Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures • Hacker News Board

Re: Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

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Post by PaDuerriel » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 9:14 AM UTC

mattjaynes wrote: post #7

Interesting. I've been a customer of theirs for ~2 years. It's been really great until a couple months ago. Then something seemed to change. Rather than just being a great payment provider, they seemed to change direction in order to become a "platform". In emailing with Sahil about my concerns about Gumroad's new direction, he said "We want Gumroad to be the core channel for everything. We started with sales, and ar…

Use Selz. Do everything Gumroad does/did but also plugs in stuff like Mailchimp, Aweber, Campain Monitor etc etc. Don't know anything about SendOul.

Re: Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

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Post by sampotts » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 9:53 PM UTC

jerrell wrote: post #52

mattjaynes wrote: post #7

Interesting. I've been a customer of theirs for ~2 years. It's been really great until a couple months ago. Then something seemed to change. Rather than just being a great payment provider, they seemed to change direction in order to become a "platform". In emailing with Sahil about my concerns about Gumroad's new direction, he said "We want Gumroad to be the core channel for everything. We started with sales, and ar…

I've been using SendOwl for a few years now to sell music education eBooks and albums directly through my website. I can't recommend it highly enough. Here are a few things I like: - It works 100% reliably, has never let me down - The checkout process is easy and neat from the customer's perspective - Supports PayPal and Stripe which is the ideal imho - Integrates with all popular email providers so you can do produc…

So you... work for them?

Re: Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

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Post by Georgio_1999 » Mon, Nov 09, 2015, 8:54 PM UTC

baobaba wrote: post #58

Georgio_1999 wrote: post #50

I run a company called SendOwl, which is probably the biggest competitor to Gumroad, and I must admit I'm sad to see this. We've been watching them over the years and have been impressed with some of the work they've delivered. I've also met a few of their employees and have liked their thinking around selling digital goods and where it's going. You could see they wanted to make a success of the company. Their proble…

I just read your blog post on the topic. We need more voices like yours.

Thanks so much - we're going to be talking about this much more in the future