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I'm genuinely curious what Gumroad Creators are selling. Is it 95% porn revenue, with a veneer of ebooks and videos? Or is there actually a sizable market for other digital goods?

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All kinds of legitimate things are sold on Gumroad. I created BudgetSheet ( https://www.budgetsheet.net ), which I sell subscriptions to via Gumroad. It's ramping up slow, but this year it broke $1k ARR. My goal is to 3x that this year.

Income Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzatabooj5hocug/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Such an odd way to ask this question from my perspective. Though this could be because I am missing something. Is this product popular in that industry? Is there a reason you lead with porn?

I was wondering the same thing, because just yesterday I encountered a mention of Gumroad together with OnlyFans in a blog by a creator. Had that not happened I too would have found the parent comment odd.

Not porn, mostly, see https://gumroad.com/company

Here is a small sample of things of interest to an HN audience that you can buy with Gumroad:

https://gumroad.com/fullstack

https://gumroad.com/adamwathan

https://gumroad.com/traf

It's quite easy to go browse the site and see for yourself that there's a pretty wide variety of stuff on there.

In my particular niche (music production/sound design) a lot of indie creators sell Max for Live devices on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/discover?category=music&query=max%20for%...

I've seen some 3d printed items being sold (the blueprints)

I don't think gumroad allows adult content at all.

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