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Re: Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

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Hey HN!

We recently launched SellApp and wanted to share it with the HN community.

SellApp is a simple way to sell digital products online. A digital goods seller can spin up a storefront in less than a minute and start selling instantly, while we automatically take care of all the difficult parts — delivery, checkout, payment methods, security, and more.

We built SellApp with a small (remote) team of 3, in a little less than 4 months from start to finish (happy to elaborate more on how)

What makes SellApp different from competitors:

1. Simplicity; Unlike competitors whose interfaces overwhelm first-time seller of digital products, we decided to keep our interface as minimal/simple as possible.

2. Payments; where other storefronts tend to custody funds and pay sellers out after 7-14 days, we enable sellers to receive earnings instantly.

3. Pricing: Alternatives either charge a high monthly recurring subscription to start, or take anywhere between 8% to 25%+ in commission per sale. It's completely free to start selling on SellApp, with no fees being taken (though we'll introduce a 3% fee per sale in a couple months)

Happy to answer any questions and go more in-depth on the technical side of things.

Re: Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

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What is a "digital product"?

Great question! We see a digital product as anything that can be delivered online.

This is generally subdivided into 4 different types:

1. A file which you can download, for example an eBook.

2. A text-based product, such as a game key or license code.

3. An online service, like creating a logo for someone.

4. A dynamic delivery which lets you programmatically perform certain actions once a payment is successfully processed. A good example is automatically upgrading someone's account on your forum (or Discord channel)

Re: Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

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What is a "digital product"?

Great question! We see a digital product as anything that can be delivered online. This is generally subdivided into 4 different types: 1. A file which you can download, for example an eBook. 2. A text-based product, such as a game key or license code. 3. An online service, like creating a logo for someone. 4. A dynamic delivery which lets you programmatically perform certain actions once a payment is successfully pr…

what about subscriptions? say providing a service or website access to a user every month?

Re: Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

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Do you have an example storefront we could look at? I think that would be a great link from the homepage to help people understand what this thing is.

On the biz front, it seems like you guys are taking on gumroad? How are you thinking about getting users? I'm not super familiar with how gumroad does distribution.

Re: Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods

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Great question! We see a digital product as anything that can be delivered online. This is generally subdivided into 4 different types: 1. A file which you can download, for example an eBook. 2. A text-based product, such as a game key or license code. 3. An online service, like creating a logo for someone. 4. A dynamic delivery which lets you programmatically perform certain actions once a payment is successfully pr…

what about subscriptions? say providing a service or website access to a user every month?

Subscriptions are indeed planned.

Our roadmap currently looks something like this: API -> subscriptions -> product embeds -> basket system (so a customer can purchase multiple digital items from the same store)

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