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by youseff 5y ago
Sell.app | Contract - Full-Time - Co-founder | REMOTE Hey everyone, founder of sell.app here. SellApp is a simple way to sell digital products online. A digital goods seller can spin up a storefront in less than a minute and start selling i
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by youseff 5y ago
We've launched just last week, so there aren't any sizeable businesses who've joined SellApp (yet). However, the few dozen sellers I did have a chance to talk to, primarily cite three reasons why they switch to us instead of
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by youseff 5y ago
They are indeed part of what's difficult, which is why we'll be bringing out a number of tools & features to help simplify things.
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by youseff 5y ago
Thanks Krishna! We are not a MoR, and aren't planning on becoming one either. There's already fairly decent MoR solutions out there which take payments on the seller's behalf and distribute funds after a given timeframe (usua
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by youseff 5y ago
Gumroad seems to be focusing more and more on creators with a large following and is pivoting towards that segment of the market. This includes the decision to diversify into physical products, subscribing to a user (like Patreon), email ma
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by youseff 5y ago
Just checked, you should have received a verification mail sent to the email you entered during sign-up. Once you click on that, you'll be able to sign in.
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by youseff 5y ago
Great question! For now, the seller has to deal with taxes themselves, but we plan on introducing a number of nifty ways to streamline & automate this process.
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by youseff 5y ago
This is a tough one, since it'd be difficult to verify whether the Netflix account does indeed belong to you (versus of it being hacked). I'd say if it's a one-off sale, you're good to go. But if it's more than one
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by youseff 5y ago
Hey there, I can't, but feel free to email me directly on yousef 'at' sell.app
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by youseff 5y ago
I'm off for a couple hours, it's 2AM here, but will get back to this as soon as I wake up. Thanks a lot for the candid feedback HN, learned a lot from talking to you all! I've already gone ahead and implemented most suggested
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by youseff 5y ago
Hey, we do indeed use Maxmind for our VPN/proxy detection. So far the experience has been pretty good.
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by youseff 5y ago
Many thanks! :D
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by youseff 5y ago
I haven't thought about it like that. Will definitely go about it the way you suggested and remove the "free" badge. Appreciate the suggestion and feedback!
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by youseff 5y ago
You can indeed spin up a store at absolutely no cost. There's no tracking or A/B testing yet, but you'll definitely be able to see which product performs better in terms of sales.
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by youseff 5y ago
Ah, good suggestion! Will add that in to prevent confusion
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by youseff 5y ago
Hey there, I just created an example listing costing 10 cents: https://admin.sell.app/listing/ycombinator-news-test-purchas... - The listing has a volume discount, so if you make the quantity 10 or more, it'll aut
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by youseff 5y ago
Yeah, you're right with their respective histories, though I do think a freemium model with a relatively low fee/tx can definitely work (look at e.g. Gumroad/Shoppy) We do also indeed have plans for a fraud detection system t
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by youseff 5y ago
One of the things I did, was draft a complete design of the project structure in advance of actually writing any code. This included only the essential features with no additional bells/whistles in order to prevent feature creep. By th
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by youseff 5y ago
Both Sellfy and Selly charge a monthly fee starting at $20 to even create a store. Rocketr has stalled/been abandoned since early 2019 if I'm not mistaken. However, I do agree with you in that we need to differentiate ourselves a
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by youseff 5y ago
Thank you! And yes, we post regular product updates on both our Discord as well as Twitter ( https://twitter.com/AppSell )
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by youseff 5y ago
Agreed on the first point, however the common thing of storefronts like ours is that they start with digital goods, then tack in physical products, email marketing, affiliate marketing, and so on. All on the same interface. Stripe and SellA
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by youseff 5y ago
Not a worry. We don't have eBook watermarking/stamping yet, so every customer will get the same exact eBook. That said, it's relatively easy to implement this specific feature (pretty sure I've got the relevant code from
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by youseff 5y ago
With SellApp you can sell both your programming services as well as IP, that's the interesting thing about our platform. We don't limit you on what kind of product you sell, as long as it's digital (and not illegal)
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by youseff 5y ago
Hey there, thank you! The restriction in our AUP is indeed because payment processors (unfortunately) still frown upon platforms which help facilitate the sale of 'adult content'. Without it, it's unlikely we'll be accep
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by youseff 5y ago
Heh, that's definitely not the case here! I don't think there's very many digital good sellers active on Hacker News to begin with.
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by youseff 5y ago
That's a small experiment I'm carrying out. People on the internet tend to love free 'badges' - if you've ever been active on a forum, they're full of them. The "Free store" badge is what a seller get
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by youseff 5y ago
Great question! Gumroad seems to be focusing more and more on creators with a large following and is pivoting towards that segment of the market. This includes the decision to diversify into physical products, tipping, subscribing to a user
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by youseff 5y ago
Hey, I am indeed! I actually obtained the toffee.com domain on a lease from a company (venture.com) back when funds were very limited and the lease made sense. When I raised funding earlier this year and inquired about a potential outright
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by youseff 5y ago
Delivery happens when the customer successfully completes a payment. The value add is this: If you sell e.g. a downloadable product, it's relatively easy to manually email out a link to it every time you make a sale. But when you start
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by youseff 5y ago
Great to hear, wishing you the best of luck with your product! And yeah, Tailwind is really mind-blowing in how good it is. By the way, the Tailwind team will soon release an eCommerce package, so you might want to look out for that (I sure

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