Alex Standiford

Envato’s move to a 50% commission is…perplexing. Feels like they’re biting the hand that feeds them at best, extortion at worst.

What’s funny is they decided to do this as AI is literally making it easier than ever to get off of these platforms. It’s like they WANT You to leave.

Seriously though, own your platform, y’all. WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads have been around for a coon’s age, and solve your problem without paying an arbitrary tax to whatever Envato’s investors decide you need to pay.

That distribution ain’t worth that tax. You could literally run an affiliate program with Siren Affiliates with a 25% commission rate (which I think is already really high for reliably converting software!) and capture a lot of that distribution, while actually taking ownership of those relationships and spreading out your dependency to your entire network.