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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 2 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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sahillavingia ◴[07 Feb 19 16:33 UTC] No.19106256[source]▶
Hey, #1 on Hacker News! I don't think that's happened since...I launched Gumroad back in 2011:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

Thanks HN for being a part of my journey!

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neya ◴[07 Feb 19 19:46 UTC] No.19107900[source]▶
Hi Sahil, Thanks for sharing the amazing story. I was wondering, since Gumroad's announcement about 2-3 years ago [1], is the plan to open source Gumroad still on track?

Thank you.

[1] https://twitter.com/gumroad/status/811650470758359040

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1. Dumbdo ◴[07 Feb 19 19:53 UTC] No.19107949[source]▶
From the the article in OP:

> Soon, we will also open-source the whole product, WordPress-style. Anyone will be able to deploy their own version of Gumroad, make the changes they want, and sell the content they want, without us being the middle-man.

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2. neya ◴[07 Feb 19 21:13 UTC] No.19108655[source]▶
I missed that totally, thanks!