The Painted Porch Project · Vol. I

ThePaintedTreekeptyourclients.We’re giving them back.

When the floor went dark, ten thousand independent shops lost their storefront, their foot traffic, and a customer list they were never allowed to own. We’re an accelerator that builds platforms when the off-the-shelf ones fail the people making real things. This is what we built for you.

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They bet the whole business on floorspace. The market moved without them.

Painted Tree didn’t fall because their vendors stopped making beautiful things. They fell because the model was already over. Buyers stopped driving to a shared retail floor to find what the makers made; they opened their phones instead. The wholesale calculus of rent plus commission on someone else’s floor only ever worked when foot traffic paid for itself. It hadn’t for years.

The vendors learned by midnight email. A ten-day deadline to clear inventory. A customer list they’d been quietly building for a decade locked behind someone else’s wall. Booth deposits in the wind. A trustee’s phone number where the manager used to be.

We’re not here to write a eulogy. We’re here to hand you what you should have had the whole time.

Sources: vendor email (Painted Tree Boutiques, April 14, 2026); In re Painted Tree Marketplace, LLC, Case No. 26-32919, S.D. Tex. Read the case timeline →

The offer · underwritten by DotWin LLC

A $10,000 website.
Absolutely free.

Real designer-grade ecommerce. Built for your shop, in your voice, on your domain. Delivered in forty-eight hours. We take zero dollars from you to build it. The site is yours, the customer list is yours, the Stripe payouts go to your bank. The cohort is capped because we’re a small team and we ship the build with our hands on it. When the seats fill, the cohort closes.

Your own domain, in your name
No subdomain. No platform branding. The address you give your customers belongs to you.
Bespoke design, not a template picker
We pull color, voice, and composition from your brand. You review one round. We ship.
Catalog loaded for you
Every product photographed, priced, variant-mapped, and described in your tone.
Stripe payouts to your bank
You own the merchant account. We never hold your money. No platform reserve.
Porch + ship + marketplace, wired
Local pickup, the national Porch Pro network, and the Painted Porch Marketplace, on day one.
Sixty-day "we fix what breaks" warranty
A real human, in a real Slack, fixing real problems while you focus on making.

Claim my free build — 60 seconds

No credit card. No contract. No cent. Upload your photos, tell us your shop name, the rest is on us.

Cohort 2· live count

of 50 free-build seats remaining

Each seat is a designer-grade ecommerce site, built by us, delivered in 48 hours, at our expense. When the count hits zero, the cohort closes.

We’ve spent years working alongside small businesses on the part of the business that nobody wants to look at. The margins. The customer list. The five different platforms held together with rubber bands. The honest answer to the question, do you actually own this?

When Painted Tree closed, we didn’t feel angry. We felt familiar. We’ve watched this exact thing happen to good operators on Etsy when the search algorithm changed, on Pier 1’s wholesale floor, on every booth that ever charged rent and commission on top of it. The stores were never the problem. The leverage was. The leverage belonged to someone else.

So we underwrote the first cohort ourselves. We thought it was the right thing. We still do. Take the build. The site is yours, the customers are yours, the payouts are yours. If you never give us another dollar, that’s a good day for us anyway.

— Skylar & Shelby

Four surfaces · one account

Sell everywhere a buyer might find you.

Your own online store

Your domain, your checkout, your customer list. Open at 3am, open during a popup, open while you sleep.

The Painted Porch Marketplace

A national shopping destination we drive ads to. Your listing goes live the moment you accept the build.

paintedporch.market

In-person popups

We run seasonal markets so you still get the eye-contact weekends. Coppell, TX kicks off Mother’s Day.

Porch Pickup Network

Local buyers in your radius pick up from your porch — or a nearby Porch Pro’s. No driving across the metro to deliver one candle.

The free kit

The minute you list. Yours to keep.

Whether you ever pay us a dollar or not. The Project listing is free forever. The resources are free forever. The community is free forever. It’s the leverage we’d hand a friend.

A listing in the national Painted Porch Directory
A free marketplace listing at paintedporch.market
The Online Selling Masterclass. 45 modules, ~19 hours
A private community of 10,000+ displaced makers
Bankruptcy brief, in plain English, written for you
Inventory recovery playbook (UCC §9-102 walkthrough)
Proof of Claim guide, Form 410 line-by-line
The Painted Tree case timeline, updated weekly
Magic-link sign-in. No passwords to remember
Refugee badge on your public profile, if you want it
Live location-status board across all 60+ closed sites
Email + community alerts when anything in the case moves
A "Service City" calculator for your delivery radius
A founder’s letter, written for you, by us

We build it. Then you decide.

Three things we’ll never ask you for.

No credit card

Not at signup, not at delivery, not when the build goes live. The card field doesn’t exist yet.

No contract

You’re not on a plan. There’s nothing to cancel. Stay free, leave free, take the site with you.

No commission on Free

On the marketplace, 10% covers hosting and ad spend. On your own store, on Free, 0%. On paid tiers, 0% everywhere.

The next move is yours

Take the build. Then decide.

Tour the site we delivered. Make your first sale. Then, and only then, decide whether you want the platform that runs the rest of it. We didn’t build the offer to upsell you. We built it to prove the next version of your business already exists.

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The Painted Porch Project is operated by DotWin LLC. Not affiliated with Painted Tree Boutiques or its bankruptcy estate. Free Forever means free forever — even if you never upgrade.