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Hey -- just want to say thanks to the people on HN who've given us feedback and encouraged us along the way. We're building Stripe for the kind of people who re
by pc 15y ago
Hey -- just want to say thanks to the people on HN who've given us feedback and encouraged us along the way. We're building Stripe for the kind of people who read Hacker News, and the suggestions we've received here have generally been the most useful feedback we've gotten anywhere.
So, thanks. We're pretty excited about the next few years.
- jmitcheson 15y agoPlease use the funding to expand to other countries!
- chrismiller 15y agoSeriously please come to Australia! I have a project ready to go (with the exception of billing). It is almost impossible for an Australian business to easily accept credit card payments in USD. I have looked at Saasy.com but the lack of data portability makes it an unattractive option.
- nreece 15y ago> It is almost impossible for an Australian business to easily accept credit card payments in USD. PayPal works just fine for that, although it's not so pleasant to integrate and manage.
- pm 15y agoAgreed. Australia!
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- garazy 15y agoPayPal really is the only solution unless you can get the one bank in Australia to let you open a USD account, you'll also need a modem to check your balance with them online. This is a good thread http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/dcc079980b68741d http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/brows... about the complexities in setting it up in Australia and unfortunately I suspect Stripe will consider the risks outweigh the benefits of providing this sort of functionality in oz.
- verelo 15y agoIn Canada we're using CheddarGetter and paypal to accept USD, however as an Australian (Living in Canada....) i know exactly what you mean and have been through it before. I seriously suggest you look at Paypal, if you want to make switching easy however, abstract the implementation as much as you can. We're using CheddarGetter to do the abstraction for us, its $79 / month for CheddarGetter...but any half decent programmer who i trust with our billing doesnt cost far from that per hour anyway. Its a cheap means of getting around some smelly situations!
- armandososa 15y agoI'm sure Mexico will be down on the list just before Cuba but I'll wait for you guys.
- ngsayjoe 15y agoWe're waiting for you in Malaysia :)
- gumbah 15y agoWe need you in NL too! (desperately)
- marceldegraaf 15y agoI second this. Recurring credit card payments are virtually impossible in the EU at the moment, and the existing options (e.g. PayPal) suck or are too expensive.
- ernestipark 15y agoCongrats pc/jc! Hope you guys do great things going forward.
- phillmv 15y agoWe spent a not unsubstantial amount of time moaning about our inability to use you guys here in Canada, if that's any comfort.
- pc 15y agoYup. And there are people working full-time on making it happen.
- thedangler 15y agoI am really excited. Thank you for all your hard work. Can't wait for it to break Canadian ground. I waited 1.5 years for Twilio.... please say its sooner then that. Again. Great job.
- verelo 15y agoI just wanted to add another voice to this (and i'll up vote it dont worry!) We decided to go with paypal payments pro for our beta because stripe wasnt supported in Canada, as soon as you guys get here we'll make the switch however! Very excited you have people working on it!
- phillmv 15y agoBeanstream and Adaptive Payments here. Man, I dislike PayPal.
- sycr 15y agoGreat job. Stripe is one of the few valuations that doesn't seem out-of-this-world insane. Get yourselves into Canada!
- shimon_e 15y agoDon't forget to spend some of the money to lower your costs and then lower the fees. This field needs competition to make the old players uncompetitive and run them out of business.
- dspillett 15y agoJust to chime in with the others regarding international support: hopefully the funding will help you expand in that way. I'm in the UK and would like to see some more viable alternatives to Paypal.