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Well, they don't steal their clients' money through abuse of their own terms of service, so that's one thing. Mainly, though, it's because they have a fairly si
by coldacid 9y ago
Well, they don't steal their clients' money through abuse of their own terms of service, so that's one thing. Mainly, though, it's because they have a fairly simple API, compared to PayPal, which makes their service easier to integrate into others.
- jondubois 9y agoYes the PayPal API and its documentation has always been terrible. It really wasn't hard to beat. That said, I think that Y Combinator was crucial for Stripe's success. So many developers read HN and pracyically all of them needed a better alternative to PayPal.