drewonstuff

Is this your site? It looks like mostly static markup. Is this supposed to be a blog or something? I recognize a few of the artists from Soundcloud...where is the music coming from?

agreed, very well written. I love when he talkes about the signs of procrastination (like what I'm doing right now).

Agreed. I have been thinking about the "what's it worth to store stuff question"...and I think, as someone who may store things for people, that $10 a box to fill up my 12-box closet might be worth it.

Access would probably not be 24hours....times to be listed on a "sellers" profile.

I've tried reaching Storably, no response yet.

Agreed, the person storing would need to probably know what's in the box. While this could be weird, if you want to store your stuff at someone elses house, you probably wouldn't mind them seeing what's in the box.

the question is, what is at the top of your list now?

Sorry if I didn't make it clear that Gumshow is in no way part of Gumroad. I also do not work for Gumroad.

I have just been trying to figure out a way to build products on top of Gumroad's great and super easy to use api: https://gumroad.com/api/authentication.

I am most definitely cheerleading for Gumroad since I think more people building markets, etc over their payments system will enable more users making money for themselves.

Update: Not everyone has a Twitter account with many followers, so marketplaces combined with other ways of getting old and new products to Gumroad could go viral.

I think there is not an answer to this question...yet. I built Gumshow.com a few months ago half-way expecting to update and re-brand the site for whatever niche really takes off on Gumroad. However, I don't think that this has happened yet. While our team here is going to give Gumshow a face lift and $7mil makes me feel good that Gumroad is sure to stay in the game, I'm just not sure where the explosive growth is going to come from. I think, as one commenter here said, paying some higher profile artists (musicians, etc.) to use the site could be a very effective marketing move. It's also possible that a niche market product (that uses the Gumroad API, like Gumshow) could get things really rolling.

just said they got cut off and were trying to get around it

Evidently, Pinterest took them down in 5 hours. http://www.facebook.com/groups/pinterestapi/ - read thread near the top

sure, there are some tangible differences and pivot is probably a strong word...I like focus instead.

I was just shocked by the timing. I mean, its sort of tongue and cheek, lots of ideas are similar all the time.

Shoptiques has a great thing going and ShopJoy will plow forward like it's supposed to.

I was actually just coming back to this post to re-consider that closing paragraph, it was a little dramatic. I should have pointed out that this idea has moved around quite a bit in 3 or 4 months, I'm certainly adept to change - this was related in the application as well. On my twitter page I just said "Shop Joy may have to pivot again".

thanks for clarifying, I edited-in that line in () mainly to qualify that I was sort of joking about the .me.tw. I now know it wasn't a joke.

I couldn't disagree more with that we should be treating .com as passe. While .me or whatever is "cool", the majority of the world still relates to .com's the most. I'm in Taiwan right now and the people here probably have no idea what a .me or a .it is. They are using .com.tw, not .me.tw (and yes, of course I understand that .me is from Montenegro and this would never be possible). And the "reminds me of 1999-2001" just sounds silly...it goes without saying that there have been thousands of successful .com's since 2001, like the one you are looking at right now.

You have to have faith that all this time wasting will go somewhere practical, at some point. I posted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3607718

If people can use this online time to figure out how to apply their skills to make money, they wouldn't be at their jobs browsing Facebook.

I wonder about this too. I just noticed that our idea fits RFS #2 pretty well. I wonder if #2 is played out? It's certainly not as general as RFS #9, and I assume many have given this one a shot. On the other hand, most of these RFSs could probably stand relevant for years to come with multiple and varying startups able to satisfy the request.