This page tells you exactly what Venoly is, what we can give you today, what we intend to pay once we have revenue, and every reason you might want to turn us down. No deck, no pitch call. Read it in five minutes and decide.
We are small and we are not yet making money.
Venoly is built by a tiny team in the Netherlands. The platform is live and people use it every day, but automated billing isn’t switched on yet — upgrades are currently activated by hand. That means we cannot pay you a normal sponsorship rate right now.
We’d rather you hear that from us on the first screen than find out on a call. Everything below is written on that basis: real perks we can hand over today, and a plain statement of what we intend to pay once money is coming in. If you need a paid deal now, this isn’t the right time for us — and no hard feelings.
It’s a chat platform with the shape you already know — servers, channels, roles, voice, video, screen share. If you’ve run a Discord server, you can run a Venoly server without reading a manual.
The difference is underneath. Venoly is built security-first: the anti-abuse layer is a real policy engine rather than a keyword list, the company is in the EU under GDPR, and there are no ads and no third-party trackers anywhere in the product. Nearly everything is free, including the things other platforms charge for.
| Area | What’s in it |
|---|---|
| Servers | Unlimited servers and members. Text, voice and forum channels, threads, roles with per-channel permission overrides, webhooks, slash commands, onboarding wizard. |
| Voice & video | Always-on voice rooms (no link sharing), 720p video, screen share, noise suppression, soundboard, and spatial rooms — a map you walk around on, where distance sets how loud each person is: full volume up close, fading to silence further away. |
| Games | Two games built into the client: Ascendant, a co-op action-roguelite with seasons and server-vs-server leaderboards, and Server Empire, a management game about growing a server business. |
| Customisation | 14 built-in themes plus a full custom palette, animated avatars and banners, profile effects, custom emoji status. |
| Marketplace | Themes, emoji packs, stickers, server templates, soundboards, bot apps and AI personas — made and sold by the community. |
| Moderation | Auto-mod rules, content filters, full audit logs, raid protection with join-velocity detection and auto-lock, verification levels, AI moderation suggestions. |
| Monetisation | Paid roles, channel access and subscriptions are built on Stripe Connect but not switched on yet — there is no live checkout today. When it launches, Venoly’s cut is 5%. |
| Platforms | Web, desktop app for Windows and Linux, and an Android app you download from venoly.nl. No iOS app, and no date for one. |
These are the parts worth pointing a camera at. Everything else is table stakes.
Venoly’s abuse defence runs on a policy language we wrote. Rules live in plain files, get compiled, and are evaluated on every relevant request — deciding in real time whether to block, throttle, warn or flag. Twelve policies run live, covering spam, raids, login attacks and uploads; eight of them can block or slow a request, and the rest watch and log.
Run from the Netherlands under GDPR. No third-party trackers, no advertising anywhere in the product — not now, not planned. Messages are encrypted at rest in an internal vault, and a deleted account is purged after 30 days. Two-factor auth, uploads scanned for malware, captchas on the actions that actually get abused.
Raid Radar shows abuse reports across the platform in the open rather than hiding incident data. Combined with automatic raid lockdown and captcha gates on joins, it targets the 3am botnet problem that makes running a community miserable.
Animated avatars and banners, profile effects, every theme, voice rooms, threads, server analytics, audit logs, the built-in games — free. Plus is a small individual upgrade, and boosts are how a community pools to unlock server-wide perks. We don’t charge for looking good.
“New Discord alternative” is a tired hook and your audience has heard it. These land better, depending on who watches you:
No performance targets, no minimum view count, no exclusivity. These are yours whether the video does 500 views or 500,000.
The full individual upgrade on your account, for as long as you have it. Larger uploads, more storage, the lot.
We push your server to the top boost level and add a verification badge: a vanity invite link, a server banner and invite background, 384 kbps voice audio and 250 emoji slots.
A creator badge that’s yours alone on your profile, plus a slot in the partner showcase inside the app where our users will see it.
