I've been a fan of Seth Godin for years.
I remember seeing him speak in 2007. He was promoting his book "the dip".
Today, he launched a new community product called with the help of
@lmsqueezy
.
I never imagined back then, Seth would be using something
Gumroad aftermath #'s from the past 48 hours
• 100's of tweets, DM's
• 506 newly approved stores
• 749 support tickets (almost all replied to)
• 1,500+ new Twitter followers for
@lmsqueezy
Plus, this morning we've already completed plenty of successful Gumroad migrations.
Gumroad is increasing their fees to 10% (PayPal fees and currency exchange fees not included)
If you're on Gumroad we'll happily migrate you to
@lmsqueezy
for free.
🍋 Introducing Wedges — an open source design system & UI component library.
A growing collection of Figma + React components (aka Wedges) to help you build your next project faster.
The best part? It's completely free.
Sneak peek of the
@lmsqueezy
marketplace
🍋 600+ listings approved
🍋 2,000+ listings in-review
🍋 Launch date? Very, very soon
Oh, with the new "Juice Bar" you can earn a lot more than just a yellow Lambo 🙌
Our little startup
@lmsqueezy
grew by 40%+ again last month 🍋
To put that in perspective. We processed more payments in May, than the last 7 months COMBINED. 🚀
I thought I knew growing pains.
I thought I knew what PMF felt like.
This is a whole new level.
Damn Lemon Squeezy checkout is good
They either use Stripe or made it look exactly like Stripe but it has the whole content section on the left that must convert really well
Right now Stripe barely lets you add anything but some product name on the left side of their Checkout
🍋 Busy week for the
@lmsqueezy
team! We're currently reviewing 3,000+ listings
Our new marketplace will open a new sales channel for software companies, makers, creators, and more
Our hope is to create a destination for anyone looking for trusted digital products
🍋 Today is a special day
@lmsqueezy
🍋
Lemon Squeezy™ marketplace is almost here!
We just sent invites to 59,000+ merchants to submit their products.
The marketplace will have a new concept called the "Juice Bar". The more sales you make, the more juice you earn. Unlock
The built-in affiliates feature for
@lmsqueezy
looks 🤌
• Affiliate hub
• Cookie type/set/length
• Support for recurring commissions
• Payouts powered by Lemon Squeezy
• Set commissions per product & affiliate
Coming *very* soon but I promise it's worth the wait.
As excited as I am about the new
@lmsqueezy
marketplace — the team keeps shipping 🚢
Upcoming releases:
🍋 Weekly Wedges components
🍋 PayPal subscriptions (finally)
🍋 Tax-inclusive pricing
🍋 Partial refunds
🍋 Amazon Pay
🍋 2FA
+ loads of QoL improvements every week
It's wild to see your growth rate literally blowing off the charts while still being profitable 🍋🍋🍋
We're cooking up some stuff right now to make 2024 look the same
Did you notice an increase in conversions on
@lmsqueezy
this week?
We recently made changes to how our checkouts load, resulting in a 46% improvement in load speeds across all Lemon Squeezy checkouts.
The past 24 hours have been a bit of a blur after the Gumroad news broke
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that has unbiasedly promoted
@lmsqueezy
as their
#1
choice
Means the world to the whole team 🍋
Ok — now back to the support queue 😂
We just partnered with one of the fastest-growing payment companies with a simple mission: to build the fastest checkout experience on the web. So excited!
We're all about execution
@lmsqueezy
🚀
Here's a few things recently shipped (+ sneak peek of what's next)
🍋 Teams
🍋 Wall of love
🍋 About page (finally)
🍋 Framer 💛 Lemon Squeezy
🍋 Laravel 🤝 Lemon Squeezy package
Let's dive in 🤿
Next week, the last 4 months of work will go live.
We're launching email marketing.
It was a massive undertaking. Every detail is polished and it's just the start of what we have planned for email + e-commerce with
@lmsqueezy
.
As always,
@ormanclark
nailed the design.
One of the most powerful features of
@lmsqueezy
is hidden in plain sight. And it's completely free.
Recovering failed payments has never been this easy-peasy.
Let me explain. 👇
🎉 Shipped: Team accounts for
@lmsqueezy
Our latest dev cycles are centered around making everything easy-peasy for SaaS payments.
Up next:
🎯 Metered Billing
🎯 Customer Portal
🎯 Laravel + Lemon Squeezy package
November was big for
@lmsqueezy
60% MoM (was pacing at 20%+ before BF / CM)
🚀 Launched customization feature
🤝 Onboarded new team members
🎙️ Released lots of new content
🍋 Wedges up next
Finish 2023 strong & get ready for the new marketplace in 2024
It’s getting juicy
Annnnnnd... here's the MASSIVE announcement!
Months and months of blood, sweat, and tears — our affiliates platform is finally here.
Huge team effort all around. 🎉🍋
✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
The Lemon Squeezy affiliate platform is live!
