super interesting. I recently started using stable diffusion images for my blog posts on https://blog.boot.dev . I got really sick of all the same unsplash and pexels images.
I love moving domains every so often because changing up tooling and languages is such a great learning experience. Here's a related piece I wrote talking about why I think learners should also be learning multiple programming languages: https://blog.boot.dev/education/learn-multiple-programming-l...
Connect is Stripes product that allows you to build marketplaces. I believe this would be how you would pay out your users. e.g. if PayPal used stripe to back their app.