Where would you host a paid data-product?
I know several indiehackers that sell data-products on airtable and use Gumroad to sell it.
Do you know any other alternatives and their pros/cons?
I know several indiehackers that sell data-products on airtable and use Gumroad to sell it.
Do you know any other alternatives and their pros/cons?
Can you define data-product for me?
I'm building a data platform but am not exactly sure what you're after.
Mainly a spreadsheet. I'd like to rotect it from being sent as a link and have users get notifications when data is updated in it (when I decide).
Apologies for the late reply.
Is the spreadsheet just a dataset or is there more to it?
Just data
Thanks, one day, when I launch Trilli, that's one of the features I have on the roadmap, I guess I should prioritise it highly.
Effectively, users will be able to curate their own private datasets ave sell access to them with Trilli handling all the payment and access control.
If you'd be willing to be a beta tester then I'll let you know when I'm close to launch.
PayPal is not supported here so I used ko-fi and buymeacoffee. Linked my Stripe account. Both are different from Gumroad but I managed to land a few sales over there.
There is also Flurly, closest solution to Gumroad with way lesser fees. Listed a product there but haven't made a sale yet.
Cons are;
You need to play by their terms. Some of them keep the money for a while, if you are willing to spent it on marketing you gotta wait until they are pleased. Then stripe holds it for another week (probably for new merchants), so it become harder to manage money flow.
You are introducing another step for your customers, they may be okay to pay you in site but forwarding them to another platform forcing them to create an account etc may put them off.
If they are not familiar with the platform, same thing may occur.
Pros are;
It's easy. They all provide the same experience, you upload your stuff or give it a link, put your price, add discounts, all the functionality is there.
Have you tried https://paytable.io ? I just searched for it and it seems promising.
Nah, checked their pricing. It's not for me.
$0/mo - 1 product - 10% transaction fees
$29/mo - Unlimited products - 2% transaction fees
To solve these;
STEP 1 - Setup your checkout and payment links
STEP 2 - Configure automations to trigger email on new sale
STEP 3 - Send customers direct document access links
Maybe it'd be ok to pay one time fee of $29 for a white label solution. But since kofi and buymeacoffee offers similar solutions for less while providing many upsell opportunities. I don't think their greed will pay off.
Do they also guard the content?
I'm not sure what do you mean by that. But in any case if I get access to content I'm pretty sure I can scrape it. Anyways I'm not saying no one should use it, apparently some people do. It doesn't fit me.
The paytable guys probably add a reverse proxy so at least you can't easily send the link to someone that didn't pay. Probably they can remove the option to easily export the data.