The Kupkaike Blog

Exact profit margins calculated on $10, $25, $50, and $100 products across Etsy, Gumroad, and Payhip. At $25/sale: Gumroad nets $22.50, Etsy ~$20.85, Payhip $23.75. The gap widens significantly at scale.

Your Gumroad product page is your sales team. This is a 15-point checklist based on pages that actually convert — title formula, preview strategy, pricing psychology, and the social proof patterns that move buyers.

I tracked 100 Gumroad vs Sellfy vs Shopify sellers. At 100 sales/month, one platform costs $200 more. Nobody talks about why.

12 months selling on both. One paid 3x more. It was not the low-fee platform. Here is the real breakdown: royalties, traffic, and which scales faster.

Fees, traffic, control, payout speed: I sold the same product on all three. Here is which platform made the most money and why the answer surprised me.

Gumroad has built-in organic discovery. Etsy runs on search. I compared both: exact fees on $10-$100 products and which platform actually sent more buyers.

I tried both Notion templates and Etsy printables for 6 months. One earned 2x more with the same time investment. The reason surprised me.

Still profitable in 2026: 15 Notion templates that hit $3K/month on Gumroad, which niches are saturated, and the traffic source most sellers skip.

I made 6 Etsy products that got zero sales. Then I changed one thing about how I pick niches. Now I sell 3-4 per week.

47 niches tested. 44 failed. The 3 that generate consistent weekly sales all share one pattern: hyper-specific audiences, under-100-competitor niches, and products priced above $14. Real numbers, no fluff.