💡 SaaS Idea: Gatehouse: Membership paywall for Notion pages and Slack/Discord access

Creator-focused paywall that sells Notion page bundles and auto-provisions Slack/Discord invites. Handles renewals, failed payment dunning, and churn prevention with coupons and proration.

Platform: web

Why it's a good idea?

Market pain / problem

Creators routinely sell Notion templates, handbooks, or entire knowledge-bases and then pair them with a private community (Slack / Discord).

  • Notion has no native paywall – the only official way to sell a template is to make the page ‘Duplicate’ and give buyers a link. This is one-off, no renewals, no revocation and no bundle/plan management.
  • Slack & Discord both need manual invites or 3rd-party bots to tie membership to payments.
    Pain points mentioned repeatedly on indie-hacker & Reddit threads: revoking access after failed payment, handling renewals, coupons, and offering bundles that include both Notion content + community.

Existing solutions / competitors

  1. LaunchPass – subscription paywall for Slack & Discord (no Notion integration).
  2. Whop – marketplace + Discord/SaaS license handling. Recently added Google-Drive & ‘files’ gating but no Notion pages.
  3. Memberstack / Outseta / Lemon Squeezy – can gate a SITE built with Super/Potion but not native Notion pages; and no automated community invites.
  4. Paytable (very small) – one-time paywall for Notion tables only.
  5. Gumroad – typical one-off “pay and get duplicate lin...
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