Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad

Post by robgough » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 8:59 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #59

JoshTriplett wrote: post #36

Interesting idea, but I see two main issues with this. First, anyone who pays and gets to the resulting link can trivially share that link; of course, you can always ask them nicely not to do so, and in some contexts that will work, but in general the security model just doesn't work unless you authenticate each paid user at the destination. You need to come up with an answer to this. Second, if you market this as a…

Another interesting variant might be: payment unlocks the destination link for X minutes. (After that, the true destination URL is changed somehow. Yes, that adds complication on the true hosting site or the necessity for Gumroad to proxy.) So in a sense you don't care if people share the link for that period... maybe you even want them to, like a time-limited offer, so that they post to all their friends, "get it wh…

Post by ElbertF » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

bhousel wrote: post #213

ElbertF wrote: post #208

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Missed opportunity here, if you had set it $1 I'm sure some of us would have paid just for the hell of it. I know I would. :)

Oh really? Well then you'll be pleased to know that I just released Gumroad Lite: Clickable: http://gumroad.com/l/nbmeyt