For creators
Every Japan travel video you've made already has a map.
Claim 40p.to/@you. Plug in your affiliate codes. Keep 100% on direct adds — a deal that doesn't exist anywhere else in travel.
The deal
Three reasons to claim now.
You don't have to make anything new. We process your existing Japan travel videos into walkable 3–5 hour ingredients with your voice as the guide — then send your audience to a storefront that earns for you on every direct add.
Keep 100% on direct adds.
Plug in your affiliate codes — for flights, hotels, Klook tours, restaurant reservations. When a user adds an ingredient from your storefront and books, you get the full commission. We take zero. No other platform in travel offers this.
0% platform cutYour codes
Every recommendation cites you.
When Forty Pirates answers a question, we cite the exact YouTube timestamp where you said it. Users watch the clip. Your view count grows. Your subs grow. Your channel becomes the canonical source — not a model guessing what you might have said.
Timestamped citationsYouTube traffic
Your bio link, finally productive.
40p.to/@you replaces your Linktree. Shorter URL. Cross-platform (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X). Verbal mentions work in end-cards. And unlike Linktree, it monetizes — your bio link earns whether you're online or asleep.
Replaces LinktreeEarns 24/7
Your storefront
Branded as you. Monetized from day one.
Your handle is your URL. Your videos become a catalog of ingredients. Your audience plans trips from your picks — and every booking that flows through your storefront earns you commission you weren't capturing before.
The first creators on the platform are claiming names now. Squatting prevention works like Twitter — verified handle, reserved by YouTube channel ownership.
40p.to/@you
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Japan, Slowly
@japanslowly · 47 videos processed
142
Ingredients
8.4k
Trips planned
¥1.2M
Earned · 30d
Kyoto temples
Shibuya neon
Omoide Yokocho
Mt Fuji viewpoints
Golden Gai bars
+ 137 more
How the split works
GitHub for travel — file-level provenance.
Every ingredient retains the original creator's attribution unless a user modifies or replaces it. Unmodified picks still credit you, even inside someone else's forked trip. Modified or new ingredients become the platform's. Clean, predictable, never ambiguous.
Scenario
Split
How it works
User adds your ingredient directly
From your storefront, with your affiliate codes attached
100% creator
Your codes carry the booking. We take nothing. Most platforms take 15-30%; we take 0.
User forks your trip but keeps the ingredient
They customize other parts; yours stays untouched
100% creator
Provenance is per-ingredient, not per-trip. Unmodified picks credit the original creator forever.
User modifies or replaces your ingredient
They swap your hotel pick for a different one, etc.
100% Forty Pirates
Once modified, the ingredient is a fork. We capture the derivative-work commission — never from your share.
User publishes their fork as a new trip
Original picks still credit you; their additions credit them
Per-ingredient
Their fork becomes a new public artifact. Each ingredient still routes commission to whoever originated it.
Trained on the best
100+
Japan-travel creators · one corpus
Join the creators whose videos already power the engine. Each one has claimed their 40p.to/@handle and is earning on direct adds. Their picks are the wisdom users plan around.
Plus 12,400+ travelers publishing their own forks. The line between creator and user is one click — and one storefront.
"We don't take a cut on direct adds. Creators are why this works. We grow when your derivative ecosystem grows."
— The rule the engine runs on
Japan, Slowly
@japanslowly
Slow travel
Tokyo Ramen
@tokyoramen
Ramen hunter
Kento TV
@kentoTV
Neon nights
Ghibli IRL
@ghibliIRL
Film locations
Osaka Eats
@osakaeats
Street food
Japan Insider
@japaninsider
Pre-trip wisdom
Temple Walker
@templewalker
Sunrise temples
Kyoto Foodie
@kyotofoodie
Slow Kyoto
Shinkai Trips
@shinkaitrips
Anime locations
Paolo From Tokyo
@paolofromtokyo
Local insider
Nightwalker
@nightwalker.tk
After dark
Yen Diary
@yen.diary
Budget Japan
Claim your handle before someone else does.
Verified by YouTube channel ownership. Your storefront goes live when your videos finish processing — usually under 24 hours.
No fee · No platform cut on direct adds · Cancel any time
A note from the founder
We don't take a cut on direct adds
because creators are why this works.
Most travel platforms grow at the expense of the creators they depend on. Affiliate sites scrape your content. AI apps paraphrase you and remove your name. Booking aggregators monetize your audience without sending them back.
Forty Pirates does the opposite. Every recommendation cites you. Every booking from a direct add pays you in full. Your audience finds you here — and stays your audience.
We grow when your derivative ecosystem grows. That's the deal.