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Stableflow: Self-Hostable Stablecoin Payment Rails for Indie SaaS

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A drop-in Next.js middleware that lets any SaaS accept USDC on Base/Polygon/Arbitrum with subscriptions, webhooks, and a hosted checkout — no Stripe required.

PROBLEM

Indie SaaS founders want to accept stablecoins (USDC/EURC) to reach crypto-native customers and avoid Stripe's 2.9% + risk of sudden account freezes, but cobbling together wagmi checkout, nonce management, subscription state, and refund flows takes weeks per chain.

TARGET USER

Solo SaaS founders and indie hackers selling to crypto-native customers who want USDC/EURC billing without building payment infra.

MVP SCOPE

npm package with Next.js middleware: createCheckoutSession(amount, interval), verifyPayment(headers), webhook handler. Hosted checkout page at pay.stableflow.dev. Dashboard for MRR, churn, refunds. Support USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum at v0.

WHY ME

I've built wagmi + viem payment flows in production; combining that with Stripe-style subscription UX (proration, dunning, refund) is exactly where my skill set compounds.

WHY A GENERALIST CAN'T BUILD IT

Requires deep knowledge of EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization (gasless USDC), EIP-2612 permit signatures, ERC-20 approve race conditions, Base/Polygon/Arbitrum block times and finality differences, x402-style payment-protocol patterns, and the operational edge cases of refunds (you can't 'reverse' an ERC-20 transfer — you need a custodial outflow).

SIGNAL STRENGTH 8.0
MONETIZATION 8.0
TIME TO V0 2.5
FINAL SCORE 5.3
PRICING TIERSMRR@100: $820
Free$0/mo1% per tx, $5k GMV/month cap, hosted checkout, Base + Polygon · Indie hacker accepting their first USDC payments
Growth$49/mo0.6% per tx, $100k GMV/month, multi-chain, subscriptions, webhooks, refunds · Bootstrapped SaaS doing $10k–$50k MRR with crypto customers
Scale$499/mo0.25% per tx, unlimited GMV, custom RPC, white-label checkout, SOC2 · Crypto-native SaaS and protocol teams doing $500k+ stablecoin GMV
MRR@100: $8201st revenue: ~1 moSTABLE profile: Ulises Cryptocreated: 2026-06-26

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