I've been building free Solana tools over the past few months. Some of them get decent traffic. All of them funnel into paid products. Here's the stack:
Free Tools (SEO traffic drivers)
Wallet Balance Checker — Enter any Solana address, see SOL balance and all token holdings instantly. devtools-site-delta.vercel.app/sol-balance
Price Tracker — Live SOL price + look up any token by mint address via Jupiter API. devtools-site-delta.vercel.app/sol-price
Airdrop Checker — Scan any wallet for token holdings — find unclaimed airdrops and forgotten tokens. devtools-site-delta.vercel.app/airdrop-checker
Token Safety Scanner — Score any token 0-100 on rug pull risk signals. Free tier is 10 scans/minute. devtools-site-delta.vercel.app/is-safe
Paid Products (revenue)
Each free tool has a CTA at the bottom pointing to paid products:
- Trading Bot (free + 1% fees) — t.me/solscanitbot
- Sniper Service (0.2-5 SOL/month) — /sniper
- Whale Tracker (free + premium) — /whale-tracker
- Payment Buttons (2% per tx) — /sol-pay
- Bot Templates (0.3-1 SOL) — /templates
- Scanner API (0.08-0.4 SOL/key) — /api-access
The pattern: build a free tool that ranks for a high-volume search query. Put paid product CTAs at the bottom. Let SEO compound over time.
Total hosting cost: \/bin/zsh (Vercel free tier). All payments in SOL — no Stripe, no processing fees.
Top comments (0)