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Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by donjoe »

a2128 wrote: post #79
huhtenberg wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PayPal allows paying with a credit card without needing to create an account. If the OP doesn't have this, there's literally a checkbox for this in the merchant's settings on the PayPal's admin panel. The drawback however is an elevated risk of fraud. Edit: ... and they don't have this enabled - https://fruits.de/c/v9kgq

Content creator payouts are also paid through PayPal, so unless there's another feature I'm not aware of, it seems PayPal will get the opportunity to freeze the money either way.

... bank transfers is one of the feature requests already in our pipeline!

Due to limited time (fruits was built within a few days), we reduced the product to the most simple MVP we could come up with. We will now be adding features on a daily basis :-)

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by grey_earthling »

huhtenberg wrote: post #84
a2128 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Content creator payouts are also paid through PayPal, so unless there's another feature I'm not aware of, it seems PayPal will get the opportunity to freeze the money either way.

And that's just a random boogeyman.

In a capitalist economy, your ability to boycott a company is your only defence against that company.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by rchaud »

mlatu wrote: post #68
emteycz wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread (and it being upvoted to the top) is a prime example of why there isn't any Big Tech in EU - because we slam down even fun little startups with this legalese bullshit as soon as they appear.

all i can hear is "if only the whole world was as unregulated as the US"-mimimi

The US is plenty regulated. It's why VCs have to spend absurd sums on lawyers for Uber and Airbnb. Sidestepping laws and regulations isn't cheap.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by donjoe »

andybak wrote: post #77

It sends you a code that expires and there's no way to request another. In general - please let codes last at least an hour or so. I always get distracted waiting for the code and have to request another one - often several times. Unless you can guarantee instant code delivery (which you probably can't) then I am going to go off and do something else and I probably will forget to check for a while.

Point taken. Thanks - will look into it!

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#96

Post by 101008 »

mstolpm wrote: post #42

Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service: You don't have a legally valid "Impressum" on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn't even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you're at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a pot…

I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax/money/stuff.

I am not from Europe neither USA - I'd like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I'd be grateful.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#97

Post by pchangr »

mstolpm wrote: post #42

Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service: You don't have a legally valid "Impressum" on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn't even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you're at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a pot…

This kind of bureaucracy is why our business is registered out of Germany, haha.

Edit: I’m not vouching for anyone not following the law. But I do think the rules are much easier to understand and follow in other EU countries.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by chayesfss »

zrobotics wrote: post #81
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably the same as any other online service; wait for DMCA takedown requests, prepare for lawsuits and be prepared to pay copyright holders or hand over gains to law enforcement. Of course, that could be prevented if they manually check and verify ownership of every submission.

What about illegal content like CSAM? That would be far more serious than just a DMCA, personally content like that would be my first concern running this type of business.

Yea hope they have good monitoring in place

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

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Post by Dand313 »

101008 wrote: post #96
mstolpm wrote: post #42

Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service: You don't have a legally valid "Impressum" on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn't even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you're at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a pot…

I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax/money/stuff. I am not from Europe neither USA - I'd like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I'd be grateful.

take a look at getrevin.com - basically an MoR (taxes,filing etc) but you can use Stripe - and they can serve you in countries that Stripe can't.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#100

Post by pchangr »

101008 wrote: post #96
mstolpm wrote: post #42

Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service: You don't have a legally valid "Impressum" on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn't even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you're at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a pot…

I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax/money/stuff. I am not from Europe neither USA - I'd like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I'd be grateful.

It really boils down to the country.IMHO, German tax system is madly complicated but Estonian is super simple, for example.
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