The Readme goes right to how to install it, and other than the logo saying "sell your stuff, see what sticks" there is 0 information about what it does. Sure I can Google, but I think it should be right there, at the top of the Readme.
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#182I saw this title and thought "the Australian craigslist is open source?" Then I realized I was confusing Gumroad and Gumtree.
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#183Time to train an "LLM" on it and have it reproduce the source code 1-to-1, so I can use it without a license!
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this reaction is misdirected. Yes, the license is restrictive, but Gumroad doesn't seem to be claiming themselves that the code is open source. I think OP made a mistake out of ignorance and said that it was open source.
The founder of Gumroad is claiming that [1]. > 14 years ago, Gumroad launched > Today, Gumroad goes open-source [1]: https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227
Thanks, this is new to me and not something I could infer from OP's link.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
The founder of Gumroad is claiming that [1]. > 14 years ago, Gumroad launched > Today, Gumroad goes open-source [1]: https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227
Thanks, this is new to me and not something I could infer from OP's link.
I think the original title for this submission also called it open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580533
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gumroad became my cautionary tale for startup equity for early engineers. I remember excitedly following the story from start. It was fun to follow along. Then around 2015 things weren’t working well, so they laid off most of the team. Investors sold the company back to the founder at a steep discount. As I recall, a major investor sold their ownership for $1. Just like that, the founding engineers who worked so hard…
How did lose all their equity? You can’t declare equity is worthless. You can raise new rounds with different valuations and dilute previous investors/employees but they would also dilute themselves.
Even if they don't "lose" their equity, it might just turn essentially worthless. Very often "equity" founding staff receives is in the form of (V)ESOP s = (virtual) employee stock options, or other equity grants that only materialize in the case of an "exit event". Depending on how the exit events are specified in the contract, the founder taking the company private (/ divestment from the investors) might have resulted in an exit event with $1 value of the company.
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#189I tried to grep the code for `api.` to get a sense for all the vendors this codebase is using, and which you'd need to have relationships with to run the code. Here's what I found:
payments:
https://api.paypal.com
https://api.stripe.com
https://api.taxjar.com
https://api.vatstack.com (EU VAT)
https://apiservices.iras.gov.sg
https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com
https://api.storekit.itunes.apple
https://api.iffy.com (AI content moderation)
https://api.helper.ai (AI support)
https://api.openai.com
https://api.easypost.com (shipping labels?)
https://api.sendgrid.com (email)
https://api.pwnedpasswords.com (haveibeenpwned)
https://api.worldbank.org (for purchasing power parity?)
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
To put it another way they want to call it open source without actually being open source.
I don’t think they actually call it open source themselves – rather, the HN poster made a (probably benign) mistake.
It's not a mistake because someone doesn't subscribe to the same definition as you. There are 2 widely competing definitions that are both perfectly valid, if you want to be more specific you can say "not OSI approved" to more accurately reflect what you're talking about, if you don't want to do that then you can understand how others feel.