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New, Simplified Pricing on Gumroad: Pay Less as You Earn More(gumroad.gumroad.com)
5 points by sahillavingia 5y ago|1 comments
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by sahillavingia 5y ago
We do this at Gumroad. Works great; will never go back.
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Dealing with Depression and My Newest Investment(honehealth.com)
6 points by sahillavingia 5y ago|1 comments
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BaseTen: The fastest way to build ML-powered applications(baseten.co)
20 points by sahillavingia 5y ago|4 comments
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The Creator-Owner Economy: Gumroad’s “IPO”(sahillavingia.com)
16 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|1 comments
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Invest in Gumroad's Crowdfunding Round(republic.co)
13 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|1 comments
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by sahillavingia 6y ago
Hey, #1 on Hacker News! I don't think that's happened since...I wrote Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company back in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733 Thanks HN for being a pa
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No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees(sahillavingia.com)
1329 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|517 comments
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A Tiny Case Study in Automation(philipkiely.com)
2 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|0 comments
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Gumroad now offers Patreon-like memberships to support creators(theverge.com)
8 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|0 comments
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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market(techcrunch.com)
6 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|0 comments
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by sahillavingia 6y ago
Solo founder of Gumroad here. Highly recommended. It forced me to learn a lot more about every aspect of building a business than I would have otherwise. I'm also a fan of investing in solo founders: https://shl.vc
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Angel Investing: Check Sizes(ilya.sukhar.com)
4 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|0 comments
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Earnest Capital Trailhead(earnestcapital.com)
162 points by sahillavingia 6y ago|54 comments
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by sahillavingia 7y ago
Does Gumroad count? We raised VC but most of that was bought back or written off. I run it by myself now. Gumroad helps creators sell digital products directly to their audiences. We're expanding to Memberships this year. I wrote about
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by sahillavingia 7y ago
We (Gumroad) open sourced ours: http://github.com/gumroad/wilfred Here's what it looks like: https://twitter.com/shl/status/1128039742308737024/photo/2
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by sahillavingia 7y ago
Since I'm the only one on the board, every meeting is a board meeting :)
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“What Is Gumroad?”(medium.com)
1 points by sahillavingia 7y ago|0 comments
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Open-sourcing our commit verification tool, Wilfred(medium.com)
13 points by sahillavingia 7y ago|0 comments
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
This is a huge problem with Gmail. They've been filtering legitimate receipts and things from Gumroad in the last couple of months, and I've heard similar things from founders of several other companies. Please check your Spam fol
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
Fair enough. I think I'd make this change if I could go back in time!
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
Oops, I think I nixed that to use in a future article purely on raising money. My bad!
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
I don't think Gumroad could be the high-quality, full-featured product it is today without raising VC funding. Less, maybe, but bootstrapped, no. (Though, I was living in SF.)
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
$1.1M @ 1X $7M @ 1X $2.25M (the bridge I mention) @ 4X
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
I'm sorry you had those interactions with me in the past! I think I've grown since, but it still sucks to hear that about past-me.
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
I really tried to avoid being prescriptive about the solutions. It's a lot easier to talk about the problems :) > aren't interested in these questions of what-could-have-been at this point Exactly. If we shipped this or that fe
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
We do offer subscriptions! https://help.gumroad.com/11163-products-and-customizations/s...
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
Hey, #1 on Hacker News! I don't think that's happened since...I launched Gumroad back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614 Thanks HN for being a part of my journey!
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
I prefer not to do the math.
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by sahillavingia 8y ago
Yes, we're working on updating the iOS app as we speak and will move onto the Android app after that. First half of this year.

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