paid link to

You kidding me? You're a complainer in search of an issue, there's nothing wrong with this. "Buying things on the internet" obviously works already, in the form of patreon,…

This is a good idea. Very simple.

Awesome idea!

I'm surprised to see the concerns from other comments. Isn't this exactly how Gumroad started too right here on HN?

Right timing of launch if we consider Gumroad's price increament.

I like this idea but wouldn't it be really easy to bypass? Once you pay for it, I imagine you get redirected and can just share the final URL destination for free.

But couldn't people just share the link after the redirect?

That's exactly right. This service wouldn't be appropriate if you were trying to protect access to (for example) a full web application. It could be appropriate if you were…

The issue is I as a scammer can create a paid link to any arbitrary URL, including your URL. There's no verification of control like how say LetsEncrypt works. As a user I'm…

how will this be abuse proof? scenario: You share a link with me, earn $0.50, i notice people willing to pay for it. I then go on to create my own link once I have access to the…

goldmine for fake links? does it check ownership?

I'm not convinced this isn't a solution in search of a problem. What is it good for? For most things being sold you'll want an account attached. If this is a song or a book then…

Since it's something that already happens and it's a known issue, it's pretty ridiculous a brand new project doesn't have some mechanism in place to prevent it. Something as…

This is an amazing product & given that gumroad has recently increased prices, the timing could not have been better. But information architecture of the landing page needs to…

How does this handle chargebacks? What is to stop someone from putting in a bunch of stolen credit cards?

If someone hypothetically did a chargeback, who would have to pay the ~$15 dispute fee? You or the user that created the link?

Quick and blunt piece of advice: you need to redesign your website asap imo. It reminds me exactly of what a webpage looks like once the hosting has expired on it. Very low trust…

I think there was a link-shortener back in the day (when people used link-shorteners) that did this. The exact same way. I can't remember what happened to them... if they went…

Looks awesome, with just a few issues. One is that I don't see PayPal support. Typing credit card info into any site not owned by a billion dollar company is a bit scary.…

Hey I am wondering if paypal payment can be added later or is there an alter service using paypal gateway?

Would be useful to have an example paidlink so you can see what the UX is like for visitors.

God damn it. I really wanted to see what your paywall looked like but got hit with "hey signup. hey link your stripe". Show me an example.

I would use this if it had stable coin support like USDC. Please add something like that or just BTC. Also, that way we would not need to setup a stripe account.

I'd like to have this but for XMR payments.

Christ, this is genius. Why doesn't this already exist? I can already think of a bunch of use cases. You should definitely work on getting an API together. I could see people…

so OK. How do I, the publisher, get my money? A FAQ would be nice.

Anyone able to comment on what fees they’re charging and onboarding process? So far for the onboarding process I have: - signup by giving email and password; does not appear to…

This is an amazing product & given that gumroad has recently increased prices, the timing could not have been better. But information architecture of the landing page needs to…

If someone hypothetically did a chargeback, who would have to pay the ~$15 dispute fee? You or the user that created the link?

How does this handle chargebacks? What is to stop someone from putting in a bunch of stolen credit cards?

It would be a plus if paidlink.to actually made a call to the link before accepting payment, and put up a warning / stopped the transaction if it didn't get a 200, "We're sorry…

goldmine for fake links? does it check ownership?

Cool idea, but it'd be great to add an explanation for choosing this over Stripe payment links (https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links). For Stripe, you can configure a…

I'm surprised to see the concerns from other comments. Isn't this exactly how Gumroad started too right here on HN?

This is an amazing product & given that gumroad has recently increased prices, the timing could not have been better. But information architecture of the landing page needs to…

If you want this functionality on a WordPress-powered site, which is one of the use cases stated, this is the industry standard way of doing this within the WP world:…

This is absolutely nothing new. Adfly (adf.ly) was the popular version of this 10 years ago. Often modders would put their mediafire links behind adfly to get a little revenue.

So this is like AdFly?

I created a similar service to this called Monetized.Link https://www.monetized.link/ ...We describe it as if you put together a tiny url and a paywall. From what I've seen…