Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
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Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#2Love your site design - great use of whitespace and big, bold images! It would be nice to see a sample of a cart/page before signing up so you know what your "shop" will look like..
Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#3In what ways is this different to Gumroad [1]?
Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#4In what ways is this different to Gumroad [1]? [1] http://gumroad.com
Gumroad's a platform for people who want to sell digital things they create and has a 5% fee.
We're a platform for long tail merchants. So for example - you'd sell the psd your not going to use in your app on gumroad, but you'd sell the final app through chec. - if that helps. - we also only charge 3.5% and can do a lot more with downloads + handle physical products.
We position ourselves between Gumroad & Shopify (if they did payments).
on a side note - me and sahil know each other well. Back in april 2011 when Chec was called Kout I actually reached out to him to join Kout after he launch groad on hackernews. He said "you've already built the software why do you need me" but we've kept in touch and occasionally get coffee and discuss the space.
Link based selling has been around for years. 2checkout, 1shoppingcart, paypal, ejunkie, quixly etc have been at it for a while. I came up with the idea for Chec after i ended up throwing a PayPal checkout in an iframe for a info product i was selling.
P.S - if anybody is wondering about the 2 year gap between launching - that story will come to light shortly.
Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#5Love your site design - great use of whitespace and big, bold images! It would be nice to see a sample of a cart/page before signing up so you know what your "shop" will look like..
The site is impossible to use on mobile.
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Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#8My 0.02c: you should change the name. If you already have to append "(kout)" to explain it to hackers, it will be 10x more difficult marketing it to a larger crowd. Or you can start printing stickers that read "you know, without the 'k'" ;-)
Apart from this, great design!
Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#9Love your site design - great use of whitespace and big, bold images! It would be nice to see a sample of a cart/page before signing up so you know what your "shop" will look like..
That's a great idea and we plan on adding a sample page very soon.
For now, you can view the video under the "Beautiful Checkout" section on the main page. It will show you a sample page and flow of the checkout.
Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.
#10In what ways is this different to Gumroad [1]? [1] http://gumroad.com
Gumroad's a platform for people who want to sell digital things they create and has a 5% fee. We're a platform for long tail merchants. So for example - you'd sell the psd your not going to use in your app on gumroad, but you'd sell the final app through chec. - if that helps. - we also only charge 3.5% and can do a lot more with downloads + handle physical products. We position ourselves between Gumroad & Shopify (i…
The example you gave with PSD and app is not clear to me. Can't I sell my app through Gumroad ?