One to two marketplace commissions a month, on us — up to €10 each. Custom themes, emoji packs, artwork, whatever you want made by creators on the platform. You pick it, we pay for it.
Not a support queue. Early builds before release, and real input on the roadmap — if you tell us your community needs something, it gets taken seriously.
When something good happens on our end, partners get a share of it. We won’t pretend to schedule these — they show up when there’s something to give.
A flat monthly amount — not a revenue share, not a per-video rate you have to chase. It starts small because we are small, and it goes up as we do.
We are not putting a date on this, because we don’t know it and a made-up date is just a lie with a calendar attached. It depends on billing going live and on people paying for Plus and boosts.
If the money never comes, you are owed nothing and you keep every perk in the section above. That’s the honest shape of the deal: the perks are real and immediate, the cash is an intention we fully mean and cannot yet guarantee. Judge us on which one you’re being asked to take on faith.
You’d find these out anyway, and you’d trust us less for having to. Here they are first.
Yes, and we insist on it. If we’ve given you anything of value — the perks count, not just cash — say so clearly in the video and in the description. That’s the law in the EU, the UK and the US, and it’s also just correct. A partner who hides it is no use to us, because the moment it comes out it damages both of us.
Yes. There’s no approval process and no script you’re obliged to follow. If something is broken or missing, say it. We published our own weak points on this page — we’re not going to object to you repeating them. All we ask is that you don’t state things that are factually untrue about us in either direction, good or bad.
None of those. No exclusivity, no view minimums, no obligation to make a second video, and you can walk away whenever you like. If we start paying a monthly rate we’ll put that in writing, because money should be written down — but nothing about it will lock you in.
Fair question. Venoly is a registered Dutch company with published legal terms, a privacy policy, a DPA and a transparency report — all reachable from the site footer. The product is live and you can sign up and use it fully before you agree to anything. We’d suggest doing exactly that: use it for a week first, then decide.
We intend to be, and we’re building as though we will. But we’re not going to give you a confident yes to a question no small company can honestly answer. That’s part of what you’re weighing up.
One honest mention, in your own voice, to an audience that might genuinely like this. That’s it. A dedicated video is welcome but not expected — a well-placed thirty seconds from someone whose audience trusts them is worth more to us than a rushed ten-minute review.
Yes — the boost perks apply to your whole server, so everyone in it gets 384 kbps voice audio and 250 emoji slots to use. If you want something specific for your community, ask. We’re small enough to say yes to things.
Please don’t read this verbatim. It’s here so you know what matters and roughly how long it runs. Your audience can tell the difference between you talking and you reading, and the version in your own words will always work better.
Facts worth keeping accurate: it’s free, it’s EU-based, there are no ads or trackers, and the security rules are readable. Everything else is yours to rewrite.
If your server has ever been raided at three in the morning, this next bit is for you.
Venoly is a chat platform — servers, channels, voice, all the stuff you already know how to use. The difference is what’s underneath it.
It runs an actual security engine. Real written rules that decide, live, whether something gets blocked, slowed down or flagged. And you can read the rules. That’s not normal.
It’s small. Tiny team, based in the Netherlands. No ads, no third-party trackers, and the cosmetics aren’t paywalled — animated profiles, custom themes, all free. There’s a co-op game built in too, which is a dangerous thing to tell my chat about.
It’s not trying to replace Discord tomorrow. It’s trying to be the one that doesn’t fall over when someone points a botnet at your community. It’s free — venoly.nl, link’s in the description. And yes, they’re supporting the channel; I’ll always tell you when that’s the case.
Make an account and use Venoly for a week before you agree to anything. When you’re ready, the application page lists the handful of requirements and tells you exactly what to send.
Venoly · Emmen, Netherlands · This brief describes perks available today and payment we intend to make once the platform has revenue. Future payment is a stated intention, not a guarantee, and carries no date. Perks listed under “What you get now” are not conditional on it.
