Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

Post by amitmerchant » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

janosdebugs wrote: post #79

jhartist wrote: post #77

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Two answers: • The operating costs are very low, since all Easyful does is email your customers your content when they buy it. • Our team at nicer.io is primarily a product agency, so when we make our own apps like Easyful, SimplePerks and Smallchat, they don't have the pressure to be highly-profitable. We often end up getting good connections, agency customers and referrals from these apps, and keeping them running…

How do you mail files that are several hundred megabytes in size? Also, you need to store these somewhere, which costs money. I might be wrong, but it seems you missed a few critical parts of why people use Gumroad. You should take a closer look at their audience, there is a sizable segment of people that sell 3D models, textures, etc.

Post by XCSme » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 5:46 PM UTC

rmbyrro wrote: post #66

a2128 wrote: post #24

This looks cool, but I'm curious about how taxes work with this setup. From my understanding, Gumroad handles sales tax for you in a number of countries (US and EU at least). Does Easyful do something similar, or is that left up to the user to go through that headache on their own?

If you're an individual digital creator in, say, South Africa, why would you worry about paying taxes in Norway for $500 that came from customers there? I mean, big, established companies are a big target. But it doesn't seem that the Norway Revenue Service would spend time finding who's Joe from South Africa who sold a $50 ebook to 10 Norwegians...