Liym Capital
An album drop with its own storefront.
Overview
Liym Capital is the official site for a recording artist, built around one job: sell the music without a middleman. Visitors land on the album, hear 30-second previews, name their price, pay, and download. The artist runs the catalog, merch, and orders from an admin panel and gets paid directly through his own Stripe account.
The problem
Streaming pays artists fractions of a cent, and the big storefronts take their cut and keep the customer relationship. An independent artist with a real following had no place of his own to sell an album, take pre-orders before release day, or move merch — and no way to see who was actually buying.
The solution
A single site that is the storefront. The album is name-your-price with a minimum, tracks sell individually, pre-orders are charged up front and unlock themselves on release day, and merch ships with flat-rate shipping and sales tax handled. Downloads are secure, time-limited links from private storage. Stripe Connect sends every sale to the artist's own bank account, with the site's owner named as the seller on the receipt.
Key features
- Album drop with 30-second previews, name-your-price pricing, and per-track purchases
- Pre-orders charged at purchase that unlock automatically on release day, with buyers emailed their download links
- Secure downloads — files live in private cloud storage and every link expires
- Merch with sizes, stock, flat-rate shipping, and sales tax calculated at checkout
- Admin panel for the catalog, orders, and messages, with separate logins for the artist and the studio
- Videos, about, booking and press contact, legal pages, and first-party analytics — no third-party trackers
Stack
Next.js on Vercel with a Postgres database, Stripe Checkout and Stripe Connect for payments (the artist's account is the merchant of record), Cloudflare R2 for the audio masters and downloads, Resend for order emails, and a scheduled job that releases pre-orders on the drop date. Security headers, signed download links, and webhook signature checks are in place, and the build passed two security reviews before launch.
Status
Live at liym-capital.com and taking real orders. Built on Blueprint's music-artist template, so the next artist site starts from a proven base.