Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad
Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in. There have been many times in the past where I wanted to share a link - on Twitter or just through IM with a few friends - but did not want to go through the overhead of setting up a whole store.<p>So I built Gumroad. I coded/designed from 12PM -> 11PM on Saturday and 8AM -> 11PM on Sunday. There are still tons of features missing (I'm working on AJAX file uploading next!) but I think it's reached that - buzzword alert! - MVP stage where I want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing (I'm thinking about taking a 30% cut).<p>Here's an example Gumroad link: <a href="http://www.gumroad.com/l/hjbaod" rel="nofollow">http://www.gumroad.com/l/hjbaod</a> - I use Stripe for payments. Here are some screenshots I took while making it: <a href="http://letscrate.com/gumroad/gumroad-progress" rel="nofollow">http://letscrate.com/gumroad/gumroad-progress</a> - I didn't use Photoshop so no crazy time-lapses!<p>I think it has some potential. What do you guys think?