Creators selling digital products face a platform tax from Gumroad, Stan Store, or self-hosting. This article dissects the fee structures and autonomy tradeoffs, empowering creators to choose the platform that lets them keep the most profit
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Gumroad vs Stan vs Your Site: Maximizing Digital Product Creator Profits
Selling digital products online is supposedly the holy grail of passive income. You create it once, and it sells forever, right? Wrong. The biggest enemy to your bottom line isn't product creation; it's the platform tax. Understanding the brutal differences between Gumroad, Stan Store, and running your own site is the key to actually keeping the cash you earn.
Most creators blindly pick what's easy, then moan about the fees. Don't be
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