The Mission

Here at Paperwall, our mission is to connect publishers and readers in a flexible and sustainable way to discover and support quality content online.

Created in 2025, in a time where free speech is being threatened, and a big AI elephant in the room - news, journalism, thought pieces and in depth research needs a new, more financially sustainable solution. Micro-transactions have long been theorized as the ideal approach to accessing quality content online, but this model has struggled to get traction in the past.

PaperWall offers a new solution that aims to address many of these problems and uses modern web technologies to integrate seamlessly on any blog or news publication. It offers a low friction solution and a financial model that works for both readers and writers.

The Story

This project is entirely bootstrapped at this point, built by a team of 1, based in Toronto, Canada, on evenings and weekends, when time allows, with a young family and full time job in tow.

It's still in the early stages, with functionality still being built out, but working steadily towards an initial rollout. If you're interested in getting involved - test it out, contributing in some way or spreading the word, get in contact.