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Even on cash I rarely put the real purpose in the memo field... Coming from cash, and finding that the world has apparently settled on venmo, has me supremely
by nxc18 8y ago
Even on cash I rarely put the real purpose in the memo field...
Coming from cash, and finding that the world has apparently settled on venmo, has me supremely disappointed. What the hell were they thinking? Payments is not a social network. I hope venmo feels blowback for this, but I know they won't.
Can any venmo engineers comment on their ridiculous system? Do any users actually find value in sharing their drug deals (and other transactions) with the public?
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> the world has apparently settled on venmo My New York circles are on Apple Pay and Zelle. I just refuse to accept Venmo, by virtue of them being a PayPal company.
- wuliwong 8y agoCan you pay your friends through apple pay?
- mikestew 8y agoYou can now, assuming that (duh) your friends have Apple Pay. I have yet to use it, so I cannot speak to the experience.
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- djrogers 8y agoYes, it's called Apple Pay Cash. You can send and receive cash through iMessage, and it gets put on a virtual debit card you can trasfer the $ out of to your bank account, or spend via Apple Pay at a store or via Apple Pay Cash. IMHO it's better and faster than Venmo, PayPal, or any other ones I've tried. Having the money on a virtual debit card you can spend anywhere tha accepts Apple Pay is really nice, and the bank transfers are very quick.
- Jaruzel 8y agoThe PayPal.me thing is quite nice though. I just don't think many people are aware of it: i.e. If you thought this or other comments I have made on Hacker News were useful, please fund my new yacht, sorry, my 'startup business' via https://paypal.me/Jaruze1 https://paypal.me/Jaruze1 :)
- klez 8y agoMy reading of the article is that those payment notes were in jest, not payment for actual drug purchases. I would think people paying/getting payed for drugs are smarter than this.
- compiler-guy 8y agoMany were in jest. But some were likely real, with more euphemistic words.
- Klover 8y ago> and finding that the world has apparently settled on venmo Correction: the world is not limited to the USA.
- pishpash 8y agoAlso it's not limited to people in their twenties, who are the only ones I've seen using Venmo. In any case, Venmo will be gone soon enough, it's already bought by PayPal and I can't see them maintaining two parallel systems.
- bbatha 8y agoThat was close to five years ago and venmo has added major features and a lot of new users in the intervening years. Moreover the paypal brand isn't what it used to be especially among venmo's core demographics.
- pishpash 8y agoWhat major features have been added? On the contrary, I see them retiring the web portal and going mobile only. One day somebody is going to make the easy decision of migrating all the users to PayPal and cutting out the redundant work. Or maybe they'll simply brand PayPal mobile "Venmo", the effect being the same.
- bbatha 8y agoVenmo card and fast withdrawals have been added in the last 6 months.
- jondwillis 8y agoI would guess that the social network aspect is what led them to growth hack their way to be the large payment entity they are today.
- vilhelm_s 8y agoI mean, you can set them to be either public or private, so evidently lots of people do like the public aspect.
- flak48 8y agoIt's public by default, and users have to explicitly change it to private, something the average user might not know. (Or even expect that their payment app is set up by default to broadcast their payments to the world)
- pbreit 8y agoThe "newsfeed" is probably the singular feature responsible for Venmo's success where many others have failed to get traction.