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I tried to grep the code for `api.` to get a sense for all the vendors this codebase is using, and which you'd need to have relationships with to run the code. Here's what I found:

payments:

  https://api.paypal.com 
  https://api.stripe.com

tax stuff:

  https://api.taxjar.com
  https://api.vatstack.com (EU VAT)
  https://apiservices.iras.gov.sg

for iOS app (?):

  https://api.appstoreconnect.apple.com 
  https://api.storekit.itunes.apple

AI stuff:

  https://api.iffy.com  (AI content moderation)
  https://api.helper.ai (AI support)
  https://api.openai.com

other:

  https://api.easypost.com  (shipping labels?)
  https://api.sendgrid.com (email)
  https://api.pwnedpasswords.com (haveibeenpwned)
  https://api.worldbank.org (for purchasing power parity?)
  https://api.dropboxapi.com (for "upload from dropbox"?)

It launched right here on HN 14 years ago.

https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227/photo/1

I'm reading a lot of complaints here but let's recognize some interesting aspects that Sahil is talking about: 1. It's the 5th largest rails codebase open to AI ingestion. 2. They are offering bounties for issues. Not large bounties but whatever, it's something.

I personally like rails and would love to see AI tools improve with it. No idea if this code base will really help that, and when but it can't hurt. In my experience I can get next apps up in a jiffy but rails is much more of a struggle. If anyone has any tips here, please post.

I'm always curious about how well bounties work especially now in an AI age. I wonder what the arbitrage on AI spend vs. bounty will be for people that take a run at them.

Dear SHL , Please truly open source this. I personally wouldn't mind AGPL but would still much prefer MIT Thanks.

It's pretty cool that this license allows you to make up to $1mm revenue, at which point you can pivot and rebuild the stack. This is going to be a game changer for anybody who wants to MVP an app similar to Gumroad. MIT would be ideal, but I prefer this to GPL's force release model.

License is very limiting for Business

An ecommerce platform designed to allow creators to sell to users.. apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumroad

Any idea what the motivation could be?

It's Rails!

What is the use of this opensurce when you have a strict license ?

If someone create a new business on top of this by changing layout and URL routes, how are they able to identify that they used this source code?

I haven't followed Gumroad much, but I remember them being very pro freedom and having some interesting hiring practices. IIRC they were all being paid equally (based on position and hours of work) and had no meetings. Now I see a Code of Conduct.

Wow, I remember their offices next to Thee Parkside on 17th.

004_constants.rb: =====================

DENYLIST = %w[ ... ladygaga kanye kanyewest randyjackson mariahcarey atrak deadmau5 avicii prettylights justinbieber calvinharris katyperry rihanna shakira barackobama kimkardashian taylorswift taylorswift13 nickiminaj oprah jtimberlake theellenshow ellen selenagomez kaka ....].freeze

the who is who of pop culture

I looked for a blog post announcing this, and couldn't find it. But Antiwork's Github profile mentions:

  > Antiwork emerged from Gumroad's mission to automate repetitive tasks. In 2025, we're taking a bold step by open-sourcing our entire suite of tools that helped run and scale Gumroad. We believe in making powerful automation accessible to everyone.

That's pretty wild! I've always loved Gumroad's simplicity for creators and buyers. Now I guess people will have a pretty compelling option when searching "Gumroad open source alternative"

nice work, you forgot to remove your API key tho

bots.rb: =========

BOT_MAP = { "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; cs-CZ) AppleWebKit/526.9+ (KHTML, like Gecko) AdobeAIR/1.5.1" => "Adobe AIR runtime", "BinGet/1.00.A (http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/load/)" => "BinGet", "Chilkat/1.0.0 (+http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatHttpUA.asp)" => "Chilkat HTTP .NET", "curl/7.15.1 (x86_64-suse-linux) libcurl/7.15.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.0" => "cURL", ...

cool list

Could we please change the title to say : "Gumroad is source available"?

This license is clearly fails OSD and is not open source by the industry standard; perpetuating a false statement is unhelpful.

https://opensource.org/osd

I love how nothing in the readme tells me what it actually is.

I saw this title and thought "the Australian craigslist is open source?" Then I realized I was confusing Gumroad and Gumtree.

Time to train an "LLM" on it and have it reproduce the source code 1-to-1, so I can use it without a license!

is this the company where the CEO/ex CEO is trying to rejigger the VA?

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affa...

Related post:

https://danb.me/blog/gumroad-is-not-open-source/

What a joke of a license. This is not open source. Why the fuck is everyone in VC land trying to change the true definition of open source?

I don’t get the point on going open source aside from a tiny boost in marketing. What is the objective and proposition here? Considering as others have said is not really open source. If I were the founder I would not do that. It’s like if Airbnb went open source or something

The Readme goes right to how to install it, and other than the logo saying "sell your stuff, see what sticks" there is 0 information about what it does. Sure I can Google, but I think it should be right there, at the top of the Readme.