u/Old-Manager-1301

Hey everyone,

I'm considering selling my startup and wanted to see if there's interest from anyone looking to acquire an existing product.

It's an India-first creator marketplace that helps creators sell digital products, courses, and memberships with native UPI support.

Current traction:

• 1,500+ registered users
• 850+ creators onboarded
• ₹2.2L+ in creator sales processed
• Live production product with real customers
• Creator storefronts, digital products, courses, memberships, analytics, and secure file delivery
• Built by a solo founder

The platform has been running in production and has a solid technical foundation. I believe it has much more potential with someone who has stronger distribution, marketing, or an existing creator audience.

I'm exploring acquisition opportunities rather than shutting it down.

If you're an entrepreneur, SaaS founder, company, or investor looking to acquire an operating startup instead of building from scratch, feel free to send me a DM. Happy to share more details, metrics, and arrange a demo with serious buyers.

Thanks!

I'm a solo founder and engineering student.

About 6 months ago, I started building an Indian platform for creators to sell digital products, courses, memberships, and other digital content. Think of it as a creator marketplace focused on India.

The platform isn't huge, but it's real.

• 1,500+ users
• 850+ creators
• More than ₹2.2 lakh earned by creators through the platform

I'm proud of what I built.

The coding wasn't actually the difficult part.

The difficult part has been everything outside of software.

Every time I think I'm done, I discover another legal or compliance requirement.

• Company law
• GST
• Marketplace regulations
• Privacy policies
• Terms of Service
• Consumer protection
• Payment compliance
• Tax responsibilities
• Data protection

I even registered the company as a Private Limited because I thought that was the "right" thing to do. Looking back, it feels like I signed myself up for a never-ending list of obligations.

I don't mind working hard.

What I do mind is constantly feeling like I've missed some regulation that could come back to hurt me later.

I'm not afraid of writing code.

I'm afraid of unknowingly breaking a law because I couldn't afford a lawyer to review everything.

I'm genuinely considering shutting the company down, paying everyone what's owed, and moving on to building simpler SaaS products that don't involve handling creator payouts or operating a marketplace.

For founders who've built marketplaces, fintech products, or anything compliance-heavy:

• Did you ever feel this way?
• How did you deal with the legal side?
• Did you hire lawyers early, or were you just figuring it out as you went?
• If you were in my position, would you keep going or pivot to something with less regulatory overhead?

I'm looking for honest advice, especially from people who've actually been through this.

I noticed something interesting while running getvik (platform for Indian Creators) for digital products, memberships, courses.

Most people think creators need huge audiences to make sales.

Not true.

Some examples:

* A B Com to Big4 career guide has done 190+ sales. * An Excel practice workbook has done 60+ sales. * An AI growth playbook has done 417 sales.

None of these are huge creators.

The common pattern:

1. They solved one specific problem.
2. They priced it low enough to be an impulse buy.
3. They made the outcome obvious.

A lot of small creators are sitting on knowledge that people would happily pay ₹49–₹299 for.

I noticed something interesting while running getvik (platform for Indian Creators) for digital products, memberships, courses.

Most people think creators need huge audiences to make sales.

Not true.

Some examples:

• A B Com to Big4 career guide has done 190+ sales.
• An Excel practice workbook has done 60+ sales.
• An AI growth playbook has done 417 sales.

None of these are huge creators.

The common pattern:

1. They solved one specific problem.
2. They priced it low enough to be an impulse buy.
3. They made the outcome obvious.

A lot of small creators are sitting on knowledge that people would happily pay ₹49–₹299 for.

Best way to sell digital products in India without building your own website?

I kept noticing something weird.

A lot of small creators have audiences.

But they don't monetize.

People with 500 followers.
People running communities.
People making content consistently.
People teaching things.

Most never sell courses, memberships, ebooks, templates or digital products.

Not because their content is bad.

Usually because monetization feels complicated enough that they never start.

I got obsessed with this problem and ended up with getvik.

Big thing I learned:

Small creators don't have an audience problem.

They have a monetization problem.

Curious how others here started monetizing.

Been building a creator monetization product for Indian creators for a while.

When I started, I thought building the product would be the hard part.

Turns out getting distribution is much harder.

Current numbers so far:

• 1500+ users

• 700+ creators onboarded

• One creator crossed ₹1L+ GMV

Now the focus isn't "build more features."

It's more like:

• talk to creators manually until patterns appear

• turn creator wins into repeatable playbooks

• build referral loops instead of depending on constant outreach

• create more content around how creators actually make money

• keep doubling down on what already works

Feels like the game changes after the first few hundred users.

a few months ago i started building in the creator space because i felt selling digital products in india was still way more painful than it should be.

didn’t expect much from it honestly.

but now it’s at:

• 1500+ users
• 680+ creators
• ₹1.6L+ processed

and i’ve reached the point where i probably need a small core team around this to scale it properly.

mainly looking for people interested in:

• outreach
• engineering
• or honestly anyone who can add real value

can’t really offer big salaries right now since everything has been bootstrapped till now, so it would mostly be equity-based for people who genuinely want to build long term.

I originally built a platform for Indian creators to sell digital products in INR through UPI because most tools felt heavily western-focused.

At first the idea was simple:

make selling inside India easy.

But while watching creators use it, I noticed something interesting.

A creator would get sales from India through UPI… then randomly someone from the US, Germany or UAE would message:

“how do I pay?”

That’s when I realized Indian creators don’t just want local payment systems.

They want India-first infrastructure with global reach.

So I added PayPal alongside INR payments.

Almost instantly international orders started showing up!

Now the interesting part is watching small creators here slowly become global sellers without even thinking about it.

Also ended up shipping:

- courses

- memberships

- version control for digital products

Shopping features has never been better.

One thing that’s been interesting while building a Gumroad alternative for India is how fast creator needs evolve once they start actively selling.

Initially most people just wanted simple digital product delivery.

Then creators started asking for memberships/subscriptions, so we shipped that pretty quickly.

Now multiple creators are asking for built-in video playback so users can pay and watch content directly inside the platform instead of downloading files.

I honestly underestimated how many Indian creators want to build proper recurring businesses instead of just selling one-off PDFs or courses.

Around 4 months ago, I started building a Gumroad alternative focused on Indian creators because most existing platforms either felt too expensive, unsupported for INR payments, or not built for Indian audiences properly.

Initially I genuinely thought the hardest part would be building the product.

Turns out the harder part was convincing myself that Indian creators would actually buy digital products consistently.

This week one creator on the platform crossed ₹1L+ in sales with 388 orders in 7 days.

That was probably the first moment where things started feeling real.

What surprised me most is that the creator doesn’t even have some massive celebrity audience. Just a niche audience with trust.

Feels like India’s digital product space is still extremely early compared to global creator markets.