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I love this idea - I just wish they implement their own billing via Stripe instead of PayPal (not a big fan of PayPal for the obvious reasons).
I love the idea. It works like Bandcamp, but its for all type of files and it takes smaller cut (5% instead of 10%). Well done.
I love this idea - I just wish they implement their own billing via Stripe instead of PayPal (not a big fan of PayPal for the obvious reasons).
There are plans of integrating that. However, Stripe is limited only to US market, so still looking for better worldwide (at least US and Europe) solution.
I 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...
I 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...
Dropbox and Google Drive made uploading file super easy. You just drag&drop file on your hard drive and they take care about the rest. In addition to that, whenever you are going to update the file, you don't have to login. Again just drag&drop and Dropbox + Sellbox do the magic.
The % 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…
This is really useful for artists like musicians and so on... How do you plan to market it? What is the core audience?
Cool service! I spent a few months researching and writing an article about self-driving cars. I'm selling my research for $1 just as an experiment. https://sellboxhq.com/l/A6KW/How-Google-Cars-Will-Change-Com...
While $1.00 is not much in this particular case - I have no idea what the actual details of the file are that I am looking to buy.
The % 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…
The book is called Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails. It's a guide to integrating Stripe with your Rails app and includes a bunch of goodies that help make your integration robust in the face of failure.