Testing an idea for Gumroad sellers: testimonials that collect themselves. Real problem, or just mine?
I sell on Gumroad, and I could never keep up with asking buyers for testimonials — I'd mean to after each sale, then never do, and the handful I got ended up scattered across email and DMs. The existing tools are good, but none of them actually plug into Gumroad, and most watermark your proof until you pay $40–60/mo.
So I'm testing ProofDrop: it hooks into Gumroad, automatically asks each buyer for a testimonial right after they purchase, and drops the good ones into an embeddable wall — no watermark. It's not built yet — I've put up a page first to find out whether anyone actually wants it before I write a line of code.
Page: https://proofdrop.bekz56.workers.dev
What I'd genuinely value from you:
If you sell on Gumroad — is chasing testimonials a real pain, or am I inventing a problem?
Does the page make it obvious what it does, or is anything confusing?
There's a founding option on the page if you want to back it early, but honestly the gut-check matters more to me right now than a sale.
Chasing testimonials is a real pain for me too. I usually forget to ask until weeks after a sale, by which point the buyer has moved on. A simple automatic nudge right after purchase would genuinely help.
validating the landing page before writing code is the right move, i wish i'd done it that way. one thing worth naming though: existing tools at $60/mo isnt your real competitor. every gumroad seller who "means to ask" but forgets is already choosing $0 (their own todo list) over $60 (testimonial.to). you're not competing on price, you're competing on whether it's worth thinking about at all.
what would you charge the first 10 sellers who ask for it, and does that number let them try it without a "should i?" decision?
This is the sharpest thing anyone's said about it — you've named it better than I had: the competitor is the todo list, not the $60 tool. "Worth thinking about at all" is exactly the bar.
On your question — the page has a $29 one-time founding price, but honestly that's a commitment-test number, not the real answer; I wanted a clean yes/no on whether anyone cares before building. And you're right it still forces a small "should I?". For the actual product, if the enemy is inertia, the price has to sit under that decision threshold — probably free to start / prove-it-on-your-own-sales-first, so trying never costs a moment's thought and the value shows up before any spend. You've pushed me to treat "does this even need a decision?" as the real pricing test, which is more useful than picking a number.
I like that you're validating the workflow before building the product instead of assuming the integration itself creates demand.
I'll be interested to see what founders consistently describe as the hardest part of collecting testimonials. Those patterns will probably reveal whether the product is really about automation, timing, or making it easier to turn customer feedback into social proof.
Thanks — that's exactly the question I'm hoping the responses answer. My early hunch is that the hard part isn't collecting or displaying the testimonials, it's the asking — consistently, right after the sale. Almost everyone means to and then doesn't, so the automation matters less as a feature and more because it quietly removes the follow-through that always fails. But it's just a hunch, and I'd rather have it proven wrong by what people actually say than assume it.
Appreciate the context.
The gap between intending to ask and actually following through is an interesting problem to explore.
Would be good to hear what you learn from those conversations.
What's the best email to reach you on?