Gumroad | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
Gumroad is an e-commerce platform that enables creatives such as writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers...
Gumroad is an e-commerce platform that enables creatives such as writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers to sell digital products and physical merchandise directly to their audience. It provides tools for creating custom landing pages, tracking sales, processing payments, and interacting with customers.
Website
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Size
11-50 employees
Industry
Consumer Services
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🛍️ Gumroad Product and Pricing News
- Gumroad's MacWhisper Pro now supports additional AI models including Groq, Ollama, and Azure AI, and offers cloud transcriptions through OpenAI and Groq.
- Gumroad has updated its product offerings, including new grid system tools for Adobe InDesign and a text trimming script by Rasmus Svane priced at €75.
- Gumroad has added new products including 'THE PANASONIC LX100 FILMMAKING GUIDE' by Filmkit and 'VIDEOMAKING PACK #1' by Michele Videomaker.
- Gumroad has added new products including 'RELIQUIAS DE ESTOICOS: CONVIÉRTETE EN LA MEJOR VERSIÓN DE TI MISMO' and 'THE ART OF WAR (FOR COMPETITIVE POKÉMON PLAYERS)'.
- Gumroad has added a new product category 'PREPARING FOR A NEW PUPPY: PET CARE PLANNER 🐾' by 'Your Notion Creator' priced at $7+.
- Gumroad has added new products including 'JINGSKETCH PROCREATE BRUSHES: COMPLETE COLLECTION V2.2' and 'CHARACTER & SHAPE DESIGN TIPS AND TRICKS (BRUSH INCLUDED)'.
- Gumroad has updated its product offerings to include new apps, grid systems, and wishlists, with notable changes in pricing and product details.
- Gumroad has added new product categories including pitch deck and t-shirt to its Entertainment Design section.
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⚔️ Gumroad Alternatives and Competitors
- Patreon |
- Shopify |
- Etsy |
- Skillshare |
- Teachable |
- WooCommerce |
- WishList Member |
- Sellfy |
- Mighty Networks |
- Podia |
- SendOwl |
- Payhip |
- SamCart |
- ThriveCart |
- Big Cartel |
- Ecwid |
- Square Online |
- MemberPress |
- Easy Digital Downloads |
- WP Simple Pay |
- kemono.su |
- ripper.store |
- ko-fi.com |
- notion.so |
- adobe.com |
- twitter.com |
- sahillavingia.com
💼 Gumroad Hiring and Layoffs
- Gumroad's CEO Sahil Lavingia is considering hiring a recruiter to find new talent.
- Gumroad operates asynchronously with no scheduled meetings, even with an office where only 3 out of 30 employees work.
- Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, announced that 80% of their customer support team has shipped PRs to production and 40% have designed new features in Figma.
- Avantika Dube has joined Gumroad as a Graphic Designer in India, previously working in the same role at another company.
- Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, announced that the company has not had layoffs since September 2022 due to increased productivity from AI.
- Gumroad is hiring half-time product designers and software engineers in NYC, offering $229K per year plus benefits.
🤖 Gumroad Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Gumroad is considering switching its front-end framework from Vue to React/Next.js, according to CEO Sahil Lavingia.
- Gumroad announced a partnership with Shoppietra to help users sell physical goods.
- Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, offers a solution to reduce Elastic Transcoder costs by 80%.
- Gumroad uses Claude AI to ship features 4x faster and empower non-technical staff to contribute to product improvements.
- Cosplayer Takumi Kei is using Gumroad to sell exclusive photos.
- Gumroad's customer support team has recently started using Figma and opening GitHub PRs.
- Gumroad's customer support team started shipping features using Cursor, Tailwind, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, according to CEO Sahil Lavingia.
- Gumroad is being used by the artist saeph. to sell sample packs.
📈 Gumroad Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Gumroad's MacWhisper has increased its ratings from 1428 to 1444 and sales from 132,261 to 134,725.
- Gumroad generates $350,000 per month by simplifying e-commerce for digital creators.
- As of 2024-08-28, the top Gumroad store is Sam Hyde's, generating between 1M-10M in revenue.
- Tyler Tringas, an advisor from Calm Company Fund, conducted a deep dive into Gumroad's valuation, revealing the company moved from a $1m loss in 2022 to an $8.9m net profit in 2023 and issued a $5m dividend.
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