I built a flash sale platform for digital creators solo from Bangladesh — v1 is live today
Hey IH 👋
Quick launch update: After 2 months of building in public, dropanda is officially live!
The Problem:
Standard store platforms take 10-15% per transaction. On top of that, creators in regions without native Stripe/PayPal support face massive friction just trying to receive payouts for their digital products.
The Solution:
dropanda allows creators (ebooks, templates, UI kits, courses) to run 24 to 72-hour flash drops.
Buyers pay USDT directly
Creator keeps 95% of every sale
Zero monthly fees, zero Stripe dependencies
Minimalistic countdown landing pages designed to drive urgency
Tech Stack:
Next.js 15, Neon PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, Upstash Redis, NOWPayments, Cloudflare R2, Vercel. Built solo using Antigravity AI + Claude.
We already have our first creator signups testing the flow. Would love brutal honest feedback on the landing page clarity and overall setup: https://dropanda.xyz/🐼
Your real wedge is buried under the wrong headline. "Flash sale platform" makes it a feature Gumroad already has. The unmet thing is in your own problem statement: creators in regions without Stripe/PayPal can't get paid at all, people locked out of selling digital products entirely. Lead with that, not the countdown timer.
"Get paid anywhere Stripe doesn't reach" is a painkiller for a desperate person. "Run flash sales" is a vitamin competing with incumbents. Same product, but payout-access framing has less competition and far more urgency.
USDT is the mechanism that makes the real promise possible, that's the story. Who's your first creator, and where based? That probably confirms the wedge.