We're Live: Launch Day — and the First Seats Sold Before the Doors Opened

Sam Bakker · Founder, GoCushy · July 28, 2026

Launch day. This morning I ran the launch webinar, and as of right now the founding cart is open to everyone. If you've been following the build in public — the honest ledger, the comparisons, the agentic-economy thesis — this is the week it all pointed at.

The first sales came before the doors opened

Here's the part I want on the record, because it's the best product validation we've had: the first two founding members bought before the doors officially opened. They found the checkout ahead of the announcement and paid — one took the base membership, one added the Worldwide Tax & Affiliates Pack. No urgency sequence, no retargeting, no "last chance" email. Two people looked at what this is and decided they wanted a seat before we asked anyone to take one.

There's a small irony I'll own: those first orders went through the same machinery we'd spent the week war-gaming — the atomic seat lock, the fulfillment safety nets, the invoice sequence — and everything held. First real money, first real invoices, zero manual intervention. The system we built for seat 200 worked fine for seat 1.

What a founding seat is

• $195, once. Not a subscription. Lifetime access to GoCushy.
• 0% platform fees, for life. Every sale you ever run, you keep everything except your processor's own standard rate — that part belongs to Stripe or PayPal, not us, and never did.
• Your money on your accounts. Stripe and PayPal both run first-party. GoCushy never holds your funds and never becomes your merchant of record.
• An AI-operated store. Your agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor — creates products, composes offers with bumps and one-click upsells, sets coupons, issues refunds, reads your sales. You describe; it operates.
• 200 seats, hard-capped. The cap is enforced where money moves — when seat 200 sells, the server stops selling, mid-checkout if it has to.
• Optional +$95 pack: Worldwide Tax & Affiliates — Stripe Tax on your registrations, sequential compliant invoices, your own affiliate program, and 3 team seats.

The honest clock

The cart closes Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 11:59pm ET — or the moment seat 200 sells, whichever comes first. I've written before about honest countdowns: ours isn't a marketing graphic, it's a server rule. At 11:59:59 the checkout stops accepting new orders. Buyers mid-payment complete; nobody gets a "sorry, you missed it" after paying. That's how deadlines should work when real money is involved — and it's how the deadline on your offers works on GoCushy too.

To the two who got here before we did: thank you. Seats 3 through 200 — the door's open until Saturday night.

Sam Bakker is the founder of GoCushy. He has a long track record building launch and funnel software for creators, and builds from New Zealand.