Gumroad

Gumroad is an e-commerce platform designed for creators to sell digital products, memberships, and services directly to their audience. It provides tools for storefront customization, payment processing, audience management, and product discovery through its marketplace. The platform aims to simplify the process of earning online for independent creators.

Gumroad is a platform for creators to sell digital products and memberships. It supports various monetization models, including subscriptions and pay-what-you-want. While it doesn't explicitly mention a 'rich text editor' for long-form articles, it allows creators to sell content like e-books and courses, implying some form of content creation or upload. It has a discovery marketplace with tags and categories, which acts as a recommendation engine. It also offers user profiles, email newsletter tools, mobile app access for buyers, and social sharing features. The platform focuses more on direct sales of digital goods rather than a pure publishing platform like Medium, which is why some 'must-have' features like a dedicated rich text editor for articles and detailed reader engagement metrics are not explicitly highlighted in the same way.