[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Best way to sell $1 digital product?
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       Ask HN: Best way to sell $1 digital product?
        
       Hello HN,  What would be the best platform / approach to sell a
       digital product (download) for $1?  It seems Stripe would be
       overkill, considering the CC fees, is there anything else?  The
       less dev friction (custom deployment), the better
        
       Author : wellthisisgreat
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-02-28 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | thedangler wrote:
       | How many do you plan on selling? Only way to avoid high
       | processing fees is to get a merchant account and use product
       | links from a virtual terminal that supports it.
       | 
       | I can help with that but might not be worth it if you are not
       | making more than $500/m
        
       | illnewsthat wrote:
       | I think Paypal's micropayment option[1] doesn't have a ton of
       | competition, but at 4.99% + 9 cents you will do a lot better than
       | typical stripe rate.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees
        
       | Hammerhead12321 wrote:
       | Is there any reason there is not a popular micropayments solution
       | i.e. <= $1?
       | 
       | It seems like there's plenty of use cases but I'm not aware of
       | any popular platforms that make it feasible with their fees. I
       | assume there are a bunch of costs associated with processing
       | those cc payments but surely they aren't large enough to make in
       | infeasible to process small payments.
        
         | input_sh wrote:
         | At least a part of the answer is that your service would end up
         | being used to test stolen credit cards.
        
         | outcoldman wrote:
         | As a developer that is the worst price model to be in. If you
         | don't use a stores like Apple Store. The issue is state taxes.
         | Some states require to file taxes when you reach N amount of
         | sold good in USD. But some actually for number of transactions.
         | Like 100-1000. So imagine if you sold 100 for $100 now you have
         | to spend all of those money to figure out taxes situation in
         | that state.
        
       | 65 wrote:
       | https://shoppy.gg/
       | 
       | I have used it to sell various random products, mostly in the
       | $5-$50 range.
        
       | peter-m80 wrote:
       | Ko-fi
        
       | kccqzy wrote:
       | The Apple App Store or Google Play store. Fixed 30C/ fees.
        
       | babalulu wrote:
       | Gumroad might work for you. They take a flat 10% fee.
        
       | kulor wrote:
       | Not used it myself but https://gumroad.com springs to mind
        
       | pronouncedjerry wrote:
       | https://gumroad.com/
        
       | brudgers wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
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