Creator-first commerce
Islander Connect is a creator-first marketplace for storefronts, creations, and community support.
Creator-first commerce
Islander Connect is a creator-first marketplace for storefronts, creations, and community support.
A Pacific marketplace built by Pacific people. Direct payouts. Refaluwasch dictionary, business directory, duty calculator — all free, all live. Stop selling on platforms that never built a thing for us.
Marianas-rooted creators: free 12 months · no subscription · no listing fees · keep your customers.
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Every $29 you pay Shopify, every 6.5% you give Etsy — none of it funds anything for our islands. The infrastructure had to come from somewhere. We built it ourselves.
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10,363-word Refaluwasch dictionary. Marianas business directory. Duty calculator citing every excise to 4 CMC § 1402. All free, all live, before we asked anyone to sell here.
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Storefronts. Direct payouts. Real listings. No permission, no waiting. Just sell and get paid.
What's live
Custom slug, brand bio, Stripe Connect. Public-facing and ready to sell.
Physical, digital, services. Inventory tracking, draft → publish, image uploads.
Lifecycle from purchase to fulfilled. Tracking numbers, buyer contact, status updates.
Chamolinian by design. Translates Refaluwasch (10,363 words), names local businesses from the directory, answers shopper questions in real time.
Meet Isla
Ask me about a local business on Saipan. What it costs to ship something to Guam. Where to find that one thing nobody else carries. I'll go look. I'm built on the Refaluwasch star compass — the same one our navigators have used for centuries to find what matters.
Tap the compass. She's listening.
I have laid the stick that connects people together.Now it is up to you,your generation and the generations to come,to build upon that stick a bridgethat will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoplesuntil the day we become united again as a single people,as we were once before;before men separated us with their imaginary political boundariesof today's Polynesia and Micronesia.
Mau Piailug
Master Navigator · Satawal
Stop sending money where it doesn't come back.
Every dollar a Pacific creator earns through Etsy or Shopify funds someone else's roadmap.
On Islander Connect it stays in Pacific economies. Not a metaphor — the ledger.
Either you sell here or you don't. Either you shop here or you don't.
Open it. Look. Decide.
Direct payouts. Built by the people on it.