Joe Lee · Builder, Founder, Modern Creator

Creators are the loneliest people on the internet. Everybody films alone, edits alone, launches alone. So I built the room. createwithfriends.com puts a real person on the other side of your screen while you work: a room full of your people, one friend for a focus session, or a stranger who's also up at midnight shipping.

Free to walk in. Pay only to host. Your intention sits above your face for the whole session, and so does theirs.

Stop working alone →

createwithfriends.com

Create With Friends: you, and one other person who's also trying to get it done

Rooms

Host Your People

Focus

1:1 Sessions, Camera On

Meet

Get Paired With a Stranger

Free

To Walk In

The Library

Modern
Creator.

My editorial video library at moderncreator.app. Every morning I hand-pick one creator video and publish a full written breakdown beside it: the frameworks, the hooks, the money moves. You get the lesson without rewatching for an hour. Press play, read along. Free, every day by 8 AM ET.

Not the Network, the app. moderncreator.app is the free, public video-breakdown library. Modern Creator Network is the membership platform. Create With Friends is the room. Three doors, same house.

Read today's breakdown, free →

moderncreator.app

Daily

New Breakdown · 8AM ET

2,441

Breakdowns Published

804

Creators Covered

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Always Free to Read

The Platform

Modern Creator
Network.

Every platform hands you a feed. None of them give you the hallway: the part of every conference where the real stuff happens, where you meet the people actually worth knowing. Modern Creator Network brings it online. Live sessions, 1:1 booths, and a free founding membership that's open right now.

The only creator platform where the founder also built the platform. No renting SaaS. We own our stack.

Claim your founding membership →

moderncreatornetwork.com

Modern Creator Network: the hallway is open

Free

Founding Membership

1:1

Live Booths

$6

Self-Hosted Stack

100%

Owner-Built Platform

The Story

Joseph Lee Lavery. Joe Lee for short.

I've Been Building
Since Before AI.

Started in direct response marketing over 20 years ago, when split-testing meant spreadsheets and gut instinct. Co-founded CartFreak in 2008 and pioneered one-click upsells before the platforms knew what they were. Russell Brunson put it in Expert Secrets. Wrote Response Dynamite, the email and conversion book, in 2011. It's free at responsedynamite.com.

I've built membership platforms, email systems, checkout tools, Chrome extensions, desktop apps, AI dictation software, and a full production-grade livestreaming system from scratch. Not because I had to. Because I wanted to understand every layer.

Now I'm building Modern Creator Network and Create With Friends, for people done renting tools and done working alone. Shipping in public, every day.

Navy

US Navy Nuclear Engineer. A system either works or it doesn't. Your opinion about it is worth nothing.

2008

CartFreak. Pioneered one-click upsells before anyone else.

2008+

Expert Secrets. Featured by Russell Brunson as an industry innovator.

2011

Response Dynamite. Wrote the book on email and website conversion. Free at responsedynamite.com.

20yrs

Direct Response Marketing. Funnels, copy, offers, conversion at scale.

2024

Modern Creator Network. Launched. The hallway is open.