Beautiful lading page and generous app. Thank you for making tools like this that help small-time creators improve their margins :) I used Payhip for my last project but I will bookmark this one to make sure I use it in the future
Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
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Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#52Earlier 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.
They do appear have this with links
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#53Is this a point of sales or am I the one selling? If it's not a POS it's not an alternative.
[Edit] Searching the website, it looks like it is not a POS.
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#54Nice project, but this is a bit of a misrepresentation of Gumroad.
The reason you “give up” so much money to them is because they handle VAT, which this service doesn’t seem to do at all.
Stripe by default will not collect and remit VAT.
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#55I won’t use a service like this if it’s free. Without a pricing or business plan I’m worried it will shutdown any moment or doesn’t get maintained anymore. Where do I go if I need support? This doesn’t sound like a long term sustainable business.
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#56Could you look into possibly switching to Adyen or an NMI gateway?
This should be the advice at the top. If you want to be comparable to Gumroad, you're better off using Adyen because they are a Merchant Of Record.
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#57How 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.
In other words, you just ignore the topic.
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#58Nice project, but this is a bit of a misrepresentation of Gumroad. The reason you “give up” so much money to them is because they handle VAT, which this service doesn’t seem to do at all. Stripe by default will not collect and remit VAT.
> because they handle VAT
Not everywhere unfortunately, so I still have to pay attention to it, which I can't so it's a show-stopper for me.
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#59How 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,…
What exactly are you using it for yourself?
Re: Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The person who called out "Don't Use Stripe" [0] tied a very legitimate account to their accusation. jacquesm is a very prominent user, and called out another one for being too vague, with no reply [1]. The third was clearly selling an NSFW AI service [2] and admitted it. The other three I'm willing to believe, I'm just cautioning against believing every submission you see. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34…
Thanks for diving into the evidence for us. It's an important lesson not to believe everything you read on HN.
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