Every Lemon Squeezy merchant can now create their very own affiliate program within minutes
Easy-peasy style
Keep reading to find out more about the affiliate platform and how you can get started:
↓
Been heads down on continually improving customer support
@lmsqueezy
The goal is simple - provide the best customer support with the emphasis on response times.
We will keep working to surprise and delight customers with how good our customer service experience is.
Solution
In 2024, I need to be louder about sales tax and selling digital products.
I see so many threads bashing fees, not realizing what actually goes into all of this.
I’m proud to say
@lmsqueezy
solves this.
Today I learned that
@stripe
charges £0.40 per API call to calculate taxes.
That is absurd. Taxes are absurd. Somebody please, for the love of all that is holy, fix this.
Today, we (
@lmsqueezy
) announced our official Javascript SDK! 🎉🍋
It's fun seeing things come to life in a matter of weeks.
We made a decision very early on that our developer experience (DX) was important to us.
✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
Customer Portals are live!
Your customers can now manage their subscriptions and payment methods, view payment history, and download their invoices from a convenient self-serve portal 😎
Easy-peasy billing management 🍋
Learn more:
@jenniferchou25
@lmsqueezy
Hey Jennifer, looks like the issue is you’re selling a $5 product
We will switch you to customer pricing + apply a credit to cover the fees that should have never happened (which we do for anyone selling products that are $10 or less)
Can you DM me your account email?
Quick update about "The World's Fastest Checkout"
📈 Over the past 13 hours, across 1,000's of checkouts, conversion rates on the new experience are up 117.59% 🤯
Will update on the speed increases as well shortly. We are still adding improvements but early results are juicy🍋
🍋 Make Lemonade Podcast 🍋
"Building the world's fastest checkout with Vercel."
Today, we chat with
@rauchg
, CEO of
@vercel
, about our upcoming partnership to build the world's fastest checkout.
Full video link below ↓
Tomorrow on the Make Lemonade pod — we have
@rauchg
(CEO of
@vercel
) joining us
We will chat about the power of open source, what's next for
#Vercel
, and building the worlds fastest checkout experience
Got any burning questions for him?
When I first started my podcast (Make Lemonade), I didn't care what it looked like. I just wanted to get started.
Don't be like me.🤣
Here's everything I bought to go from "washed out" to "I am glamor."
Also, shoutout for
@jmckinven
for the glow up. 🤩
Today we (
@lmsqueezy
) shipped our biggest release to date.
To celebrate we're giving away $250,000.
But...
• Why should you use Lemon Squeezy?
• Why not use Stripe?
• Why did you create another payment solution?
Here's why:
🍋 Beta access for the new
@lmsqueezy
affiliates feature just went live!
If things go well this week, we'll push it live for 1,000's of merchants next week. 🚀
Flattered to hear
@levelsio
refer to us like this and to be listed next to these companies
But this is a good reminder to never get complacent
We designed
@lmsqueezy
to be a company that lasts for decades, it’s on us to make sure we don’t fuck it up 🍋
Companies that are innovative startups now and we can hope stay fresh (but who am I kidding?):
- Cloudflare
- Postmark
- Discord
- Digital Ocean
- Lemon Squeezy
!remindme in 7 years
As a startup founder all you hope for is that "lucky break"
In most cases, you never find that magic bullet
Slow and steady is what wins the race
That has always been my experience in terms of success
That was the truth until last month happened
One of the coolest and likely the most underrated feature of our new affiliates features means a lot to us.
The tracking script is 100% cookie-less and privacy friendly. 🤓
Sounds simple but simple is not easy.
So many little goodies packed into a beautiful design.
The Make Lemonade podcast is back, and this time I've got a co-host 🍋
@jmckinven
and I released our first episode today.
The Great Gumroad Migration was the hot topic.
@tibo_maker
@lmsqueezy
Ok quick update. We just pushed a new reporting chart in the dashboard to reflect "Net revenue"
We think it's still valuable to see Gross Revenue so you can see the potential earnings if you put effort into reducing refunds.
@robwalling
It’s quite the head scratcher.
It’s made for one of the craziest mornings
@lmsqueezy
to say the least.
I’m just glad we were prepared with our Gumroad migration tool.
If you’re a founder and you haven’t already found a private group of other founders to be a part of, you are suffering unnecessarily.
Doubly true if you’re used to using Twitter as a support group, which stops working the second you have a team.
Find some people 🫂
I love
@framer
and it's exploding.
Plus, we have some amazing creators using
@lmsqueezy
to sell their Framer creations.
Here are a few of my favorite Framer tools, courses, and resources I found lately 👇
Our latest episode from the Make Lemonade podcast just went live with
@asmartbear
🐻
• 2x unicorn founder
• Raised $300M for WP Engine
• Decades of knowledge packed into 60 minutes
A long time fan and reader, this was a special one
Here's some of my favorite clips 👇
Heyo! 👋 I'm looking to
#hire
a full-stack software engineer. We play with modern tools and architecture like
#AWS
,
#Gatsby
, static site generators,
#React
,
#Serverless
, microservices, etc.
