Hackernews posts about Gumroad

Gumroad is a digital marketplace that enables creators to sell e-books, courses, and other digital products directly to customers.

1. Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students (github.com)
   108 points by CorRupT9 21 days ago | 46 comments
2. Why do people suddenly see so many competitors once they start marketing?
   5 points by xnslx 16 days ago | discuss
3. Ask HN: Which payment processor/merchant-of-record do you use in 2026?
   4 points by moonlighter 6 days ago | discuss
4. Show HN: LimitBar, a macOS menu bar app showing your Claude usage limits (mikaweiss6.gumroad.com)
   2 points by MikaW 3 days ago | 2 comments
5. Show HN: I wrote a Rust book ending with a Redis clone (shankhan3.gumroad.com)
   14 points by zeeshanali0094 5 days ago | 8 comments
6. Show HN: I let an AI C-suite run my company – starter kit from the inside (thepromptnova.gumroad.com)
   3 points by clarezoe 26 days ago | discuss
7. The Agent-Buyer Thesis – What Happens When AI Agents Are the Buyers (agentbuyer.gumroad.com)
   2 points by P_Economics 13 days ago | 1 comments
8. Show HN: I wrote a Rust book ending with a Redis clone (shankhan3.gumroad.com)
   2 points by zeeshanali0094 17 days ago | discuss
9. How HN: Nova BRAIN – STIG scanning and POA&M automation dashboard (dawitone.gumroad.com)
   2 points by Butulove 20 days ago | discuss
10. Show HN: 1000 C++ problems, every solution compiled and tested on g++ (hatemwave.gumroad.com)
    2 points by HatemDabet 22 days ago | discuss
11. Show HN: My little Mac applet that keeps your agents going with your lid closed (transitivedev.gumroad.com)
    2 points by d0ublespeak 28 days ago | discuss
12. Show HN: I replaced my $500/mo legal SaaS with an AI-generated toolkit (maxiporonga.gumroad.com)
    1 points by promptalex53 3 days ago | discuss
13. Show HN: LAN Scout – Local network scanner with traffic monitor and honeypot (enthrall0.gumroad.com)
    1 points by enthrall05 10 days ago | discuss
14. A self-hosted auditor that tells you if your portfolio thesis still holds (daniwave313.gumroad.com)
    1 points by dgomloz 14 days ago | discuss
15. Gumroad’s source is available (github.com)
    486 points by philipjoubert over 1 year ago | 205 comments
16. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx (htmx.org)
    440 points by rmason almost 2 years ago | 212 comments
17. Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play (tedium.co)
    210 points by pier25 over 1 year ago | 87 comments
18. Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source (danb.me)
    122 points by ssddanbrown over 1 year ago | 50 comments
19. Gumroad CEO is no longer hiring junior/mid-level software engineers due to AI (twitter.com)
    42 points by colesantiago over 1 year ago | 64 comments
20. Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx (htmx.org)
    27 points by ksbrooksjr almost 2 years ago | 3 comments
21. I used autoresearch to fix Gumroad's flaky tests in a week (gianfrancopiana.com)
    9 points by gianfrancopiana 3 months ago | discuss
22. After 14 years, I'm stepping down as CEO of Gumroad (twitter.com)
    9 points by sahillavingia 8 months ago | discuss
23. Gumroad to Migrate from Ruby on Rails to TypeScript and React (twitter.com)
    7 points by tosh almost 2 years ago | 11 comments
24. Ask HN: Gumroad suspended my account, blocked my payout, and stopped responding
    6 points by ClipNoteBook 3 months ago | 2 comments
25. Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad's founder has a second job with the VA (www.fastcompany.com)
    5 points by pulisse about 1 year ago | 2 comments
26. Gumroad CEO's playbook to 40x his team's productivity with v0, Cursor, and Devin [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by mooreds about 1 year ago | 1 comments
27. Gumroad, where is my money? (carlosbecker.com)
    5 points by caarlos0 over 1 year ago | discuss
28. Gumroad says its flat fee is 10%, but I doubt that (neat-corn-3f8.notion.site)
    4 points by INCHMAN1900 over 1 year ago | 3 comments
29. I used autoresearch to fix Gumroad's flaky tests in a week (twitter.com)
    4 points by sahillavingia 3 months ago | discuss
30. Bumps in the Gumroad (oddevan.com)
    4 points by handfuloflight over 1 year ago | discuss
31. Why most Gumroad alternatives fail (www.uselint.com)
    3 points by bopoku579 6 months ago | 3 comments
32. I built a alternative market I fixed what Gumroad coudnt do (buyandsell.market)
    3 points by Zophos about 2 months ago | discuss
33. Gumroad is now MIT licensed (twitter.com)
    3 points by h3nill about 1 year ago | discuss
34. Bumps in the Gumroad (oddevan.com)
    3 points by oddevan over 1 year ago | discuss
35. The $2M/month lesson every SaaS founder should steal from Gumroad (marketingcrafted.com)
    2 points by mellisacodes 5 months ago | 2 comments
36. Gianfranco used autoresearch to fix Gumroad's flaky tests in a week (twitter.com)
    2 points by amberj 3 months ago | 1 comments
37. Gumroad Is Open Source (gumroad.gumroad.com)
    2 points by funOtter over 1 year ago | 1 comments
38. Gumroad: No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees (sahillavingia.com)
    2 points by noname120 over 1 year ago | discuss
39. Gumroad is going to be open-source (twitter.com)
    2 points by h3nill over 1 year ago | discuss
40. What happened to Gumroad help docs?
    2 points by grodriguez100 over 1 year ago | discuss
41. My experience as a premium course creator on Udemy and Gumroad (old.reddit.com)
    2 points by thunderbong almost 2 years ago | discuss
42. What I learned from dogfooding a fair-source Gumroad alternative (app.happybase.co)
    1 points by mooreds almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
43. Show HN: I made an OSS dashboard to track your Stripe, RevenueCat, Gumroad data (ohmydashboard.com)
    1 points by guivr 5 months ago | 1 comments
44. 60k Digital Product Ideas for 2025 (Etsy, Amazon, Gumroad) (www.amazon.com)
    1 points by Digitalgoldmine over 1 year ago | 1 comments