Interface looks nice and the innovation here is deep links into social networks.<p>Many of us have been selling digital files for a while. I originally came here to post how expensive 5% seemed, but after looking into it, it's not a bad deal at all.<p>Here's my setup:
<a href="http://www.bengarvey.com/2011/04/27/my-e-commerce-stack/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bengarvey.com/2011/04/27/my-e-commerce-stack/</a><p>My eproduct ( <a href="http://kidsdungeonadventure.com" rel="nofollow">http://kidsdungeonadventure.com</a> ) sells for $5.99 and I pay a flat $5/month for most of the functionality provided by Sellify. 5% of $5.99 is $0.2995. My break even point between the services is 16.7 sales per month. The other great thing about sellify is that with no other fees, you can safely run it alongside with whatever setup you currently have.<p>Overall, I am definitely better off with the flat rate, but the appeal of a no-cost plan is pretty enticing to newcomers.<p>Still, it's way better than Amazon, scribd, or other services I looked into a year ago. Glad to see some more competition in this space.
Incentivizing people via money discounts to share via social networks is in direct violation to their the terms of services. It's very obvious why they don't want this kind of spam and they all enforce this hard. They will be shut down.
Guys I from my experience I created <a href="http://indriks.com/io" rel="nofollow">http://indriks.com/io</a> in 2hours using sellfy. But of course you can use other tools such as shopify or whatever but that is more complicated.
Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have been selling digital files for years and years and years. Ever heard of Clickbank? No? Well that's because you're not doing enough research.<p>The moderately interesting part is the social aspect but considering how many times a person has to be exposed to a thing before they actually buy it, I doubt it will make that much of a difference.<p>If you're serious about selling digital goods, I'd really look into a different platform. You want something solid that's been around the block for a while, when you're talking about creating a new business based on it. You want more than a couple glossy social gimmicks.<p>(Note: I do NOT recommend ClickBank, for the skeeve factor. They are a totally legit, well-behaved business, but they LOOK too skeevy for YOUR customers to interact with. There are more modern, classy alternatives.)<p>FWIW I have sold probably around $200k of digital goods in my career so far. I know whereof I speak.
Sellfy provides a platform that is allowing for a further integration of digital content into the social networks. This is the future direction of publishing. Eventually, the models of distribution & access to information will be further changed from what we have currently known. Authors will be much more greatly empowered as will end users (the readers) who will have a greater access to information as the future is reshaped by entrepreneurs.