Tech Stack for an e-book?
This might sound like a silly question, but what would you guys recommend as an improvement on a PDF that you sell on gumroad/amazon? For example. Pieter Levels did a great job with https://readmake.com// and I'd love to know the tech stack behind that
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@SuDa2103 I initially wanted to answer here in this thread but I rather turned it into a separate post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-2022-tech-stack-for-an-e-book-lessons-learned-ce34886908
Awesome, thanks!
I was doing this recently for my first ebook.
I'm selling it via Gumroad because it makes selling internationally very easy. I also have a website, which is a simple Python app. When people buy the book on Gumroad, they get a license key, which gives them access to a HTML version of the ebook which is hosted on my website.
You could build a website for your ebook with literally anything - just use what you're comfortable with. A static site generator is probably a good choice.
Also, consider if you really need a website. You can make your Gumroad page look really good with a bit of effort.
Okay interesting! Thanks for the response. That might be the way to go - a website and you give out the license keys when people buy on gumroad
Yeah. I have seen that with an ebook as well. gumroad+license key
https://www.apiforpm.tech/
The license keys are awesome. The API to validate them is really straight forward too.