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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by jammygit on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:26PM (#19106685)
"inability to get enough people to know about it, and to understand how it would fit their needs?"

Just from visiting the landing page for gumroad.com, I wasn't clear about what the company did. Some questions that came to my mind:

By e-commerce, is it like shopify or like stripe? By audience-building software, is that SEO, marketing, or analytics?

Just writing the feedback I like to get from others. The features page answered most of my questions in general(I think its an online store platform for digital goods?).

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by amelius on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:33PM (#19106741)
> "inability to get enough people to know about it, and to understand how it would fit their needs?"

It's a bit ironic that one of the main features of the product is "audience building for creators".

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