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Seriously? I'm not sure I could take anyone seriously that tried to sell me a link of "value." Why not just share the link for free like people have been doing since the beginning of time? Don't get me wrong. You did a great job getting this rolled out over a weekend and it looks nice. I must need some enlightening because I really don't get it.
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Honestly, I'm not sure - hence them not being listed - but I think I'm going to go with 30%. And then for people making >$x a month dropping that in tiers. Thoughts?
Thought about it. How does this sound? "i think 30% below $10/month in sales, then 25% below $50, 20% below $100, 15% below $1000, 10% above $1000"
Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in. There have been many times in the past where I wanted to share a link - on Twitter or just through IM with a few friends - but did not want to go through the overhead of setting up a whole store. So I built Gumroad. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons o…
Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in. There have been many times in the past where I wanted to share a link - on Twitter or just through IM with a few friends - but did not want to go through the overhead of setting up a whole store. So I built Gumroad. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons o…
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The service could send a special "auth" key along as parameter when forwarding. E.g.: http://example.com/secret.php?key=dh498 In secret.php on your server you could then ask the Gumroad API (via another http request) how often this key was already used and deny or allow access. This would be super easy to implement for the seller - just paste in ~5 lines of PHP code.
You could allow access to that link about 5 times. After that, display a link that says something along the lines of "Thanks for using us. This link has been used 5 times already. If you wish to access it again, click here and we will send you an email with another authorization code (or whatever)". That way your users don't lose access to their stuff, and you can keep track of abuse. It's not a perfect solution, but…
If Gumroad would be caching a file, this could be done using credit card security code re-entry every 5 attempts to DL or such.
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Imagine you have a Fireworks iPhone mockup template. Instead of setting up a store somewhere to list your ONE item, you put the template up on your website and link to it through gumroad. Then, you give out the Gumroad link on Twitter: "Need a sweet Fireworks iPhone UI template? Buy it for a buck: gumroad.url" Your twatting friends click it, give you a dollar, get redirected to your website. They download the templat…
And 2 minutes later the "secret" link is shared on Twitter.
" onclick="alert('do evil here')" onfocus="alert('do evil here')" foo="
It errors out, and my javascript is now in the input box. They click the name and then it runs my javascript.
It's great you've escaped , but you need to do more.
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Paypal already takes $0.30 plus a small percentage. I think the service is a neat idea, but microtransactions are not a solved problem.
PayPal has a lower tier for sales under $12: https://merchant.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render... Still, you need to take fees into consideration. Also, the seller has to pay another PayPal fee when transferring the money every month.