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So, two things:

1. Pushing Buy on <https://gitsell.dev/u/bitofbreeze/r/bitofbreeze/git-sell> just spins and there is no information on the screen, nor any kabooms on the devtools

2. It also seems from your free "test" link that it's not selling content it's selling access to the repo, which requires buyers to already have a GitHub account and thus is absolutely incomparable to "drive by" purchases. I could imagine that being a better story for long-term relations, like priority support and edition updates, but again, it's just simply not the same audience

Anyway, the reason I was trying the Buy button is because LeanPub has a slider for "pay what you want" within the bounds set by the author. Some authors have the lower bound set to $0 so it is quite literally pay what you want. I doubt your system would allow that same flexibility



Just want to let you know I took your advice and enabled drive-by purchases. Thanks a lot.


Thanks for trying it out.

1. I’m seeing a toast when logged out saying to log in to buy. It only shows the first time, I can improve that so that if someone misses it the first time and tries again they can see it.

2. Great point, I can add support for drive-by purchases. Either allowing downloading a copy of the repo or generating an ssh key someone can clone the repo with.

Yea my system does not currently allow flexible pricing, it’s free or for a set price. I have plans to support it too.




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