Sleebi FAQ

Sleebi is a content platform that aims to deliver the best experience tailored for ASMR and sleep-related content. Features include:

• no ads disrupting your sleep
• a blue-light filter and screen-dimming (all the way to black), accessible straight from the video player
• playing content with your screen turned off
• a sleep timer that pauses content after a certain amount of time, saving battery life after you've fallen asleep
• a dark theme to rest your eyes

Sleebi is free to use, but if you want to keep the platform running, you can help out a lot by paying as little as $0.49 per month. Revenue is split 90%-10% for the creators, so it's also a great way to support them!
As Sleebi is currently in beta, all premium features are freely available, but by paying now you can lock in at the current pricing for a year, and get access to all future features. And finally, if Sleebi needs to serve ads in the future, your ad-free experience will remain secure with premium.

Ideally Sleebi could run without ads, but depending on the percentage of users paying for premium, ads might be necessary to cover costs and sufficiently compensate the creators.
Importantly ads will never disrupt your sleep, as that is the core problem Sleebi is meant to solve. This means ads will never be shown during or at the end of a piece of content.

Yes! Adding creators is a balancing act due to the associated server-costs, but it is definitely a goal to keep onboarding them as Sleebi grows its userbase to help support them.

Hi! My name is Luuk, but online I've been going by "ObviouslyASMR" since 2016. I started watching ASMR to fall asleep even years before that, so this community is pretty important to me. I've been sad to see YouTube deteriorate the ASMR watching experience more and more, and I just happen to be a programmer, so in 2023, while talking to other creators and viewers about their needs, I started this little side-project to help give ASMR its own safe space.

All I could afford to invest is time, so I've been working on the platform alone, but that is also a big reason why I can afford to be generous towards creators; I don't need much to support myself and I'll never have investors to satisfy. Of course it also means I don't have a buffer to take a loss, so Sleebi can only exist thanks to anyone who helps cover the costs. Be it paying users, or creators who provide content for them, thank you all!

One of Sleebi's main goals is to generously compensate creators, as they create the real value here. Revenue is split between the creators directly proportionate to their monetized views, while the platform takes 10%. Minimum payouts of $100 (to minimize transaction fees for you) should be sent 30 days after each service month. This means, if you've accumulated at least $100, your earnings from January will be paid around the end of February, and so on.
For now, payment methods will be discussed personally with each creator, but eventually payments will likely be handled through either Stripe, PayPal, or bank transfers.

Things are kept as simple as possible for creators on Sleebi. All you need to do, is provide permission to serve your content (or a specific subset you select). Sleebi has built-in tools to automate the process of transferring the content you choose. Exclusive content isn't on the horizon, so all you need to do to be a creator on Sleebi is press a few buttons once and let the platform do the rest :)
Of course it'd be amazing if you also engage with the community, but that's up to you!

In time, yes. Every creator is welcome to submit their channel and join the waitlist, or contact me personally @obviously.luuk on Instagram. It should be mentioned that every added creator (or specifically their content) has associated server-costs, which is why creators who aren't expected to be able to offset their added costs might not be able to join yet.

To submit your channel, you first need to create a user account. You can do this by clicking the "Login" button at the top right of the homepage, and then clicking "Register". You can then add your channel by clicking the "+" button in the channels shelf on your user profile page. The remaining steps are described there.

Yes, but only 10GB of content storage per month is free per creator. If you want to upload more, the storage costs of ~$0.05/GB will be deducted from your monthly earnings. However, thanks to the use of cutting-edge compression algorithms, 10GB can contain up to around 100 long-form videos at SD quality.
This cost seems negligible, but encourages mindfulness about the long-term and large-scale usage of datacenters, and will hopefully help minimize Sleebi's environmental impact.

Unjustified demonetization has plagued ASMR content on YouTube for a long time, and Sleebi will naturally be much more understanding, as it's specifically designed for ASMR. However, overtly sexual content is not allowed, for example content with a focus on:

• nudity
• moaning
• sexually explicit language