Hello, I'm Catkin!

A am a solo frontend developer based in Scotland!

I started working on Ko-fi.tools back in June of 2024 when I found that Ko-fi.com has an undocumented API endpoint that listed users Ko-fi shop products.

At the time I was helping a friend create a new site and I had really wanted to allow them to show off their Ko-fi shop without them needing to manage two ecommerce systems for their new site.

After getting this working, I knew that this would be really valuable for other Ko-fi creators and started making a system that would help others, without the need to code.

Later when showing an early prototype to my friend Keys, they pointed out it was against Ko-fi.com's terms and conditions to perform any kind of web scraping of their data.

Not wanting to stop, I reached out to Ko-fi to ask for permission, and they gracefully said yes to the idea!

Since then I have single handily built Ko-fi.tools to be what it is today!

I am extremely grateful to my friends, family, colleagues and my partner for their help and support in making this service real. And I am so thankful for all the amazing Ko-fi Creators who use the service on their sites.