Pen pals · Discovery platform

LTTR

A pen-pal profile and discovery platform with evidence-aware payment verification, editorial review states, and structured distribution workflows.

  • Platform Design
  • Payments
  • Operations
LTTR live website showing its pen-pal discovery homepage and primary browsing actions.

The challenge

What had to be true.

Pen-pal discovery, payments, editorial review, and external distribution needed to share one trustworthy operating model instead of relying on ambiguous status changes.

What we built

A product system, not a demo.

We connected profiles and discovery to signed payment evidence, explicit review states, reconciliation, and permission-based distribution workflows.

  • Profile and discovery platform
  • Signed payment webhook handling
  • Pending-review state design
  • Reconciliation and operating workflows

The result

Confidence proportional to evidence.

The deployed foundation has an explicit path from payment evidence to review and distribution, while keeping final approval and external participation as separate gates. Later search-growth work was verified locally without being presented as a ranking result.