u/Sad_Steak_6813

After 10+ years of selling digital 3D products, I never expected this from a major marketplace. Today, Gumroad PERMANENTLY FORFEITED money from my balance without warning or justification, just because I updated my location from Canada to Bulgaria.

Their support confirmed my funds were "forfeited automatically" as a "system safeguard on a country change" that they "cannot reverse." You read that right: a simple account update now triggers the total seizure of your hard-earned money.

Before this, I had been trying to withdraw my funds for a long time. I attempted to use multiple bank details, including Ukrainian and Canadian, and all attempts were blocked. Now, my money is gone forever, and they have offered zero solutions.

This is predatory, illegal, and nothing short of theft. If a platform can arbitrarily seize your money because of a location change, it is NOT safe. Every creator on Gumroad needs to check their terms and understand that their funds are at risk.

So let me explain this correctly:

I earned the money by selling products.
I tried to withdraw it.
The withdrawals failed.
I changed my country of residence.

Gumroad's system then automatically took the remaining balance — and they refuse to return it.

There was no fraud, chargeback, or dispute involving this money. It was simply an unpaid seller balance.

This is not a “payout issue.” This is money that I earned and that Gumroad is refusing to give back because of an automated account-country rule.

What makes this especially disturbing is that their own support explicitly confirmed that the money was “forfeited.”

I am sharing this publicly because I want other creators and digital-product sellers to be aware of what can apparently happen to their earnings when changing their country/payment setup on Gumroad.

I've included my conversation with their support team so you can see the situation for yourself...

https://baselashraf81.github.io/photophane/

Drop a picture into the page, it works out the shape, you get an STL. Free and open source, runs in your browser, nothing gets uploaded. (Tune the parameters as required)

It's an optics solver, not AI. It computes the surface slope needed to bend light into your picture.

The picture is stored in the slope of the surface, not the thickness, so it stays invisible until light bends through it. The print will not look like your picture, it comes out as a blank sheet of smooth bumps, and that is the point. Opposite of a lithophane, which blocks light and comes out dim. This one bends light, so the bright parts end up brighter than the torch you point at it.

You only need a clear resin, flat face toward the light, small bright source like a phone torch or a spotlight, plate at the throw distance the page tells you, pale wall, dim room.

A real life example is this "Caustic Clock" by Mosivers, it projects a clock face on the wall. https://www.instructables.com/Caustic-Clock/

I don't own a printer myself, so I would love to see your results.

EDIT: Just a bit about my background, I am a computer engineer who just graduated, but I have always been into hardware and sensors as well, since I was 13-14. So if you have any other cool ideas about literally anything, and would like to see it in action, let me know in the comments. Open to ideas!

https://baselashraf81.github.io/photophane/

Drop a picture into the page, it works out the shape, you get an STL. Free and open source, runs in your browser, nothing gets uploaded. (Tune the parameters as required)

It's an optics solver, not AI. It computes the surface slope needed to bend light into your picture.

The picture is stored in the slope of the surface, not the thickness, so it stays invisible until light bends through it. The print will not look like your picture, it comes out as a blank sheet of smooth bumps, and that is the point. Opposite of a lithophane, which blocks light and comes out dim. This one bends light, so the bright parts end up brighter than the torch you point at it.

The whole thing depends on the material actually being clear and the flat back face staying flat. Layer lines scatter light in exactly the way that smears the projection, so resin is the best shot anyone has at this.

You only need a clear resin, flat face toward the light, small bright source like a phone torch or a spotlight, plate at the throw distance the page tells you, pale wall, dim room.

Someone already built one for real: Caustic Clock by mosivers, printed on a resin printer, projects a clock face on the wall. https://www.instructables.com/Caustic-Clock/

I am too broke to own a printer myself, so I am mainly posting here because I would love to see your results.

Inspired by DoodleChaos, I made this open source "tool" uses Demucs to separate your song into instruments and drive a physics scene.

You can see most features in the demo, like separating tracks and so on.

Been a fan of the style rather than basic signal processing visualizers. I couldn't find a better sub to post this in.

Still not perfect, working on improvements.

Not sure about colored lines vs black, I think black looks cleaner.

Contributions welcome, let me know what you think.

Public repo (for devs): https://github.com/BaselAshraf81/lineridervisualizer

Wanted to leave this here, This marks the first real collaboration between researchers and participants through Prolifictea.

I was really happy to see Joaquin responding to reviews on their page on prolifictea, and all of a sudden they showed up in the discord server too.

I think it really shows why I made prolifictea in the first place, and how beneficial it can be to participants, researchers and the overall integrity of the platform.

(The mods deleted the Post on the main sub, as usual, wish I could copy the comments here)

For some reason the number declines from 3 to 4 AM ET everyday.

EDIT: https://prolifictea.com (Forgot to add the link)

any idea what might it be?

I was not expecting prolifictea.com to take off this quickly. In just 11 days the website is already at 75% of the free hosting tier capacity, which means I will need to move to our own servers sooner than expected.

Our community is growing faster than I ever imagined and I am genuinely grateful for everyone who has supported this.

The growth means hosting costs are coming sooner than planned. If you have found the site useful, contributions help keep it free for everyone.

Thank you all!
Basel