always.
Andrew Lee Jenkins
Founder, Seedly Communities