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> Swipe: A billing and payments solution for Indian small and medium-sized businesses. [...] As my colleague Alex Wilhelm put it, Swipe is Stripe, with a W.

granshaw 5y ago
That’s for a foreign market (India) though which proves the original point
- tyre 5y ago
  Stripe is international, including in India.
  - rahulgoel 5y ago
    Stripe's messaging seems focused on infra for the "internet". I think Swipe is more niche ie: focused on Indian SMBs who may have a very different workflow. Swipe is focusing on WhatsApp powered payments. (See: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2). Though, you'd think they would compete for the same customers over time.
DonHopkins 5y ago
Also: Steal is Steel with an A, Rob is Rub with an O, and ShopLyft is Shoplift with a Y. Why PayPal for it when you can just Swipe it? In the same vein, BooKing.com is BooQueen.com with a penis. That kind of majestic insubordination can get you a €400 fine and a few weeks of jail time in the Netherlands where their headquarters are located, but I wonder what problems they had with the harsher Lèse-majesté laws in Thailand because of their name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai... >With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere"; its enforcement "has been in the interest of the palace". [...] Even attempting to commit lèse-majesté, making sarcastic comments about the King's pet, and failure to rebuke an offense have been prosecuted as lèse-majesté. [...] The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the benefit of the doubt. [...] The longest recorded sentence was in 2021: 87 years imprisonment, reduced to 43 years because the defendant pleaded guilty.

granshaw 5y ago

That’s for a foreign market (India) though which proves the original point

tyre 5y ago
Stripe is international, including in India.
- rahulgoel 5y ago
  Stripe's messaging seems focused on infra for the "internet". I think Swipe is more niche ie: focused on Indian SMBs who may have a very different workflow. Swipe is focusing on WhatsApp powered payments. (See: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2). Though, you'd think they would compete for the same customers over time.

DonHopkins 5y ago

Also: Steal is Steel with an A, Rob is Rub with an O, and ShopLyft is Shoplift with a Y. Why PayPal for it when you can just Swipe it? In the same vein, BooKing.com is BooQueen.com with a penis. That kind of majestic insubordination can get you a €400 fine and a few weeks of jail time in the Netherlands where their headquarters are located, but I wonder what problems they had with the harsher Lèse-majesté laws in Thailand because of their name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai... >With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere"; its enforcement "has been in the interest of the palace". [...] Even attempting to commit lèse-majesté, making sarcastic comments about the King's pet, and failure to rebuke an offense have been prosecuted as lèse-majesté. [...] The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the benefit of the doubt. [...] The longest recorded sentence was in 2021: 87 years imprisonment, reduced to 43 years because the defendant pleaded guilty.