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Your craft deserves better than a link in bio.

Inkframe is a platform built specifically for professional tattoo artists. It handles bookings, client intake, deposits, and discovery, so you can spend your time doing what you're actually good at.

Apply for founding access 30 artists · Free for 12 months · Australia-wide
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Maya KobayashiVerified
Fitzroy, Melbourne
Fine line Botanical Geometric Black & grey
340tattoos
4.97rating
6 wkswait
94%healed
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01The problem

You're running a business on an app built to sell advertising.

New clients find you through Instagram. They book you through Instagram DMs. They ghost you through Instagram DMs. You spend hours making content to stay visible in an algorithm that changes without warning. And if your account disappeared tomorrow, so would your livelihood.

This isn't a workflow. It's a workaround. Inkframe is built to give you something that's actually yours: a professional platform for your craft, not a borrowed corner of someone else's.

02What Inkframe does

One platform. Your entire business.

01

Smart booking flow

Clients submit structured requests (style, placement, size, reference images) before you ever see a name. No more back-and-forth asking basics. Every enquiry arrives complete.

02

Deposit collection

Once you've agreed on a time, clients pay their holding deposit through the platform. Secured by Stripe, deducted from the final price. Ghost bookings stop.

03

Searchable portfolio

Every piece you upload is tagged by style, placement, and size, building a searchable index clients can actually browse. Structured discovery that works alongside the channels you already use.

04

Flash drops

List available flash designs with pricing and placement. Clients book directly, instantly. Fill gaps in your schedule without opening your DMs.

05

Waitlist & notifications

When you're fully booked, clients join your waitlist. When a slot opens, they're notified automatically. No spreadsheets, no manual follow-up.

06

Healed-photo verification

Past clients upload verified healed photos of their work. The one quality signal that can't be faked, and the one serious clients care about most.

03See it work

Every enquiry arrives complete.

Clients answer the questions you'd otherwise ask over a week of DMs, before the request ever reaches you. You open a booking already knowing the style, placement, size, and the idea.

  • i.Structured intakeStyle, placement and size captured up front. No guesswork.
  • ii.Deposit before you commitThe holding deposit is taken when the time is agreed, secured by Stripe.
  • iii.One thread, not twelveThe whole conversation lives in one place you control.

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Style
Fine lineBlackworkColourTraditional
Placement
ForearmUpper armRibcageAnkle
Size
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Describe your idea
A small sprig of wattle, Australian native, fine-line style…
Holding depositDeducted from final price
A$100
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🔒 Secured by Stripe · Refundable if declined
04Searchable portfolio

A portfolio clients can actually search.

Every piece is tagged by style, placement and size the moment it's uploaded. A client after fine-line botanical work on a forearm finds exactly that. Try the filters:

Browse Maya's work 8 results
Fine lineForearmS
✓ Healed
BlackworkRibcageL
BotanicalShoulderM
✓ Healed
Fine lineAnkleS
BlackworkForearmM
✓ Healed
BotanicalSpineL
Fine lineWristS
✓ Healed
BlackworkCalfM

Founding artists: drag your own work onto these frames to preview your searchable profile.

05Why this, why now
  • i.

    Instagram is not infrastructure

    It's an advertising platform that tolerates artists as content creators. Every algorithm change, every API restriction, every account suspension is a reminder that your business sits on borrowed ground.

  • ii.

    The tools that exist weren't built for you

    Generic booking platforms treat tattooing like a haircut. Community platforms confuse a professional portfolio with a social network. Nothing was built with a tattoo artist's actual workflow in mind.

  • iii.

    The window to build this right is now

    The Australian tattoo industry is growing. Artists are more professional than ever, and clients more discerning. The market is ready for a platform that takes both seriously.

  • iv.

    We're building with artists, not for them

    Inkframe is being designed in direct conversation with working artists before a single line of production code is written. The founding cohort isn't a beta test. It's the foundation.

06Founding artist offer

We're inviting thirty artists to build this with us.

We're not launching to everyone at once. We're starting with a small, carefully chosen group of artists across Australia: people whose work we respect and whose honest feedback will shape the platform from the ground up.

In return for your time and candour, founding artists get free Pro access for twelve months and a permanent founding-member badge on their profile.

  • The founding offerFree Pro access for 12 monthsFull platform access at no cost. No credit card required, at any point.
  • Permanent founding-member badgeDisplayed on your profile. Always. Not just during the free period.
  • Direct input into the productYour feedback shapes what gets built. We'll ask regularly, and we'll act on it.
  • One ask in returnUse the platform for your bookings and tell us honestly what works and what doesn't.

Apply for founding access

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