This is really useful for artists like musicians and so on... How do you plan to market it? What is the core audience?
Completely agreed. This is a genius way to bypass the iTunes Store and Kindle Book Store.
It reminds me of gumroad.com
Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
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#12Very nice!
We wrote a blog post on doing this with Zapier: https://zapier.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-selling-downlo... except you can mix and match any payment, storage and email/notification system and start to augment it however you like.
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#13I really like the idea but scary immediate stuff for layperson:
Screen 1) Login. Screen 2) Dropbox: "This app will be able to read and modify everything." Screen 3) Paypal: Login to Paypal, go to "Resolution Centre" and "Remove Limitations".
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#14The 5% cut is a big problem. It's inherently not fair. They aren't making a market (like an App store), promoting my files, creating my content, or otherwise providing value that scales with the growth of the success of my product. Why are they entitled to $5 on my $100 or $10 on my $200 if that's the price I choose? Charging a fixed price per sale is more fair + any %fees you might incur from payment processing. Cle…
Well, you're paying for the middle man. They setup and main the infrastructure for persons that are not technically inclined and for whom it's not feasible to hire a coder to do it for them.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#15The 5% cut is a big problem. It's inherently not fair. They aren't making a market (like an App store), promoting my files, creating my content, or otherwise providing value that scales with the growth of the success of my product. Why are they entitled to $5 on my $100 or $10 on my $200 if that's the price I choose? Charging a fixed price per sale is more fair + any %fees you might incur from payment processing. Cle…
Well, you're paying for the middle man. They setup and main the infrastructure for persons that are not technically inclined and for whom it's not feasible to hire a coder to do it for them.
No argument! They should charge for the service, but not a % of the value I create.
It costs them the same to deliver a $5 file as it does a $50, apart from the transaction fees claimed by their upstream payment processor.
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#16A very interesting concept, but after clicking on "Start with Drive", one of the permissions requested is the ability to "Upload, download, update, and delete files in your Google Drive"
Now, I don't know if there are more granular permissions than that, but if so, you might want to restrict things further so that files can only be added to my Google Drive (and possibly updated, for those that I've purchased via Sellbox).
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#17I wonder what that muchacho file is. Anyone know?
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#18I don't understand the advantage of using cloud storage instead of uploading a file. Unless I were selling a 4GB file and it was already in Dropbox and I was in a hurry...
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#19The % transaction fee is a turndown. I have been looking for a solution to distribute digital goods, and I try to stay away from anything that is a percentage, it does not scale once you have hundreds of sales.
They are not absorbing the Paypal transaction fee, which means that on top of the 5% I would still be charged the 2.6% that Paypal wants (amount vary). So, unless the service provides a payment gateway, where is that 5% coming from? That starts adding to the cost really fast.
It might not be pretty but ejunkie (http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/pricing.htm) has a fixed cost of 5 dollars. It ends up being cheaper as soon as I sell more than 10 copies of any $10 digital goods.
For something prettier than ejunkie (but with way less features), PulleyApp does a fixed price of $6 (http://pulleyapp.com/signup). The only reason I am not using PulleyApp is because I wanted different paypal email addresses (for microtransactions vs. regular one - different fees), and at some point the ability to call a backend service does matter for integration.
I don't really see why I would use a service that takes a commission and does not charge a fixed price unless they have a value added service. As it stands, there are better alternatives already that do the same thing.
The new thing in here is the DropBox and Google Drive integration, but that is not enough for me to justify using them.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, you're paying for the middle man. They setup and main the infrastructure for persons that are not technically inclined and for whom it's not feasible to hire a coder to do it for them.
No argument! They should charge for the service, but not a % of the value I create. It costs them the same to deliver a $5 file as it does a $50, apart from the transaction fees claimed by their upstream payment processor.
Interesting...and I don't disagree.
How would you like them to charge for a service like this?