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Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by jhartist »

Hi HN,

If you’re selling templates or digital assets online, platforms like Gumroad have a ton of amazing features . . . but they’re also expensive. It’s not uncommon to be paying 10%, 20% or even 30% of your revenue just to host and deliver some digital content to customers.

Instead, we think most creators should own their own Stripe account and use a lightweight fulfillment layer to send customers their orders.

So we built Easyful, a platform built on Stripe to email your content to customers when they buy it. And it’s free!

We’ve been using Easyful ourselves for a few months now. Try it out and let us know what you think!

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Post by scastiel »

scastiel wrote: post #3

Nice platform it seems, but I have a couple of questions: - If it is free, does that make me the product? How will you make money? - How do you prevent the problems that Flurly had, which led to Stripe closing their account?

Just had a closer look, it seems the second question’s answer is: creators use their own Stripe account, so the problem should not happen here.

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Post by turnsout »

GGO wrote: post #6
kreutz wrote: post #2

How do you plan to make money?

one way or another, you will pay for it. I'd rather know how much I am paying and pay more, then don't know and keep paying.

I really wish Stripe would just make something like this. Just the bare minimum necessary to host Checkout for products entered in your Stripe dashboard. I wonder if they can’t due to some onerous clause in their agreement with Shopify.

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Post by dgivney »

turnsout wrote: post #7
GGO wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one way or another, you will pay for it. I'd rather know how much I am paying and pay more, then don't know and keep paying.

I really wish Stripe would just make something like this. Just the bare minimum necessary to host Checkout for products entered in your Stripe dashboard. I wonder if they can’t due to some onerous clause in their agreement with Shopify.

I'm pretty sure they do with Stripe Checkout? https://stripe.com/en-au/payments/checkout

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Post by vikeri »

turnsout wrote: post #7
GGO wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one way or another, you will pay for it. I'd rather know how much I am paying and pay more, then don't know and keep paying.

I really wish Stripe would just make something like this. Just the bare minimum necessary to host Checkout for products entered in your Stripe dashboard. I wonder if they can’t due to some onerous clause in their agreement with Shopify.

Have you tried Stripe's payment links?
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