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A crowdfunding site for product feature requests. Stripe closed my account before I was able to launch as it was "unable to accept payments for crowdfunding"..

by ron22 7y ago

A crowdfunding site for product feature requests. Stripe closed my account before I was able to launch as it was "unable to accept payments for crowdfunding"..... Their marketing doesn't match their policies.

james_impliu 7y ago
This is a really cool idea. You could add a tag to feature request issues that it'd read from, maybe as a github app or something. I run an OS repo and it'd be really cool to be able to get through them all faster with a bit of money to pay a freelancer, for example. I imagine the users-paying side would be very hard to find though. I'd also love to be able to attach a bounty to PRs with this money, although quality control would make me worry it'd be hard. I imagine Patreon is never an enormous sum for people because the money is goodwill - it isn't tied to receiving anything back. You could make it like this. I'm surprised there wasn't some other way of doing this - clearly other crowd funding sites exists, what do they use?
- ron22 7y ago
  For open source issues there's already a few solutions, one to look at is https://issuehunt.io/ https://issuehunt.io/ (they use Stripe) Most use Stripe. I guess it's just a case by case thing. I really don't know why they rejected me when they advertise that exact use case [1]. But the policy I was directed to says the opposite [2]. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/recipes/connect-crowdfunding https://stripe.com/docs/recipes/connect-crowdfunding [2] https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses
ravenstine 7y ago
> Stripe closed my account before I was able to launch as it was "unable to accept payments for crowdfunding"..... Their marketing doesn't match their policies. Wow. I understand it's their right to do this, but that's total horseshit IMO. I guess maybe crowdfunding is subject to too many refunds, but IDK.
edwinwee 7y ago
Stripe supports crowdfunding sites. I’d be happy to take a second look if you email me at edwin@stripe.com.
- ron22 7y ago
  Awesome, email sent!

by ron22 7y ago

james_impliu 7y ago

This is a really cool idea. You could add a tag to feature request issues that it'd read from, maybe as a github app or something. I run an OS repo and it'd be really cool to be able to get through them all faster with a bit of money to pay a freelancer, for example. I imagine the users-paying side would be very hard to find though. I'd also love to be able to attach a bounty to PRs with this money, although quality control would make me worry it'd be hard. I imagine Patreon is never an enormous sum for people because the money is goodwill - it isn't tied to receiving anything back. You could make it like this. I'm surprised there wasn't some other way of doing this - clearly other crowd funding sites exists, what do they use?

ron22 7y ago
For open source issues there's already a few solutions, one to look at is https://issuehunt.io/ https://issuehunt.io/ (they use Stripe) Most use Stripe. I guess it's just a case by case thing. I really don't know why they rejected me when they advertise that exact use case [1]. But the policy I was directed to says the opposite [2]. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/recipes/connect-crowdfunding https://stripe.com/docs/recipes/connect-crowdfunding [2] https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

ravenstine 7y ago

> Stripe closed my account before I was able to launch as it was "unable to accept payments for crowdfunding"..... Their marketing doesn't match their policies. Wow. I understand it's their right to do this, but that's total horseshit IMO. I guess maybe crowdfunding is subject to too many refunds, but IDK.

edwinwee 7y ago

Stripe supports crowdfunding sites. I’d be happy to take a second look if you email me at edwin@stripe.com.

ron22 7y ago
Awesome, email sent!