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/dev/payments and paydemon are definitely two names that engineering founders would come up with, but which would not inspire confidence from anyone else. I lik
by karaterobot 3y ago
/dev/payments and paydemon are definitely two names that engineering founders would come up with, but which would not inspire confidence from anyone else. I liked the anecdote about not realizing that "forge" was not a good choice of names for a payment company. Naming is hard, just go with something simple and neutral, that you can live with. Stripe is boring, which is good.
- jimmydddd 3y agoNot sure if this is accurate, but it seemed to me that early on they were originally targeting selling code snippets for developers to integrate into their systems? So the nerdy name would have had meaning that narrow customer base?
- jcutrell 3y agoThey sorta still do this as a part of their business for sure.
- karaterobot 3y agoDevelopers implement Stripe into products, but they aren't always the owners of the products, or the ones making the decision on what service to use.
- fragmede 3y agoThe claim via Bloomberg is that it took only seven lines of code to integrate Stripe into your website and for you (as a developer) to start accepting payments. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-brothers-turned-seven-lines-of-code-into-a-9-2-billion-startup https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902696