If you're interested or if you know anyone looking for a change, send me a message. ;)
An affiliate program feature is by far the biggest request we get for
@lmsqueezy
.
It's been it's a long time coming, but I can promise you it will be worth the wait.
As always
@ormanclark
knocking the UI out of the park.
🍋 Make Lemonade Podcast 🍋
"Launching while having a job and a young family"
In this episode, we speak with Aaron Francis about launching products with a great bar for quality while also maintaining a family life and a job.
Full video link below ↓
Major product releases are hard.
After a decade of building products — there's always something that doesn't go to plan.
Trying to remind myself that there's light at the end of this tunnel.
4M email subscribers = $29M a year 🤯
Would you spend $800,000 a month on paid ads to grow your newsletter?
That's exactly what
@MattPaulsonSD
and his team
@MarketBeatCom
are doing.
He breaks down exactly how he's done it on the Make Lemonade pod.
As a merchant of record (
@lmsqueezy
), we take the tax burden (and liability) for our merchants to sell globally.
Every month requires plenty of accounting effort to get all the calculations right.
Tbh, it's a nightmare.
But the worst part...
The entire Lemon Squeezy team are feeling massively appreciative today 😍
We've seen 10x growth in 6 months, and it's all because of you!
We're humbled to be on this journey with you 🤝
We've got big plans for the next 6 months — keep your eyes peeled 🚀
Currently in the "what is
#1
priority?" decision making phase.
With the latest influx of new accounts, you could argue so many things being
#1
.
Cut the noise, focus on staying consistent and keep shipping updates.
Two things.
⚡️It’s crazy to think
@theiconicapp
is 2 weeks away from its 1 year anniversary (more on that soon 🤫)
🍋 Today’s Iconic email was sent to 10k people using
@lmsqueezy
’s new email marketing feature!
Top 3 most underrated announcements today from
@stripe
sessions opening keynote.
1. Vault & Forward API
Opening the ecosystem up for more PSP’s to work within Stripe is extremely powerful for a lot reasons. E.g. full orchestration across payments
@lmsqueezy
team.
I have a bounty for you 😅
LemonSqueezy was by far the best SaaS product I discovered in 2023. It was so good that
@Dannysapio
and I teamed up to build
@FramerAuth
, and it's been a fantastic journey.
The only problem I have with the platform is that we cannot
Making $386,000 from a
@Figma
course —
@figmaacademy
I sit down with
@Ridderingand
and talk about how Ridd started, his James Bond house, success with , and much more.
Apple:
Spotify:
@_coleschafer
I’m sorry Cole. 😞
Would love to see if
@lmsqueezy
is a fit. I’m biased but we do it all.
Payments, taxes, email, and affiliates (soon). Plus free Gumroad migrations.
Let’s chat
The entire team is meeting today to "shape up" our next work cycle and re-prioritize our roadmap based on feedback.
Yes, we listen to every email, tweet, and slack message.
Our users are building Lemon Squeezy with us.
We're hiring customer support agents
@lmsqueezy
With so many new merchants onboarding — we need help. If you want to join a fast-growing team and company, apply here:
@tdinh_me
@lmsqueezy
Thanks for the feedback Tony. I agree, we need this to automatically adjust on our end.
I will say we are definitely transparent; that’s why you have the numbers.
Majority of our customers are very happy with the low fees. With that said, we are working on lowering things
Heyo! 👋
I launched a new podcast called Make Lemonade. 🍋
I know, I know, everyone has a podcast but I'm hoping to inspire other entrepreneurs to make money from their own lemonade stand.
Listen on Apple:
Listen on Spotify:
Didn't expect any of this, obviously.
I have a feeling this won't slow down this week either.
Luckily, we were prepared with our Gumroad migration tool.
A few quick Yo! Podcast announcements before the new year! 🎙
1/5 - I sold a kidney and bought the domain (also renews around $110/yr too) which now hosts the new podcast website.
It's a custom WP theme I built and TBH I love it.
If you know someone impacted by recent layoffs, we’re hiring more software engineers for
@lmsqueezy
()
I can confidently say we’ve reach product market fit and we can’t build fast enough
Which is a great problem to have
Proud and excited to announce that I’m joining Lemon Squeezy
@lmsqueezy
as Head of Developer Relations 🍋
I’ve been a customer since launch and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to join an amazing team building an amazing product and to help grow it in the developer community 🙌🏼
More companies should take pride in their craftsmanship.
Software ate the world.
No with AI, you can build faster than ever. Soon, you’ll be able to build the most complicated products in single day.
How do you differentiate your product?
I predict the art of craftsmanship
Call me crazy but I love doing support for
@lmsqueezy
.
I get to talk to so many exciting founders, companies, makers, designers, etc.
The learnings really help shape how we can be better as a company and influence our roadmap.
@laravelphp
🤝
@lmsqueezy
It's finally here!
We have launched the official Lemon Squeezy Laravel package.
Can't say thank you enough to
@driesvints
for maintaining this package.