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Show HN: Sell anything directly to your customers with SendFlare

by sixpenrose16 on 3/19/15, 3:30 PM with 6 comments

  • by sixpenrose16 on 3/19/15, 3:48 PM

    I had this idea to build a community around the digital products people (including myself) sell without setting up the whole site. The shortened link with a payment system and social interactions (prior to downloading) would help with getting something in people's hand in no time while building up the interactions.

    So I built SendFlare. Easily create a challenge and let the user pay for the download or make social interaction prior to download. For example, you could setup to "Post a Tweet" challenge before downloading the product. Once the user tweets the message, he/she can download the file.

    Here is an example SendFlare link: https://sendflare.co/l/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland - You can accept payment or social interaction for the product. There are still many features are missing. I think there is a potential for this product. What do you guys think? (20% Coupon: HN2015)

  • by danieldreier on 3/19/15, 7:09 PM

    Design and loading "speed" - well, should be optimized! Regarding the idea itself: Where do you see a difference between SendFlare and i.e. paywithatweet.com or any other sort of those tools? I gave some of them a try during the last years and none of them had this "Wow!" effect - was more like a nice to have, but nothing I wanted to use every single day.

    Still: I believe that our social "statistics" will become part of payments 3.0 but none of the tools I know consider my exact data i.e. # of followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook just to name the most obvious ones.

  • by abluecloud on 3/19/15, 5:59 PM

    Not really commenting on the idea, but the consistency in the design is slightly annoying. Take your example, for example (https://sendflare.co/l/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland):

    - the fonts change constantly - the buttons differ - you have breaks in one tweet box, then no break in the other - the very top download link doesn't work & also doesn't have the correct cursor

    The homepage seems to be unnecessarily loading despite the fact I could briefly see the page before the "loader" appeared