DataFlow lets people buy & sell mobile data, internet bandwidth & Wi-Fi access instantly. Turn an unlimited plan into income — or get fast internet exactly when & where you need it most.
Location-based discovery, automatic hotspot, fair per-use billing, settled on the spot.
List spare data from your unlimited plan or buy fast internet from sellers nearby — paying only for what you actually use.
A billion people have unlimited mobile plans they never fully use. A billion more pay extortionate rates for the next gigabyte. DataFlow connects the two sides & settles the transaction in seconds.
DataFlow is infrastructure for the next layer of the internet — a way to monetise excess bandwidth & on-demand access for everyone else.
Three resources tradable on the platform: mobile data (share unlimited plans via secure hotspot), bandwidth (lend unused fibre throughput), and Wi-Fi access (sell guest-network slots at busy locations).
Discovery is location-first — buyers see only sellers within signal range. Pricing is set per seller, denominated per MB, with a small platform fee. Settlement is automatic at session close.
The marketplace is the easy half. The hard half is making the connection invisible — auto-provisioning hotspots, brokering captive-portal handshakes & metering accurately enough that buyers trust the bill.
Sellers list a plan & earn passively while their phone sleeps. Buyers tap a pin on a map & connect to fast internet in seconds. Same app, two truly different surfaces.
List how much data & bandwidth you'll share, set your per-MB price. The app auto-creates a secure hotspot whenever a buyer connects. Earn automatically based on actual usage.
See available sellers on a map near you. Pay only for what you use with automatic session management. Perfect for airports, cafés, dead-zones & high-demand events.
Buyers, sellers & the platform itself each get their own dashboard — all powered by the same realtime session engine.
Every seller's hotspot is generated per-session with rotating WPA3 credentials & isolated from the seller's own traffic. Buyers can't see anything but the open internet.
Sessions close cleanly: usage is metered to the byte, the platform takes a small fee, and the rest hits the seller's Stripe Connect balance within minutes — no monthly batch run.
Each feature earned its place by closing a gap real users hit in early testing — discovery, trust, billing, security & safety.
PostGIS-backed seller search by location, speed & price band.
Hotspot provisioned with rotating creds on every connect.
Bytes tracked per session, displayed to both sides realtime.
Buyer-set cap kills the session before bills get scary.
Stripe Connect splits revenue at session close, no batch.
Two-sided rating after every session; ⩾4.6 to keep listing.
Pay 1.5× for prioritised allocation in dense seller areas.
Sellers with home fibre can list a guest SSID just as easily.
ID-verified sellers, abuse flagging, encrypted handshake logs.
Sellers carry a dark dashboard showing live earnings & active sessions. Buyers carry a light, map-first finder & payment app. Same backend, two different mental models.
Set how much data & bandwidth you'll share, set a per-MB price & a daily cap. Your phone listens for buyers in the background.
A buyer nearby opens the map, sees your pin with price & rating, taps to request a connection — all from a phone in a café.
The seller's hotspot is provisioned with fresh WPA3 credentials & an isolated VLAN. The buyer joins in under 30 seconds.
Bytes are counted on-device & on-platform; both sides see live spend & speed. Buyer's auto-stop kills the session at their cap.
At session close, Stripe Connect splits the amount: small platform fee, the rest to the seller's balance. Both sides get a receipt.
Two-sided rating after every session. Strong sellers get prioritised in the map; consistent buyers unlock Boost-mode pricing.
Most of us pay for internet we never use. Most of us, at some point, desperately need internet we can't get. DataFlow is just routing one to the other.Pasan W. · Founder & sole builder
A working two-sided prototype with end-to-end metering, settlement & auto-hotspot — built solo over weekends.