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Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by sangnoir »

ntsplnkv2 wrote: post #130
sangnoir wrote: post #120

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Meetings are a result of having a large team (or many teams) which require work/information to be synced periodically. I have not seen a software product that can tackle this problem: I only want to see progress on team Y for delivery 1 that my team needs for delivery Gamma. Also, strong, small teams usually don't scale well - which is why they sell themselves to megacorps who can (e.g. megacorps are much better when…

All of those things are true of established industries with mature products. But that's also why established industries with mature products don't innovate and die. There's too much bureaucracy to innovate. A potentially great idea could be snuffed out because it threatens the internal ambition of a middle manager, or the silos required to overcome results in burnout and good devs leaving. Even if a good idea is appr…

> They sell to megacorps to make money, not to scale their product

I should have been more explicit. Scale is the arbitrage opportunity exploited by megacorps: Buying an upstart at $X means they project that they can make a multiple of $X out of the transaction, based on their ability to scale (or integration with other products). If smaller team could easily make the same multiple of $X, then they wouldn't sell at $X.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by pouta »

switz wrote: post #47

My company is ran similarly; though I never raised VC and bootstrapped my way to profitability over 5 years as a solo founder. I provide a simple platform for people to play their friends on high quality CS:GO servers, while keeping track of their stats/wins/losses. https://popflash.site If you have played a lot of Counterstrike, have real-world technical skills, and are interested in a flexible autonomous environmen…

Pop flash was a godsend on the early days of the pandemic. Best money I ever spent. Keep up the amazing work

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by shostack »

canarysplit wrote: post #126
kvz wrote: post #82

I read the post as a Transloadit.com founder and found it to 90% overlap. We do have a team meetup once a year and Friday remote gaming sessions, and one fulltimer tho (out of 18)

Hello kvz, I've just launched a site which has a goal to collect different companies that support Gumroad's model - https://creatorjobs.co/ Is it possible that I list your company there? If yes, please contact me with additional information - contact@creatorjobs.co.

I'm not sure you should be spamming this in response to all these comments.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by Viliam1234 »

hinkley wrote: post #97
offtop5 wrote: post #58

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Move to a country where I can live off the 40k -> 60k a year an interest or whatnot. This basically means either Southeast Asia, or some parts of Latin America. Asian languages tend to be extremely hard, and it might be a lot easier to sort of blend in with the populace in Latin America. The last thing I want to do in my retirement is draw needless attention to myself.

Most people who get rich get that way by saving money. That means living on less money than you can make. Indefinitely. If you want to get sucked into every ad campaign that comes along, you'll end up broke even if you get a huge windfall. Which is in fact exactly what happens to many lottery winners, sports stars, musicians, child actors...

> Which is in fact exactly what happens to many lottery winners, sports stars, musicians, child actors...

I suspect the problem of sport stars et cetera is that they have to focus most of their time on their career, thus most don't have time to learn about finance (and not being from rich families means they can't simply copy the strategy of their parents), but it is publicly known that they are rich, and there are scammers who specialize on exactly this kind of victim. That is, I suspect that many sport stars will at some moment of their life meet a "financial advisor" with references from fellow sport stars, who offers to take care of their finance, and they go "lucky me, now I can focus 100% on my training", only to find out later that the money is gone.

To get rich, you need two different skills -- one to make money, and one to keep it -- and they both compete for your time. If you only focus on being good at what you do professionally, you may see lot of money flowing through your hands, but the part that you don't spend will somehow disappear anyway.

> Most people who get rich get that way by saving money. That means living on less money than you can make. Indefinitely.

That's true, but it is much easier to save money if you already started with a large amount. With enough starting money, it simply means not spending more than the interest you get (after adjusting for inflation).

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by city41 »

kondu wrote: post #69
city41 wrote: post #30

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I think it depends on the company. I've worked at two megacorps, one where meetings were absolutely nonstop and the other where I had about 2 a week.

Do you mind telling us which one each was?

Sure. I had a lot of meetings at Netflix (was there for 5.5 years, left in July). I had almost no meetings at Microsoft (was there for 3.5 years, left 10 years ago).

This was just my experience. These are large companies so there is really no one overall experience, especially at MS.

Oh and I was an IC at both companies. More junior at MS.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by kecupochren »

canarysplit wrote: post #122

I've just launched a site which has a goal to collect different companies that support Gumroad's model - https://creatorjobs.co/ If anyone knows about this type of company, please contact me at contact@creatorjobs.co.

Bookmarked, hope to see it grow! :)

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by kingnothing »

citizenpaul wrote: post #140
kingnothing wrote: post #74

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You can also live just fine off that amount in most American cities. $40k is basically $2,500 / mo after tax. In the Atlanta area for example, there are plenty of nice 2-3 bedroom houses for $200,000 or even less, which puts your mortgage at $1,000 / mo. That leaves $1,500 / mo for a car, utilities, and food, which is plenty doable. Rent out a room if you want to for more income.

1k a month? Good luck with that. https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-calculator/

You aren't making any sense.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by canarysplit »

kecupochren wrote: post #146
canarysplit wrote: post #122

I've just launched a site which has a goal to collect different companies that support Gumroad's model - https://creatorjobs.co/ If anyone knows about this type of company, please contact me at contact@creatorjobs.co.

Bookmarked, hope to see it grow! :)

Thank you very much for the support. :)

I've launched the newsletter now, so if you're interested you can subscribe - https://creatorjobs.co/

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by baby »

switz wrote: post #47

My company is ran similarly; though I never raised VC and bootstrapped my way to profitability over 5 years as a solo founder. I provide a simple platform for people to play their friends on high quality CS:GO servers, while keeping track of their stats/wins/losses. https://popflash.site If you have played a lot of Counterstrike, have real-world technical skills, and are interested in a flexible autonomous environmen…

A decade ago, when I was still playing a lot of CS, I would have joined :) looks really interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

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Post by citizenpaul »

kingnothing wrote: post #147
citizenpaul wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1k a month? Good luck with that. https://www.zillow.com/mortgage-calculator/

You aren't making any sense.

Put in the numbers you suggested to the calculator. The only way you are getting under 1k month mortgage is if you have 20% of your down payment. I think the stats are something like 90% of homebuyers don't even put down 10% of the cost in down payment.
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