No caps, no expiry dates. Just a percentage that follows your referred users forever.
The part most referral programs hide in the footnotes
Most referral programs give you a one-time bonus. You bring someone in, they buy something once, you get a small cut, and that's it. The relationship ends at the first transaction.
teum does it differently. The percentage keeps running — not for a month, not for a year, but for every transaction your referred user makes after that. That detail changes the math entirely.
What the teum referral program actually is
teum is an AI software assets marketplace where indie developers sell prompts, bots, plugins, agents, and workflows. Think of it as a store for the building blocks that other developers actually want to buy and reuse.
The referral program sits on top of that. When you share your referral link and someone signs up, you earn a cut of their activity on the platform — permanently. If you refer a seller, you earn 5% of everything they sell. If you refer a buyer, you earn 3% of everything they spend, once they cross $30 in confirmed purchases.
No caps. No expiry. Those two words are doing a lot of work here.
Why this matters right now
The leaderboard at teum.io/leaderboard is still opening. Total referral payouts in the last 30 days sit at $0.00 — which sounds like a bad sign, but is actually the opposite if you're thinking about positioning.
When a marketplace is new, the early referrers lock in compounding positions before the platform gets crowded. The person who referred the top-selling prompt author in month one keeps earning on every sale that author ever makes. That's not a one-time win.
If you run a developer newsletter, manage a Discord community, or do devrel work, this is the kind of program worth looking at before the obvious influencers get there first.
A concrete example of how the math runs
Say you write a newsletter for indie hackers. You mention teum in one issue. Fifty people click your link. Ten sign up as buyers. Three of them become regular buyers who each spend $200 over the next year.
That's $600 in purchases from three people. At 3%, you'd earn $18 — not huge, but those same three people are still buying next year. And the year after. And you did the work exactly once.
Now flip the scenario: you refer a seller instead. A developer in your community starts selling an agent toolkit that does $500 a month. At 5%, that's $25/month from one referred seller, without touching anything again.
"Refer sellers: 5%. Refer buyers: 3%. Forever." — that sentence rewards the people who genuinely know other builders, not just whoever has the loudest megaphone.
What to try next
If you want to see where you'd stand among early referrers, the leaderboard is live and sparse right now — which means it's readable, and the top spots are still up for grabs.
Get your referral link, share it once somewhere that makes sense for you, and let the compounding do its thing. The leaderboard resets the picture every 30 days, so you can track momentum as the platform grows.
See the leaderboard at teum.io/leaderboard.
Refer sellers: 5%. Refer buyers: 3%. Forever. That sentence rewards the people who genuinely know other builders.