Along the way hes also sharing some nice tips on how is implementing the features. The most interesting teenager in silicon valley business insider. Sahil lavingia, 19yearold founder and ceo of gumroad sahil lavingia may not have his drivers permit or be old enough to buy a beer, but the 19yearold founder and ceo of gumroad, a new. Sahil lavingia ceo of gumroad joins meggie palmer from peptalkher to discuss how to make a living as a creator. They both seem to be at least partly associated with various store apps. From tips for running a business, to pitfalls to avoid, rbusiness teaches you the smart moves and helps you dodge the foolish. See traffic statistics for more information hosted on ip address 184. Kids build great things, reflects sahil lavingia about his impressive resume. You almost need to be inexperienced and ignorant to be successful. One of the iphone apps i made was on the home page of apple. And so i started making iphone apps and i was pretty successful at that. Gumroad launches an iphone app with which users can access their digital content.
Meet the youngest tech millionaires prev next a ll of 19, sahil lavingia is the ceo of gumroad, an online payments company he started, works in his home which doubles as his office in the. I thought gumroad would become a billiondollar company, with hundreds of employees. I was an adult, he said, so i decided i was going to get serious about my career. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. You almost need to be inexperienced and ignorant to. Reflecting on my failure to make gumroad a billiondollar. Neeraj sharma and sahil sharma, who were witnesses in the. I had this need, i wanted to be able to track relatively arbitrary data points in my life. Founder and ceo sahil lavingia told me that the company has largely focused on the creatorside experience, but hes come to realize that. Pinterest found him from these iphone projects and asked him to help them build an iphone app.
Interview with sahil lavingia ceo of gumroad on failing to. Photo editing software windows 10 microsoft community. We spoke with gumroad founder and chief executive sahil lavingia. Lavingia designed the virtual pinboard that is also the. Whats more fun writing an english essay or an iphone app. I let the applications and windows handle them completely. Although lavingia claimed i dont think five years ago this could have existed, there were companies like payloadz, ejunkie, and tradebit already doing it since 2004. So he hacked it together over the weekend and launched it on hacker news that monday. Lavingia founded gumroad, which is designed to help people share and sell their creations directly to their social network followers. Youngest indian ceo in us shares his amazing story.
It was due to these cravings of his to come up with something better than the existing that gave birth to dayta, an iphone app. If you uninstall an application the file will be cleaned up along with the app, same with appinstaller. Specifically, what if facebook decides to apply resources to construct a. Today he lives in tiny provo, utah, spends much of his time learning to write and oil paint, and runs gumroad as an indie business with the goal of making. His products include dayta, thats a dayta tracking application for iphone, and remember, which is a notaking web app that doesnt require registration. He started selling iphone apps at the age of 14 and. He enjoys making useful stuff for fun and profit, but mostly for fun.
Every day, sahil lavingia and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on medium. Sahil s success cannot be just boxed as inspirational. It innovatively connects you to your existing network. Developer sahil lavingia is working on building a complete iphone application in one week. This week i talk with sahil lavingia, founder of gumroad.
Hes behind dayta and color stream for iphone, and his latest project is lets crate. At 19, sahil lavingia has already designed scores of apps and worked at one of the hottest startups in the worldbut hes only getting started. Reflecting on my failure to build a billiondollar company. Sahil lavingia founded the company in 2011 with the intention of making selling as easy as social sharing. Sahil lavingia optimistically tweeted that gumroad was going to be a billiondollar business, in preparation for a future new york times article. Going from a twenty person company to a five person company to a singleperson company. From aspiring billionaire to indie hacker with sahil. Sahil lavingia creator of dayta and color stream apps. The easiest way to listen to podcasts on your iphone, ipad, android, pc, smart. Sahil lavingia had already created dozen of apps by the age 16, says ritu jha. How to make a living as a creator with sahil lavingia of. Created by sahil lavingia, the developer of colorstream a beautiful color tool for the iphone, twizzle is a newlylaunched free iphone twitter client that enables iphone ipod touch users to tweet using the apple gadgets. Dayta was an app for the iphone that i built over the course of a week, actually. Gumroad is an online platform that enables creators to sell products directly to consumers.
According to sahil, the problem that i saw was that there were all these different apps in the app store that would be water counter or push up counter. Sahil shares the story of how gumroad was created, expands on the challenges faced, he even shares his monthly salary and. I learned iphone development in three weeks from stanfords free cs193p course on itunes university with no prior coding experience. Ive invited sahil lavingia, a college student who keeps launching apps and websites. Sahil lavingia is an 18yearold usc student soon to be living in san francisco. Gumroad sells all things digital and its model aims to convert social networks such as twitter and facebook into marketplaces. Gumroad, the kleiner perkinsbacked startup that allows creators to sell digital goods, is launching its first iphone app today. A new way to sell stuff to your friends no, its not amway. See what kind of products sahil lavingia gumroad likes on product hunt. Connect with this designer on dribbble, the best place for designers to gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs worldwide. Gumroad is a platform that allows content producers of all kinds to quickly and easily sell to their audiences. Sahil lavingia on founding gumroad and the future of paid content. Dribbble about help contact careers terms guidelines privacy playoffs shop testimonials media kit advertise api apps places.
Learn to code in one month how sahil lavingia gumroad ceo. Sahil lavingia latest breaking news, pictures, videos, and special reports from the economic times. I invited him to talk about we can launching so many products while other people just talk about launching one. Sahil lavingia is the founder and ceo of, a sensational online portal that democratizes the ability to sell stuff online with no setup or withdrawal fees. Meet the youngest tech millionaires rediff getahead. I searched my computer and appconnector shows up in lots of places. Things like, what time i woke up, how many hours of sleep i got, how many pushups i did in the morning, how many minutes i meditated. Sahil shares the story of how gumroad was created, expands on the challenges faced, he even shares his monthly salary and how much money some creators are making. In todays episode, matt talks with sahil lavingia, ceo of gumroad. Powered by gumroad sahil lavingia founder and ceo of gumroad subscribe follow me for a monthly update about gumroad or other things about my life. If you missed it, we recently announced spec, a new podcast network for designers and developers. When sahil lavingia turned 18, he came to an important conclusion.
It sounds like the premise for a new reality show a developer writes an iphone app in one week while the world watches. Et android app et iphone app et ipad app et wealth android app et blackberry app et markets android app et. We chat about building an audience online, the challenges of being a designer, engineer and founder, and what the hiring process looks like at gumroad. It is only for singapore which means everything is very specific. Today we caught up with sahil lavingia, the founder and ceo at gumroad. When he was 19, a computer science student, he dropped off the university of southern. Sahil lavingia reflecting on my failure to build a. Gumroad launches an iphone app with which users can access. Sahil lavingia is the founder and ceo of gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell products directly to consumers. The story of starting gumroad, raising money, and getting featured in the media. Now, it may look like i am in an enviable position, running a profitable, growing, lowmaintenance software business serving adoring customers. You can find similar websites and websites using the same design template has an. Thats exactly what sahil lavingia is planning to do starting on sunday.
View sahil lavingias profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional. Download from the app store or text yourself a link to the app. The iphone it was like a third world country, you know. Sahil lavingia published the first chapter of his planned book. The effort started from sunday and so far seems to be going to be at a nice pace. Gumroad founder builds products to scale himself, leave. Building businesses may be arguably more rewarding, but its. Sahil lavingia blogs, comments and archive news on. There are several benefits to the make apps not businesses methodology. It lets you do a bunch of cool stuff involving taxis. In this episode, sahil lavingia tells us how he learned python, build gumroad. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. For example, if you see a trend that makes no sense to you, you can press the icon.
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