It's hard to tell how accurate the estimates are until some Gumroad seller confirm their numbers to me, but I think with the data I have this is a good guideline.
One surprising thing I found is that the median ratio is the same across all categories, I thought it would vary much more between different niches.
I have discovered other ideas like this but the lack of leverage makes it really hard to justify the squeeze
I don't think this is quite the same personally, since it seems to me more like Gumroad is just what OP picked initially for MVP, and could 'easily' (and with probably exponential value-add?) support more platforms later.
* Utilize the API to let a Gumroad seller import their actual Sales numbers, to help further refine your reviews to sales numbers.
* Connect with google to spot search trends that lead to Gumroad products
* Run some sort of AI analysis to help the seller understand their copy is failing them for SEO, etc.
Check out eRank, and look at their offerings, and you can get a lot of ideas on how to grow this product from $50 once to $10+/mo.
When you sign up, you connect your shop to your profile. After that, you can look for competitors and add them for comparisons.
If I were gumroad, I'd love these tools to be out there, it drives more people to their platform through more content. I doubt they'll get upset about this.
Tailwind is for styling.
Alpinejs is for sprinkling interactivity on the site.
Vite is probably the bundler for all the frontend stuff to minify, vendor etc
It shows what you made (a dataset of Gumroad products), why/to whom it matters (to spot market opportunities), and it implies how (dataset/scraping). Nice!
For example someone is charging $30/m to convert PDF bank statements to CSV, and someone a similar price to effectively static site generate off a Google Sheet. It is all in how you sell it I guess! These are not trivial products but they are not things you need a team to build.
My thought is to build quick, get in front of people and then iterate on that feedback. Instead of building stealth then finding no one wants it.
Well done on this launch!
I was tempted to build something like this off IH but felt that I am not adding much value since IH already spill the beans. Although maybe running an LLM over each idea to spit out a summary might be cool (maybe I will do that).
I have some other ideas along the idea of build X but sell the side effects, the problems solved along the way.
"Originally, I took pre-orders for my Trend Reports on Gumroad. But I received... exactly $0. So I changed tactics: I made half of my report free, and the other half paid. Today, 99% of Trends.VC revenue is recurring in the form of annual and quarterly subscriptions.” Dru Riley sells business insights and expertise"
That is quite some brush!
