Where it started

I looked into a digital-product model: buying or creating dashboard templates, improving them and offering them to a specific audience. We focused on Google Sheets tracker bundles and organisation products that sell without any shipping.

Platforms I studied

• Etsy: discovery through search, product listings and testing small niches.
• Gumroad: hosting downloadable products and selling directly.
• Ko-fi: a simple shop and sales to a community.
• Notion and Google Sheets: starting formats, extended with small web apps.

My method

Compare competitors, find real use cases (studying, organisation, finance, tracking a business), improve the design and simplicity, then add clear product pages and examples. The plan for a shop with two partners also raised questions about legal structure, a 50/50 split and business banking.

The key point: rights

Buying a bundle doesn’t automatically allow you to resell it. Before publishing anything, I check whether the licence allows redistribution or resale and whether modified files are restricted. Without explicit rights, I create my own.

Next steps

Test a small selection of original dashboards, measure real interest and only automate distribution once the positioning is confirmed.