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I don't understand what's the deal with so many negative comments, from what is supposed to be a community of hackers. These guys found a clever way of hacking
by marcamillion 16y ago
I don't understand what's the deal with so many negative comments, from what is supposed to be a community of hackers.
These guys found a clever way of hacking the PR loop, while slamming their major competitor, and did a damn well good job of it.
Rather than being douchebags and saying "what was the purpose? They aren't direct competitors." We - the collective we, being the community of hackers - should relish at the thought that one of our kind has sent a direct message to Paypal that we are tired of their bullshit.
Plus they got a ton of free press over it. Stop whining because they came up with a brilliant stunt and you didn't.
If you play nice, when you launch your company/product and come up with a similarly ingenious PR ploy we will upvote your submission too.
Until then, give props where props are due.
Kudos Bill & the WePay team.
Edit: I am not a member of the YC network or anything like that, so don't even reply with any smart comments of that nature. Just sick and tired of the constant bitching from people who would benefit from the experiments done here, but chose to whine about them instead.
- andreyf 16y agoWhy so zealous? PayPal has been focused on competing for small business accounts with Chase, and WePay is attacking them with UX formerly focused on p2p payments, and moving into developer mindshare. PayPal is moving (slowly) to defend (but their UX is not there yet). My prediction is that WePay will convert enough people quickly enough to survive. With what I see from ebay/paypal product quality, I imagine there's a huge opportunity to creep into their markets one by one.