Apply for developer access
Tell us what you want to build. We review every application individually. Approved developers can list paid Drives on the Garage and earn 70% of every dollar via Stripe Connect.
Four steps from idea to paid Drive
Submit the form below. We approve developers individually — keeping the bar high keeps the Garage trustworthy for operators.
Seven endpoints, one HMAC scheme, one shared secret. The full spec lives at /resources/drive-spec — Quillsly is the reference implementation.
Pick a pricing tier from the off-the-shelf menu, paste your /api/meridian/drive/manifest URL, hit submit. We review every listing.
Operators install. Merkava bills them. You receive 70% of every dollar via Stripe Connect, paid monthly. No invoicing, no chasing.
Pick from six monthly tiers
No haggling, no per-listing price negotiation. Pick a tier when you submit; change it later if you outgrow it. Custom enterprise pricing is available by exception — talk to us.
Try-it-free Drives, FOSS authors, free tier of a paid product.
Single-purpose utilities. One thing, done well.
Light specialist Drives.
Tier-1 specialists. Quillsly-class.
Tier-2 with depth — substantial integrations or vertical fit.
Heavy / network-effect Drives.
Pay to be seen
Optional promotion to surface your Drive above organic sort. Two tiers; both monthly subscriptions billed to your card. No cut on these — they're 100% Merkava revenue.
Pinned at the top of your category page. "Featured" badge on every card render.
Pinned at the top of the entire Garage default sort. Garage spotlight slot. The "I want every operator to see this" tier.
Everything you need to ship
- Drive Author Spec → — the full guide for building a Drive (Platform Contract v1, manifest, install handshake, events).
- Platform Contract spec → — the HMAC-signed protocol every Drive speaks.
- Drive manifest reference → — the JSON shape your Drive's
/api/meridian/drive/manifestendpoint returns. - Quillsly — reference implementation → — the most complete worked example. Study it first.
Common questions
Approved developers only. Apply below; we review every application individually. The bar is real but not impossible — show us a thoughtful idea and a track record (GitHub helps).
No. Merkava is the merchant of record for every Drive in the Garage. One billing surface for the operator, one payout flow for you. We send you 70% via Stripe Connect monthly.
Off the shelf is the menu of six tiers. Anything bespoke is "talk to us" — we'll work with you, but the default expectation is that you pick a tier.
Each operator subscription generates a Stripe invoice on their renewal date. The webhook fires immediately and we transfer your 70% to your Connect account. Stripe's payout schedule then handles the rest (typically 2–7 days to your bank).
Yes. Pick the Free tier on submission. No revenue share applies. Featured listings still cost what they cost.
You'll get a note explaining why. Most rejections are about manifest correctness or scope overlap with an existing Drive. Fix and resubmit; we don't penalize iteration.