Samurai BLAQUE | Beat Store on Owned Rails

Most producers rent their storefront. A marketplace takes a cut of every sale, decides how the catalog looks, and keeps the customer relationship. I built the alternative.

samuraiblaque.com/beats is a live beat store running on infrastructure I control. Nine SKUs are purchasable right now: three packs and six singles, priced $24.99 to $49.99. Untagged WAV plus MP3, instant delivery, producer tags removed.

What is actually wired:

A catalog endpoint, not a hardcoded page. Buttons render "Buy now" only when the API reports that item as purchasable, so a product can be pulled without editing the storefront.

Stripe Checkout created server-side. Price IDs live in environment variables, never in the page. No card data touches my infrastructure.

Webhook fulfilment. The purchase completes, the buyer gets the files, and the lease terms are stated on the product before checkout rather than after.

Previews served from object storage, one per beat, so a buyer can hear the whole catalog without a third-party player in the middle.

An artist sign-in surface at the label root, alongside the beat store and the artist hub.

Discovery stays where discovery works. The catalog is also shelved on a marketplace as a finder, but the sale and the customer both come home. No monthly platform fee and no per-sale cut beyond card processing.

The design is the label's, not a template's: black, condensed type, one red accent, track lists that play inline.

Owned-brand infrastructure by Supreme at GiveMePrompts. Samurai BLAQUE is my own music label, and this is the storefront system I built and operate for it.