[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":658},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-31364983":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":48,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":86,"maker_in_thread":207,"shape":220,"grid":225,"attempts":620,"same_week":621,"maker_shows":43,"maker_hidden":650,"reader_version":651,"card":652},"31364983","Fruits","Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc","title","Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc","https:\u002F\u002Ffruits.de\u002Fen","fruits.de","peteconcrete",1652432516,2022,185,148,317,2570,13,"notable","web_saas","digital product sales","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"sell digital products","sales link","vat collection","ebook sales","curious",-0.127,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},12,47,5,22,86,{"pricing":37,"docs":40,"idea":42,"design":44,"execution":46,"privacy":47},{"positive":38,"critical":39},0,6,{"positive":38,"critical":41},3,{"positive":39,"critical":43},1,{"positive":45,"critical":38},2,{"positive":38,"critical":33},{"positive":38,"critical":38},[43,41,43,38,38,38,38,38,41,41,38,41,43,33,41,33,41,43,43,43,45,49,43,41,43,49,45,45,33,49,41,45,43,33,43,41,49,41,43,33],4,"Hi HN!\n\nWhilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!\nTaking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on \"fruits\", which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Ffruits.de\u002Fen\n\nIt works as simple as this:\n\n1. upload a file at \"fruits\" & set a price\n2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link\n3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)\n\nIn addition, we also take care of the tedio",{"problem":52,"audience":58,"pricing":62,"motivation":74,"time_to_build":82,"stack":83,"openness":84,"stage":85,"team_size":84},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Creators need a simple way to sell files like ebooks and music, with invoicing and VAT handled.","maker",[56],{"id":57},"post",{"value":59,"source":54,"evidence":60},"Content creators selling digital files, coachings and designs.",[61],{"id":57},{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Per-sale fee plus a bookkeeping fee of 0.49 EUR, per the price calculator.","commenter",[66,70],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"31365445","closedloop129","Is €0.49 for bookkeeping a competitive price? For a €1.99 product, that's more than the paypal fees at €0.40. Apart from bookkeeping in their own system, paypal also has to…",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"31365201","pcmill","What is the \"bookkeeping\" fee in the price calculator for? https:\u002F\u002Ffruits.de\u002Fen\u002Fpayment\u002Fprice-calculator",{"value":75,"source":54,"evidence":76},"Pivot from a failed community product for content creators to a simpler MVP.",[77,81],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"31367547","donjoe","Hi, dev here, thanks for the input! Fruits is a pivot for fanbase.com which sadly didn't make it. Within a few days, we managed to build fruits and launched it as the quickest…",{"id":57},null,[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":87,"objections":99,"requests":144,"questions":160,"alternatives":180},[88],{"value":89,"source":64,"evidence":90},"Simple idea and quick setup.",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"31365356","pabloem","Congrats for shipping! I love the simplicity of the idea. It reminds me a lot to Drop to sell[0]. At first glance, both cover the same use case, or is there any significant…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"31386238","smarri","Congrats on the MVP. I got a test of your service up and running very quickly and smoothly. The biggest feature request for me would be simple custom branding to make the user…",[100,111,121,129],{"value":101,"source":64,"evidence":102},"Missing legal imprint and unclear VAT handling.",[103,107],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"31366003","mstolpm","Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service: You don't have a legally valid \"Impressum\" on fruits.de: It points to…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"31365867","ar0","Great idea. However, I think you need to be careful in the VAT area not to overpromise: I selected “selling from Switzerland to Switzerland” and your calculator quoted a VAT of…",{"value":112,"source":64,"evidence":113},"Only PayPal supported at launch.",[114,118],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"31365915","Hackbraten","As a creator of digital products: great site, congrats! As a consumer: PayPal only? I’m outta here. I don’t like my money randomly frozen on a whim. Are you folks planning to…",{"id":119,"by":11,"text":120},"31367716","Thank you for the feedback. The Paypal integration was now for the MVP our first payment function. On the one hand because Paypal is the most important payment option in Germany…",{"value":122,"source":64,"evidence":123},"Fees are high for small purchases.",[124,128],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"31366257","dan1234","I made a little test file & purchase - how do I actually get paid? First impressions are that it seems very expensive for smaller purchases - my $2.00 turned into $0.56 (and then…",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"value":130,"source":64,"evidence":131},"Risk of selling illegal goods and fraud.",[132,136,140],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"31365976","andyjih_","My immediate thought is that people will use this to sell pirated and\u002For illegal goods. I’m curious how you plan to address this issue?",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"31367751","ramesh31","People are 100% going to sell drugs with this.",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"31366822","LudwigNagasena","Any precautions against money laundering and fraud?",[145,152],{"value":146,"source":64,"evidence":147},"Explain how money reaches the seller after a purchase.",[148],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"31366538","jameshart","Immediate feedback on your simple ‘step 1 - 2 - 3’ explanation… It’s great to reduce the steps down to so few, but I feel like you’re missing an explanation of the follow up…",{"value":153,"source":64,"evidence":154},"Custom branding on the buyer page.",[155,156],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"31365327","probabletrain","Any plans to make the download\u002Fpayment page more customizable e.g. formatting\u002Fimages in the description, or giving sellers control over the background?",[161,169],{"value":162,"source":64,"evidence":163},"How is VAT handled across countries?",[164,168],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"31366059","Aillustrator","How will taxes be handled? I am in Europe. That means every time I sell something, I need to charge taxes depending on the country of the buyer. And once a year, I have to make a…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"value":170,"source":64,"evidence":171},"How are KYC and money laundering handled?",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"31365922","Trigalti","How do you deal with KYC \u002F Money laundering practices?",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"31372214","tomschwiha","Congratiolations! 1. How do you handle inner EU-vat free excemption (validation of tax numbers)? 2. How easy or hard was your KYC-integration? As payment processor in Germany I…",[181,192,203],{"value":182,"source":64,"evidence":183},"Gumroad",[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"31365391","fxtentacle","How does this differ from Gumroad?",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"31365324","velcro","congratulations on the launch! how does this compare to Gumroad?",{"value":193,"source":64,"evidence":194},"Paddle and Revin",[195,199],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"31367341","mixedbit","A lot of feedback here mentions tax compliance. Perhaps you could use a company like paddle.com to actually handle the payments and act as a merchant of record for each…",{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"31400530","deadcoder0904","this is awesome. how is it different from paddle.com or getrevin.com? it looks like a merchant of record :)",{"value":204,"source":64,"evidence":205},"Drop to sell",[206],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},{"comments":208,"answered":209,"key":210},14,7,[211,214,217],{"id":212,"text":213},"31365398","Thank you very much! The service was actually not yet known to us. But it also looks very exciting.",{"id":215,"text":216},"31365458","We will handle the intl. taxation for sellers and hand out invoices to the buyers. With us you also don't have the hassle of creating your own Stripe account, API key etc etc. We…",{"id":218,"text":219},"31365709","Thank you! 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