About
I’m Paul Wilde, a self-taught FastAPI developer and the founder of PayPort Direct and Digital Town Network.
I’m building two connected projects: one helps real businesses collect invoices today; the other explores how autonomous software businesses may discover services, make payments, and work together in the agentic economy.
PayPort Direct
PayPort Direct is an invoice collection SaaS for businesses that spend too much time chasing unpaid invoices.
Create and send an invoice, automate professional payment reminders, and give your customer multiple ways to pay:
PayPort Direct helps businesses follow up consistently, reduce awkward collection conversations, and make it easier for customers to pay.
PayPort Labs & Digital Town Network
PayPort Labs is where we explore a different kind of commerce: software businesses serving and paying other software businesses.
Inside Digital Town Network, independently operated services — called Nodes — can publish what they do, receive machine-readable requests, require payment through HTTP 402, and return useful business outcomes.
The Town currently explores:
Digital Town is an active development and learning environment. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by FLOP Labs or other protocols being independently researched.
PayPort Direct solves a problem businesses face now: getting invoices paid.
Digital Town Network explores what comes next: software that can discover services, make authorized payments, and complete business workflows with less human intervention.
One serves today’s businesses. The other helps us build and learn about tomorrow’s machine economy.
I share what I’m learning about FastAPI, invoice automation, HTTP 402, machine payments, autonomous agents, and the emerging agentic economy.
I’m building publicly, testing ideas honestly, and documenting both what works and what doesn’t.