What is the best alternative to Sellix ? (since its shutdown by the FBI 🚓)?

Hello everyone,

I’m starting this discussion to ask you what the best alternative to Sellix is, now that the platform has been shut down by the FBI.

I never found anything as good as Sellix. I loved that platform, it was really great. Everything was well thought out, even the design, and everything was super easy to use. Now, I can’t find a viable alternative for my digital products.

Can you help me, please? Thank you!

i need something semilar to sellix so it should be lifetime deal

Litterly the same thing https://selly.io/ sellix copied this site

But this site, it’s not a lifetime deal. I mean, it’s extremely expensive: I have to pay every month, etc. Plus, all the features I want to get are in the highest plan, which costs dozens of dollars per month.

I want something lifetime. I mean, I pay once, and then I use it as if it’s for life like sellix,i payed it $50. I could do everything I wanted: I could create multiple stores and I had access to all the features.

Then honestly , you’re better off self hosting something

https://payhip.com/blog/selly-alternatives/

Sell.app

a lot of free here What are the best websites where we can set up an online store/shop for free that sells only digital products? - #7 by Emanuel_Branson

Real talk first: Sellix didn’t just “go down” — the FBI seized it in Operation Talent (Jan 2025, same sweep as Cracked & Nulled), and on their new site they admit the platform’s future is “likely irreparably compromised.” It’s not coming back.

So here’s the thing nobody in this thread actually said out loud :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Selly, Sell.app, Sellup — they’re all the exact same thing that just bit you: a rented storefront on someone else’s server, billed monthly, that any agency can switch off overnight. Chasing “the next Sellix” is re-buying the same trap. The move that gives you a real lifetime deal — pay once, unlimited stores, every feature, and nobody can seize it — is to own the stack yourself. Rent a $4/month box (or a free tier), drop an open-source Sellix-clone on it, done. That’s the “pay $50 once and it’s yours forever” feeling you’re chasing — except now it’s genuinely yours.

The thread said “self-host something” and named nothing. Here’s the something :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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:star: The gem outside China — 发卡 (“faka”) auto-vending shops

There’s an entire mature ecosystem of free, self-hosted Sellix-equivalents from the Chinese scene. They’re built for exactly your job — sell digital goods, auto-deliver keys/accounts/files the second crypto lands — and they never show up in English “Sellix alternative” lists.

:1st_place_medal: dujiaoka (独角数卡) — the flagship, 12k★. Multi-product, key-pool auto-delivery, USDT + Alipay/WeChat, clean UI, one-command Docker. This is self-hosted Sellix.
→ use the maintained fork: https://github.com/hiouttime/dujiaoka
→ one-command deploy: https://github.com/smallfawn/dujiaoka-modify

:department_store: emshop — same idea but with multi-store / sub-sites built in (分站) — your “multiple stores” requirement in one package → https://github.com/ihehe1996/emshop

🧩 More faka engines (Go rewrite, plugin-payments, MIT) — pick your flavor

→ 独角Next — modern Go single-binary rewrite, adds Stripe/PayPal alongside USDT → https://github.com/dujiao-next/dujiao-next
→ acg-faka (异次元) — plugin payment system + sub-stores → https://github.com/lizhipay/acg-faka
→ mcy-shop — MIT, any payment method, virtual + physical, multi-store → https://github.com/lizhipay/mcy-shop
→ kamiFaka (Vue3) → https://github.com/Baiyuetribe/kamiFaka · ZFAKA (USDT) → https://github.com/ZFAKA/ZFAKA

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:globe_showing_europe_africa: Prefer it in English? Real open-source Sellix clones:
├─ :wrench: sellox — literally “like Sellix, but open-source”: auto-deliver serials, NOWPayments crypto + PayPal + bank, Docker → https://github.com/sadidft/sellox
├─ :package: open-payment-host — self-hosted Gumroad (Stripe/PayPal + auto file delivery) → https://github.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host
└─ :gear: Phonix (one-file store) → https://github.com/AbolfazlTafakori/Phonix

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₿ The part that actually matters after a seizure — a checkout THEY can’t touch

Sellix held your crypto. BTCPay Server doesn’t — it’s self-hosted, 0% fees, no KYC, non-custodial (coins hit your wallet directly), and runs forever. Bolt on BTCPayWall and it auto-delivers the file/key after payment — a full store on its own.
→ BTCPay: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver · 5-min one-click: https://launchbtcpay.lunanode.com/
→ auto-delivery add-on: https://github.com/coincharge-io/BTCPayWall

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:robot: Don’t even want a website? Sell straight from a bot (free, you run it)

📲 Telegram + Discord auto-delivery shop bots (crypto, instant hand-off)

Telegram (these speak RU too):
→ Autoseller (crypto + YooMoney) → https://github.com/PavelShaura/Autoseller_bot_aiogram_3
→ TG-MARKET-BOT (CryptoBot auto-deliver) → https://github.com/exfador/TG-MARKET-BOT
→ TelegramGoodsInbot (USDT/TRX/BTC/LTC/ETH, multi-language) → https://github.com/rashidovich2/TelegramGoodsInbot

Discord:
→ ShopBot → https://github.com/DragonJules/ShopBot
→ ShoppyBot (product keys + wallets, no website at all) → https://github.com/ShoppyBot/discord-bot

🔑 Need proper license keys / activation like Sellix issued? Self-host the key server

→ keygen (self-host, full licensing API) → https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api
→ license-gate (issue + validate keys) → https://github.com/DevLeoko/license-gate
→ KeyAuth source (auth + licenses) → https://github.com/KeyAuth/KeyAuth-Source-Code

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:computer_mouse: “But I’m not a coder.” You don’t touch a terminal — these deploy any of the above in a few clicks:
→ Elestio managed BTCPay ($20 free credit) → https://elest.io/open-source/btcpay
→ PikaPods (pick-and-host) → https://www.pikapods.com/apps/ · Coolify (280+ one-click) → https://coolify.io/services

🕸️ Want the truly unseizable endgame? Nostr-native stores

Your listings live on the Nostr network signed by your key — there’s literally no central server to seize. Overkill for most, but it’s the logical end of “nobody can take it down”:
→ Shopstr → https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr · Plebeian Market → https://github.com/PlebeianApp/market

Sellix taught the whole scene one lesson the hard way: if someone else can switch it off, you never owned it. Host it once, hold your own keys, and there’s nothing left to seize.

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