Fruits
Web and SaaS
digital product sales
SHOW HN2022
185points
148comments
#317of 2,570 in 2022
Top 13%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
12 positive, 47 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 22 critical, out of 86 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 6 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple idea and quick setup.
From 2 comments
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…
pabloem on HNCongrats 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…
smarri on HN
Objections
Missing legal imprint and unclear VAT handling.
From 2 comments
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…
mstolpm on HNGreat 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…
ar0 on HN
Only PayPal supported at launch.
From 2 comments
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…
Hackbraten on HNThank 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…
peteconcrete on HN
Fees are high for small purchases.
From 2 comments
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…
dan1234 on HNIs €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…
closedloop129 on HN
Risk of selling illegal goods and fraud.
From 3 comments
My immediate thought is that people will use this to sell pirated and/or illegal goods. I’m curious how you plan to address this issue?
andyjih_ on HNPeople are 100% going to sell drugs with this.
ramesh31 on HNAny precautions against money laundering and fraud?
LudwigNagasena on HN
Requests
Explain how money reaches the seller after a purchase.
From 1 comment
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…
jameshart on HN
Custom branding on the buyer page.
From 2 comments
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…
smarri on HNAny plans to make the download/payment page more customizable e.g. formatting/images in the description, or giving sellers control over the background?
probabletrain on HN
Questions
How is VAT handled across countries?
From 2 comments
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…
Aillustrator on HNGreat 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…
ar0 on HN
How are KYC and money laundering handled?
From 2 comments
How do you deal with KYC / Money laundering practices?
Trigalti on HNCongratiolations! 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…
tomschwiha on HN
Alternatives named
Gumroad
From 2 comments
How does this differ from Gumroad?
fxtentacle on HNcongratulations on the launch! how does this compare to Gumroad?
velcro on HN
Paddle and Revin
From 2 comments
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…
mixedbit on HNthis is awesome. how is it different from paddle.com or getrevin.com? it looks like a merchant of record :)
deadcoder0904 on HN
Drop to sell
From 1 comment
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…
pabloem on HN