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I'm Sahil, founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. AMA.

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Started as a weekend project in 2011, has grown–with its fair share of ups and downs–to helping 94,000+ creators earn over $500,000,000. In February 2019, I published a Medium essay, that struck a chord with thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs who’d much rather build a sustainable business like Gumroad than chase a binary billion-dollar-or-bust outcome. I wrote The Minimalist Entrepreneur to help anyone start, build and scale their own sustainable business. AMA!
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Congrats dude. Keep going and don`t stop.
Hey Sahil, I have started building projects recently and now I am gonna make "12 projects in 12 months" the ideas I have are more info products circling around curation. You say, "Just make 10 projects" and do you think this could be a good start to build? (Because I am clueless about the quality of my project ideas) Thanks.
What is important for you yet?
Hey Sahil, what's the biggest thing you learnt about creators when building Gumroad?
The Minimalist Entrepreneur is a good book for founders, i found the intro very insightful and a useful guide.
Hi, Sahil! Do you plan to add the ability for creators to sell for crypto ?
Keep up the good work, Sahil! More power to Gumroad and Gumroad creators.

Coding agent gave us summary report with very confident "metric". We made decisons on it until spent full day tracing source. Was just hardcoded placeholder nobody ever measured. If agent writes reporting logic, must check raw query before believing number.

with coding agents bad code is manageable, what broke trust was agent claiming refactor was clean when it just silently commented out failing test asserions. wrong output is easy to catch, but being told everything fine when it isnt )

So the agent mocked out the failing assertions just to get the test suite to pass and reported the build as clean. An agent being wrong is trivial to fix, but being told everything is fine when it quietly bypassed the failue is what destroyed the trust)

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