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It always amazes me when things like this happen. If you look at the comments on this post you'll see people responding as if this a terrific new idea/frontier.
by pgrote 5y ago
It always amazes me when things like this happen. If you look at the comments on this post you'll see people responding as if this a terrific new idea/frontier. Others respond with links to existing solutions as you did; Gumroad was my first thought, too.
And to me, this is one of the main benefits of hackernews. I don't know everything, I don't know everything available, so I take value from everyone adding the options they know about.
- arkitaip 5y agoThis IS terrific news if you are using Stripe and want to stick with them as your one payment solution.
- loceng 5y agoUntil adoption increases enough and they decide they can milk customers even more?
- frakkingcylons 5y agoReally? What has stripe done in the past to make it feel like they’re being greedy? Besides, nobody is using stripe because it’s the cheapest option.
- kennywinker 5y ago> What has stripe done in the past Take VC funding. I'm being glib, but honestly - it feels like every large vc funded company is actually some many-layered plan to take over existing markets, and then exploit their new monopoly
- tjs8rj 5y agoThat’s exactly the point of VC largely - no really, that’s no secret at all. VCs want unicorns. To get that big you often have to be the biggest in the space or big enough with enough moat to effectively be a monopoly. Monopoly status is the goal
- kennywinker 5y agoSo why is VC funding considered a Good Thing® and actively promoted as the way businesses should be created, when literally everybody agrees monopolies are a bad thing?
- barsonme 5y agoBecause everybody wants to be a monopoly but nobody wants to be monopolized.
- tjs8rj 5y agoNot sure what you mean. It’s definitely glamorized, just like working a high paying finance job is (but I don’t think many would call Wall Street ethical or moral). Lots of people want to be VC backed because it’s great for you, but it’s more complicated whether it’s great for anyone else
- chrischattin 5y agoThey stopped refunding payment processing fees on refunds, for one.
- frakkingcylons 5y agoLong after other comparable gateways had already stopped refunding those too.