The blog
Notes on selling digital subscriptions.
Playbooks, analytics deep-dives, and interviews with creators who ship. Written by the team, not outsourced.
Why we built Content Vault on top of Shopify checkout
Every digital platform we looked at had a custom checkout that broke native conversion optimization. We bet on the platform instead.
Seva Safris
Founder
Drip scheduling for creators who don't like cron
You shouldn't need to understand cron syntax to release a chapter every Monday. Here's how we made it human-friendly.
The math behind our new transaction-fee structure
We rethought how we charge at each plan tier and why the 0.50% Plus rate makes more sense than a flat per-transaction fee.
From Gumroad to Shopify: a migration diary
One operator moved 2,400 subscribers, 80 GB of files, and eight years of purchase history in a single weekend. Here's the log.
How three music producers turned sample packs into MRR
Monthly bundles, tier gating, and the discovery that subscribers churn half as often when content drops on a fixed calendar.
Watermarking PDFs without breaking the reading experience
Invisible stamps, visible stamps, and the rendering edge cases that tripped us up before we rewrote the stamper engine.
Pricing your subscription: the 1.5x rule that rarely fails
Charge 1.5x what you'd charge for a single item, release on a predictable cadence, and let compounding do the work.
What we changed after our first 500 merchants
Analytics that nobody used, settings that everybody asked about, and the one feature we nearly shipped that would have been a mistake.
The hidden cost of 'free' digital file storage
Bandwidth, egress fees, expiring CDN links, and why 'unlimited' is only free until it isn't. A plain-numbers breakdown.
Written by operators, not interns.
Monthly notes on subscription metrics, pricing experiments, and what's working for real Shopify merchants. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.