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The problem with everyone getting into "pay your friends" is that everyone wants to be paid in a different way and you need a dozen different accounts. And it s
by freehunter 9y ago
The problem with everyone getting into "pay your friends" is that everyone wants to be paid in a different way and you need a dozen different accounts. And it seems like everyone wants to help you pay your friends these days.
- ryandrake 9y agoThis is fully generalizable to all kinds of software nowadays. The problem with everyone getting into "[SOFTWARE PRODUCT]" is that everyone wants to [DO THIS SOFTWARE THING] in a different way and you need a dozen different accounts. And it seems like everyone wants to help you [DO THIS SOFTWARE THING] these days. It’s like Beta vs VHS, with 3-20 incompatible competitors, over and over and over for eternity.
- freehunter 9y agoThen someone comes in and says “we need [software thing] as a protocol like email” and then someone invents [software thing] as a protocol and now everyone on HN wonders why no one uses [software thing] as a protocol despite its obvious superiority.
- cmplxconjugate 9y agoAnd this is why in China it’s a breath of fresh air; everyone (almost literally) has WeChat and it is trivial to send money to another person.