How do you plan to make money?
Stripe offers revenue share to platforms such as Shopify [1]. Easyful could go this path.
[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515...
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#12Have you read Sahil Lavingia's blog?
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#13Earlier 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.
It makes. I run my membership program entirely via Stripe's built-in, no-code features: https://manualdousuario.net/apoie/
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#14How do you plan to make money?
Good question: we mostly built Easyful to use ourselves, but if it gets a significant of usage we might build some more advanced pro features and sell those features as a paid tier upgrade, while keeping the base app free.
We've had success with that model before with Smallchat, a saas app we launched several years ago, and it's still going strong supporting millions of free users.
With low-operating-cost saas apps, you can get away with offering a pretty generous free tier. A small percentage of paid users can more than pay for your mostly-free user base.
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#15How do you handle sales tax across all the jurisdictions for makers, are you a merchant of record like Gumroad?
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#16Nice 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?
Longer answer to your question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055297
tldr; we might add some paid features in the future but keep the base app free since operating costs are low.
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#17What is the problem with Gumroad? I only used it as a buyer a few times and this is a couple of years ago. It seemed to me they are on the good side and fair to sellers and buyers? Was I wrong, has it changed or are they still ok?
Gumroad is great! But their pricing model (flat 10%) doesn't make sense for many creators.
We think it's better for most creators to own their own Stripe accounts and use a lightweight fulfillment platform like Easyful instead.
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#18How do you handle sales tax across all the jurisdictions for makers, are you a merchant of record like Gumroad?
Good question: we are not a merchant of record, and Easyful doesn’t even process transactions. We’re just a fulfillment layer that plugs into Stripe payment links.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Definitely check them out - they're great. Easyful is just a fulfillment layer that plugs into Stripe payment links for emailing customers your content when they buy something.
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#20What's up with the design? It's really nice, but also very similar to Gumroad's visual language. Not really criticism, just curious about the idea behind it.