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It also depends on your market. If ProductHunt disappeared tomorrow, I'd be sad, but that's it. Stripe and Parse on the other hand both needed to signal stren
by nostromo 11y ago
It also depends on your market.
If ProductHunt disappeared tomorrow, I'd be sad, but that's it.
Stripe and Parse on the other hand both needed to signal strength to their customers from day one. There are many customers that would not entrust their payment details with getstripe.ly.
- corobo 11y agoI've never really thought about it until now but I don't think I'd even pay for a service on .ly et al even if it was using stripe/PayPal Maybe I'm just getting old but the .com wins it for me, at an absolute push for online services I'll trust a .net
- CmonDev 11y agoWhat about https:\\ though?
- corobo 11y agoIt's trivial to get a cert for HTTPS. That doesn't tell me if the people behind the site are trustworthy, security conscious or going to be around in a year's time I know that the dotcom doesn't do that either, it's not a rational thing - just a thing
- pbreit 11y ago.ly is particularly bad because Lybia's maintenance is a real risk.