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0 pointsNdymium5y ago0 comments

Sure and this is kind of what I do. I have a sole proprietorship and sell stickers and in the future some minor features on the site. Of course it has the overhead of setting up the business and all the accounting/tax stuff (unless you use a service for that which takes ~5 % of your revenue).

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virgilp5y ago

But can't you sell your digital artwork without setting up business? Seems better than stickers (also, no shipping!).

[*] Digital artwork = project logo in png format, free to use however they please. You can license the publicly-available logo with any minimally-restrictive license (e.g. CC-BY); this should still count that "you gave them additional rights, in exchange for payment".

notwhereyouare5y ago

tax reporting most likely

virgilp5y ago

I mean, yes you need to report revenues, but... do you need a company for that? Do e.g. all Finnish photographers on Shutterstock have a company, in order to receive payments?

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MaxBarraclough5y ago

Is it illegal if you sell an item/service/upgrade for a clearly absurd price?

The obvious workaround here is to paywall some tiny feature with choose-your-own-price, or perhaps offer something akin to Reddit Gold. I presume the law already thought of that?

rmc5y ago

Surely there's a difference between ”Buy this PNG file for €200” and “Buy it for €10,000,000”

wongarsu5y ago

Lots of brands sell things with prices only justifiable by the branding and associated prestige.

The authors tactic of paywalling things behind a "donation" seems legally much more dubious.

NdymiumOP5y ago

It wouldn't be a donation, it would be a premium account that has access to extra features. I just don't want those features to make the free users feel second class.

MKinley5y ago

Could you share a link to your project? I'm curious what it is.

NdymiumOP5y ago

I commented on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616644

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virgilp5y ago

But can't you sell your digital artwork without setting up business? Seems better than stickers (also, no shipping!).

notwhereyouare5y ago

tax reporting most likely

virgilp5y ago

I mean, yes you need to report revenues, but... do you need a company for that? Do e.g. all Finnish photographers on Shutterstock have a company, in order to receive payments?

1 more reply

MaxBarraclough5y ago

Is it illegal if you sell an item/service/upgrade for a clearly absurd price?

The obvious workaround here is to paywall some tiny feature with choose-your-own-price, or perhaps offer something akin to Reddit Gold. I presume the law already thought of that?

rmc5y ago

Surely there's a difference between ”Buy this PNG file for €200” and “Buy it for €10,000,000”

wongarsu5y ago

Lots of brands sell things with prices only justifiable by the branding and associated prestige.

The authors tactic of paywalling things behind a "donation" seems legally much more dubious.

NdymiumOP5y ago

It wouldn't be a donation, it would be a premium account that has access to extra features. I just don't want those features to make the free users feel second class.

MKinley5y ago

Could you share a link to your project? I'm curious what it is.

NdymiumOP5y ago

I commented on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616644

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