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?

yeah, it's my site. Mostly suppose to be a blog/discovery tool. All of the music is from soundcloud.

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.

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.

> 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 respect you alot, but shouldn't that be something you just don't simply say, especially after raising that kind of money? Further, are you saying "nobody at Gumroad knows", or rather "hey, I don't know I am just an engineer/owner, but we are raising this money, some guys with other-than-tech skills will come aboard and they will know where we going".

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 don't think Gumshow.com is affiliated with Gumroad.com, it's just a site built on the public API.

I believe he is not affiliated with Gumroad, but just using their api.

ok sorry for confusion! I stand corrected!

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

That is a closed group

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

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".

I do not really see why you have to pivot away from your idea simply because a competitor launched with a similar idea. You have mentioned several differences between Shopjoy and Shoptiques in your post and if I were you I would focus on making those differences my strength, when compared to competitors.

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 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.

Actually .me.tw would be possible, just as there are .gov.tw etc. so .com in the .com.tw is not a top-level domain (.tw is), it is a 2nd level domain in this case. so there could be xyz.tw just like .co was originally exclusive to government of colombia and you could only get 2nd level domains, ex domain.com.co etc.

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 agree. A quick glance at the top 5,000 domains in terms of traffic more than demonstrates the sheer dominance of the .com brand for domains. It's beyond overwhelming.

There are very few relevant .me or .io (etc) domains. That will continue to be the case for years to come.

It's not Twitter.me or TwitPic.me or yfrog.me, it's not Tumblr.me, it's not Pinterest.me, it's not Groupon.me, it's not homeaway.me, it's not yelp.me. All the major success stories online will continue to be branded primarily through .com - and those that start out as .me or .io will move to .com as they can afford to purchase the prime domain.

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.