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Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by keerthiko »

fredley wrote: post #12

Have you read Sahil Lavingia's blog? https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting

Is any content in this blog particularly relevant to Easyful's reason for existence or are you just mentioning it because you enjoyed the post?

(I remember reading it when Sahil posted that first, as a fellow bootstrapped tech cofounder but I don't remember anything of note from there to discuss re: Easyful)

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by fullstackchris »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #20

What'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.

Definitely noticed that too. Seems like a cheeky tip of the hat towards Gumroad.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by a2128 »

This looks cool, but I'm curious about how taxes work with this setup. From my understanding, Gumroad handles sales tax for you in a number of countries (US and EU at least). Does Easyful do something similar, or is that left up to the user to go through that headache on their own?

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by ecuaflo »

I made something similar for selling access to GitHub repos but it didn’t take off. People were hesitant to give a new product like mine access to their repos because we hadn’t built up trust that established brands like gumroad have. Makes it really hard for new players to enter this space. Have you seen similar concerns and how do you address them?

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by jhartist »

pyuser314 wrote: post #26

Stripe already has similar. It’s called Payment Links. Extremely easy and they manage all past transactions. https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links

Easyful is a layer on top of Stripe Payment Links that handles the fulfillment for you. All Easyful users are using Stripe Payment links.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by jhartist »

a2128 wrote: post #24

This looks cool, but I'm curious about how taxes work with this setup. From my understanding, Gumroad handles sales tax for you in a number of countries (US and EU at least). Does Easyful do something similar, or is that left up to the user to go through that headache on their own?

Stripe actually handles taxes for you with Payment Links, and Easyful is just a fulfillment layer on top of that.

Check out the Stripe docs page about it: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/paymentlinks

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by janosdebugs »

I started making 3D assets in the past year and I have a newfound appreciation just how large these files can be. A single 3D model can easily grow to several hundred megabytes if not optimized properly. With the rise of photogrametry scans you'll have lots of rather large assets.

I'd figure out the business model fast if I was you.

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