Pocket Studio Systems — The Launch Kit: Everything You Need to Launch (Hub + Sales Page Templates, Launch Checklist, Promo System, Community Blueprint) — Pay Once, Own It Forever

### Start selling. Everything you need to launch.

You've seen that page. SamCart will give you unlimited pages, products, and checkouts, an AI assistant, course delivery, cart recovery, integrations — **for $79 a month. Forever.** That's **$948 your first year**, $948 your second, and the day you stop paying, your store is gone. You're not a store owner on a rented platform. You're a tenant.

**Pocket Studio Systems — The Launch Kit** is the other road: the same outcome — pages, products, checkout, courses, promos, a community — as a kit you **buy once and own**, built on free tools that take their cut only when you actually sell something.

And this isn't theory. Jacob Ward runs his whole business exactly this way — hub site, Payhip checkout, daily promo rotations, his own gated community — from a smartphone in Oliver Springs, Tennessee. This kit is that system, in a box, with instructions written so a person can follow them from a phone.

### The honest comparison

| | SamCart | The Launch Kit |

|---|---|---|

| Price | $79/month, forever | **One payment** |

| First-year cost | $948 — and counting | The price on this page. Once. |

| What you own after year one | Nothing. Stop paying, store's gone | Every page, template, and playbook — forever |

| Pages & products | "Unlimited" (on their computer) | Unlimited for real — copy the templates as often as you like, host free |

| Checkout | Theirs | Payhip + Stripe — cards, instant delivery |

| AI assistant | Bundled upsell ecosystem | Works with **Dancing**, the BYOK pocket AI — your own key, pennies per chat (sold separately) |

| Courses | Their Courses App | Course delivery via Payhip + the course page pattern in the kit |

| Cart abandonment | Automated emails (their system) | The comeback system: follow-up posts and stories that bring people back — reaches everyone, not just almost-buyers |

| Integrations | Their "Integration Engine" | The wiring guide: hub, store, socials, community linked on purpose — plain words, no engine required |

| If the company raises prices | You pay more or you leave | Nothing happens. It's yours. |

### What's inside

- **`read-me-first.md`** — what you bought, the honest costs of every free tool (named up front, fees included), and the order to do everything in

- **`launch-checklist.md`** — zero to first product live: free accounts, hub page up, product published, checkout tested like a stranger, promos running

- **`hub-template.html`** — your front door: one brand roof, separated niche sections (never one mixed row), product cards with buy buttons, and the community tile — fill in the blanks, deploy free, done

- **`sales-page-template.html`** — the long-form closer: hero, your story, what's inside, the honest rent-math price anchor, straight-talk FAQ, and the buy-button slot for your checkout link

- **`promo-starter-pack.md`** — the daily rotation that keeps products in front of people: caption templates, comeback posts (the people-powered cart recovery), a weekly rhythm, and an AI prompt pack

- **`community-blueprint.md`** — your own gated community on your own site: the door word, the owner welcome post, house rules, and how to feed the room

- **`wiring-guide.md`** — the integration engine without the engine: how every piece points at the next, so one post feeds the whole machine

### Who it's for

- Creators paying (or about to pay) $79/month to rent a selling platform — and doing the math on what five years of rent buys: nothing.

- Phone-first builders with no laptop, no team, and no patience for dashboards built for agencies.

- Anyone with products to sell who'd rather own the machine than feed it monthly.

### Who it's NOT for — read this twice

- If you want **hosted software that runs itself**, this isn't it. This is templates, pages, and playbooks. You bring free accounts; the kit shows you how to wire them. The building is yours — that's exactly why the ownership is.

- If you want someone to promise you **sales or income**, nobody honest can, and this page won't pretend to. The kit teaches you to set up the system Jacob uses. What you sell, and what it earns, is your work.

## How to use it

1. Download the kit and open `kit/read-me-first.md`.

2. Work `kit/launch-checklist.md` top to bottom — it tells you when to open each template and what to replace.

3. Deploy the hub template free, publish product #1 on Payhip, test the checkout like a stranger.

4. Wire it together with `kit/wiring-guide.md`, turn on the eyeballs with `kit/promo-starter-pack.md`, and grow roots with `kit/community-blueprint.md`.

## Good to know

- One payment — no subscription, no renewal, no account to keep alive

- Runs on free tools; their real costs (transaction fees on sales) are named in the kit, up front

- Every step is phone-first — the whole system was built and is run from a smartphone

- Files are yours to keep, copy, and reuse for your own launches

## Honest disclaimer

Pocket Studio Systems — The Launch Kit is a kit of templates, pages, and instructional guides describing a method of setting up a selling system using third-party free tools. It is not software, not a hosted platform, and not affiliated with or endorsed by SamCart; the comparison above reflects SamCart's publicly listed pricing ($79/month plan) at the time of writing. Free tools' features and fees can change and are set by those providers, not by us. This kit does not guarantee income, sales, traffic, or any other result; your outcomes depend on your products, your work, and your market. Product names of third parties are used only to describe the comparison honestly.