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Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by jhartist » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 10:35 PM UTC

ecuaflo wrote: post #25

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?

Yeah, I wonder about that. My hope is that other platforms’ fees are high enough to motivate creators to switch, and the transition to Easyful is pretty fast for most users, especially if you already have a Stripe account.

But I guess we’ll see whether we get any traction!

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by rogerclark » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 10:40 PM UTC

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.

Gumroad's design is itself a reuse of several design trends from 2021-2023. Wondermind is one example of another site using the same aesthetic. https://www.wondermind.com/

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by snvzz » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 10:42 PM UTC

Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011

Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403607

Don't Use Stripe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581

Stripe is about to refund €147k worth of payments to my all of my customers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271815

Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967159

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:08 PM UTC

fredley wrote: post #12

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

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Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by wahnfrieden » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

jhartist wrote: post #29

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

Stripe does not act as Merchant of Record. So it is not directly comparable to Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by vxNsr » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:11 PM UTC

rpgbr wrote: post #13

turnsout wrote: post #7

Earlier 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.

It makes. I run my membership program entirely via Stripe's built-in, no-code features: https://manualdousuario.net/apoie/

Have you done a write it up English for how that works? Does stripe send emails and you just have the emails contain the content as attachments or straight text?

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by dubcanada » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:12 PM UTC

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.

When you start competing with your customers, it typically doesn't end well.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by lolinder » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:30 PM UTC

snvzz wrote: post #33

Related: Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528 Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011 Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403607 Don't Use Stripe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581 Stripe is about to refund €147k wor…

Note that half of those submissions were flagged to death. I don't doubt that there are some legitimate stories here, but one of those is a repeated repost with verbatim content from months earlier, and others are very vague about what sort of business they were running. It's become common knowledge that making a big stink on HN can get a lot of attention and sometimes resolve your problems, so even people who were shut down for clear violations of policy or law will try to use HN to get a mob going.

Not that there aren't legitimate problems with Stripe, but the extent of those problems is blown out of proportion if you take all of these complaints at face value.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by snvzz » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:36 PM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #38

snvzz wrote: post #33

Related: Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528 Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011 Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403607 Don't Use Stripe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581 Stripe is about to refund €147k wor…

Note that half of those submissions were flagged to death. I don't doubt that there are some legitimate stories here, but one of those is a repeated repost with verbatim content from months earlier, and others are very vague about what sort of business they were running. It's become common knowledge that making a big stink on HN can get a lot of attention and sometimes resolve your problems, so even people who were s…

Seeing the discussions in these submissions doesn't give me that impression.

Instead, I am inclined to think that mass-flagging is being done by Stripe sockpuppets as a means of mitigating negative impact on Stripe's public image.

Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative

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Post by a2128 » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:44 PM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #35

jhartist wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Stripe does not act as Merchant of Record. So it is not directly comparable to Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle.

That's the term/information I was looking for. Thank you