Goldenboy · Reading · 03
Object, template, kit, commission
All four answer “how do I get an interactive page” and none of them are the same purchase. The difference is how finished the thing is when it reaches you, and how much of the rest is yours.
01Four things that get confused
A component library, a template kit, a commission and an object all answer the question “how do I get an interactive page”, and they answer it in completely different places. The difference that matters is how finished the thing is when it reaches you, and how much of the remaining work is yours.
02A component library
- What arrives: parts. Buttons, controls, a renderer wrapper, primitives to compose.
- What is left to you: the design, the composition, the motion, and the page itself.
- Dependency surface: a package, its peers, and every future upgrade of both.
- Best when: you are building an application and expect to keep building it.
03A template kit
- What arrives: a project — source files, a config, a package manifest, and a build to run before you can see it.
- What is left to you: installing the toolchain, resolving version drift, replacing placeholder content, and keeping the build working.
- Dependency surface: everything the manifest pins, plus whatever those pin.
- Uniqueness: usually unlimited licences, so the ceiling on how many other sites look like yours is the seller's sales volume.
- Best when: you want a starting point and you are comfortable maintaining a project.
04A commission
- What arrives: exactly what you asked for, eventually.
- What is left to you: the brief, the review cycles, the schedule, and the budget — the work is priced in someone's weeks, not in a file.
- Dependency surface: whatever they chose to build with, which becomes yours to maintain.
- Uniqueness: total. This is the one thing a commission genuinely buys that nothing else does.
- Best when: the page must be specifically about you, and the timeline and budget exist.
05An object
- What arrives: the finished page, as one self-contained HTML file. Not parts, not a project — the artifact.
- What is left to you: your words, your branding, and an upload.
- Dependency surface: none. Nothing to install, nothing to update, nothing fetched at runtime.
- Uniqueness: capped at 25 buyers, then retired permanently and never sold again.
- Best when: you want a designed, interactive page now, and you are not trying to build a platform out of it.
06Side by side
- Component library
- Parts · you design and build the page · package deps
- Template kit
- Project · install, build, replace placeholders · pinned deps
- Commission
- Bespoke page · brief and review cycles · their stack becomes yours
- Goldenboy object
- Finished page as one file · add words, upload · no deps
- Copies of a template kit
- Typically unlimited
- Copies of an object
- 25, then retired permanently
- Object 01 · price
- $99 for the first five, then $199
- Object 02 · price
- $79 for the first five, then $149
07What you are allowed to do with an object
Unlimited personal and commercial projects, for yourself or a client. Modify anything — geometry, materials, colours, labels, motion, copy, layout. Publish the result on as many sites as you like, including sites that sell things. No attribution is owed, and you may remove every reference to its origin.
The single restriction is that the file itself may not be sold on as an asset, template, component or kit. Build whatever you want with it; just do not resell the object as the product. The full text is published at terms.txt, including the 30-day refund and the note that corrections to an object reach existing owners at no cost.
How the 25-copy cap is enforced — and by whom — is on the editions page. What the file technically is, and how to verify it, is on the single-file page.
FAQQuestions
- Can I use an object for a client project?
- Yes. Unlimited personal and commercial projects, for yourself or for clients, with no attribution owed and no limit on how many sites you publish the result on.
- Can I resell it?
- No. The one restriction is that the file itself may not be resold, redistributed or given away as a template, asset, component or kit, modified or not. What you sell must be your own work built with it.
- Is it exclusive to me?
- No — it is limited rather than exclusive. At most 25 people ever buy a given object, and after the twenty-fifth sale it is retired permanently and never sold again.
- What if it does not work for me?
- The published terms carry a 30-day refund with no explanation required, and you keep the file. Corrections and improvements to an object reach existing owners at no further cost.