Comment by 🚀 clseibold

It won't just work for paywalled content, it would also allow donations to software, or even shareware programs, etc. Expanding it beyond programs is cool too. My only concern is if you plan on using stripe, which probably requires a redirect to their stripe page, or if you'll store credit card info in your own DB (which I would not prefer, myself).

Sep 09 · 3 months ago

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1 Later Comment

@clseibold . I've implemented stripe in the web version but the idea was always to support multiple payment options and give the user the ability of doing payments with privacy in mind.

Currently, the web version doesn't even require a login, but still uses stripe and requires the email to send a download link.

I think an option is supporting some cryptocurrency payments will work as an alternative to give credit card info to stripe but I would still require an email to send keys and download links. (Or a store account...)

Original Post

I am toying with the idea of creating a software store in gemini. (pay and download binaries kind of workflow) My idea is to port what I have here: to a text based experience. I think it is possible. I believe it would be the first of its kind as well.