Who it is for

For side projects, community funds, shop counters, and plenty more.

Kulhad works the same for everyone. What changes is why people send something, and what you put on the page.

Some people call it a tip jar, some call it a donation page, and a shopkeeper just calls it the QR at the counter. It is one page either way: your UPI ID, your amounts, and the messages you decide to show.

People who sell face to face

  • A QR code for shops, stalls and counters

    A printed QR beside the counter, for the regulars who keep saying they owe you a chai. The same code works for a tailor, a salon, a repair shop or a tea stall, and it needs no card machine and no monthly rent.

People who collect for others

  • A donation page for causes, trusts and temples

    A temple repair, a school trip, a neighbourhood clean-up, a relief drive. One page, one QR, and a wall showing who has chipped in so far, which is the part that makes the next person give.

People who build things

  • A support page for developers and open source

    The library everyone depends on is maintained on evenings and weekends. Sponsorship elsewhere wants a Stripe account and a company; this wants a UPI ID and a README badge, and the money lands in your bank the same day.

  • A support page for writers and newsletters

    A paywall loses the readers who cannot pay. A kulhad page keeps everything open and lets the ones who can help, help. The same page works for a freelancer sending an invoice that has gone quiet.

  • A payment page for photographers and videographers

    Shoots are seasonal and somebody else decides when the payment clears. The couple whose wedding you shot can send something the week they see the album, without you chasing anyone.

People with an audience

  • For creators working in Indian languages

    Reels and videos in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil or Bhojpuri reach people no brand deal has noticed yet. Your audience can pay you directly, in rupees, today, and your page reads in the language they think in.

  • A support page for teachers and tutors

    You put the whole syllabus on YouTube for free and someone passed because of it. This is where they say more than a comment can carry, and where a tuition batch can settle the month without an envelope.

  • For streamers and video makers

    The platform takes its share and pays whenever it feels like it. This pays in rupees, into your UPI, the same day. There is a goal bar you can put on the stream, and it fills while people watch.

  • A tip jar for artists and illustrators

    Commissions arrive in clumps with long gaps between them. Small amounts from people who follow the work fill some of the gap, and the wall of messages is the part you reread on a bad week.

  • A tip jar for musicians and performers

    Gigs pay late and unevenly. A page gives the people who were at the show somewhere to put a hundred rupees on the way home, and a QR on the case does the same job the open case used to.

  • For podcasters

    Downloads are not money and sponsors want numbers you do not have yet. The people already listening can carry the hosting bill, and one line at the end of an episode is the whole ask.

  • For fitness and yoga instructors

    The morning class in the park is free and always has been. This gives the regulars a way to keep it going without turning it into a subscription nobody wanted.

And plenty of people not on this list

There is no approved list of trades. If people already thank you for something, a Kulhad page gives them somewhere to do it, and the money reaches you the same way whoever you are.

  • Tailors
  • Tuition centres
  • Home chefs and tiffin services
  • Astrologers and priests
  • Translators and proofreaders
  • Gym trainers
  • Book clubs
  • Repair shops
  • Wedding bands
  • Temple and gurudwara funds
  • Stand-up comics
  • Local news letters

  • 1,000

    subscribers, before one platform will pay you

  • 10,000

    followers, before another one will

  • 4,000

    watch hours, inside a single year

  • 0

    before your Kulhad page works

You do not need a thousand subscribers before anyone can pay you

Every platform has a number you have to reach before it will pay you anything, and those numbers exist because the platform is selling ads against you and needs enough of you to sell. Nobody is selling ads here.

  • The money comes from a person who wanted to send it, not from an advertiser who had to be found first.
  • A page works on the day you make it, with eleven followers or with none.
  • one chai
  • shagun
  • chai and samosa
  • dakshina
  • supporter

Your words, not ours

The amounts on your page carry your words, not ours. Pick a set in settings, or write your own on each amount. Naming them after something real, a chai or a shagun, saves a supporter guessing what is normal here.

Put it wherever people already find you

A link in your bio, a button on your site, a QR code taped beside the counter, a goal bar in a newsletter. The page is one line of HTML away from anywhere.

A page of your own

One address to put in a bio, print on a card, or read out loud.

kulhad.co/yourname

A QR to print

Tape it beside the counter. Any UPI app scans it and lands on your page.

A button for your site

One line to paste. It works on a blog, a shop or a README.

A wall of thank-yous

Messages from the people who supported you, published only after you approve them.

Whichever one sounds like you, the page is the same.

Your name, your UPI ID, and your own words on the amounts. Free, and no cut of anything people send.

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