I feel like over the past week I’ve gotten a handle on how my application is going to be architected. I’ve still got a couple of reservations about other aspects of the application, one of those being how I am going to accept payments. Right off the bat I knew I wanted to be able to support subscriptions as that’s how my app will be funded. I knew Memberful had a really robust ecosystem where they handled subscriptions, payments, paywalled content, etc. It seemed like they were more geared towards WordPress users, and I didn’t have or need a wordpress blog.
The next route I went down was Paddle, I’d seen other developers use this for the sale of their apps and I thought it’d be a good fit, however they are ending support for their Windows SDK and the first iteration of my application is going to be on Windows. So that was a non-starter.
The service I’ve finally landed on is Gumroad. I’ve spent the last 24 hours playing around with the API and it seems like it might work, but not without it’s workarounds…
I’ll talk about that next time.
Later!
