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The payout times and fees you advertise for competitors charging are overly inflated by like double at least.

Once you move away from Shopify or woocommerce there are plenty of companies offering these services with similar enough interfaces. Sellfy, selly, rocketr to name a few that have been around ~3+ years.

Most of these have clones that offer free services in all major payment options and cryptocurrencies.

I think you will need to differentiate your company more to have any traction. Creator sponsoring of some nature seems like the best suggestion I read here. Good luck

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Both Sellfy and Selly charge a monthly fee starting at $20 to even create a store. Rocketr has stalled/been abandoned since early 2019 if I'm not mistaken.

However, I do agree with you in that we need to differentiate ourselves a little more, which is what we'll be doing as we progress with our roadmap. Sponsoring does indeed look like a good way to get traction going and we'll definitely be looking into that as a viable way to grow our userbase.

Many thanks for the feedback!

But sellfy started at under 5% fees and selly was originally free. These are the pricing models they moved to with the hopes of growing beyond the percent commissions which honestly isn't that great for the general “indie” market.

They do both have multiple clones that have popped up and which you could eventually probably find for free.

Sellfy sort of went with artists if I remember correctly. Another one focused on films. Another on ebooks. Others stay general to digital products but be aware you're also going to have to combat fraud.

Rocketr continues to process orders but development did for the most part stall after not being able to move toward payment processing more generally (costly).

Sharing this as a former team member

Yeah, you're right with their respective histories, though I do think a freemium model with a relatively low fee/tx can definitely work (look at e.g. Gumroad/Shoppy)

We do also indeed have plans for a fraud detection system to help combat fraud.

Btw since you're a former team member, I think we might have crossed paths on HF a couple years ago :)

That's fair, good luck.

I do mean fraud by sellers not buyers though.

The others were more active but quite possibly. Good luck on th journey m8 hmu if you like.

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