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The biggest value an intermediary adds for more serious creators now is GDPR and EU tax compliance. Otherwise technically, accepting payments now is increasingly trivial with Stripe.
What I’m waiting for now is a bolt-on paywall with integrated access control that works on an arbitrarily structured static site hosted anywhere. My ideal setup would be a no-code digital ocean server running paywalled gatsby where I check in writing as .md and pay for a CDN.
I increasingly *don’t*want email push or even to “know” my paying readers. It’s just a regulatory headache. But I doubt anonymous pay-as-you-go access without a third party (aka browser-crypto paywall) will be a mainstream thing in my writing lifetime.
What do you think about the writing fellowships, editing, health insurance, legal protection, etc that Substack offers?
How much do small-scale creators really have to worry about GDPR and EU taxes if only selling digitally (i.e. nothing being shipped)? I'm guessing that many don't know they should be collecting this and would just claim ignorance.
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