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With the great things that Stripe and GoCardless are doing I worry that the market for apps like this Chargify and the others will start shrinking soon. Stripe
by jot 14y ago
With the great things that Stripe and GoCardless are doing I worry that the market for apps like this Chargify and the others will start shrinking soon. Stripe may not be able to gobble up the whole market themselves but I'm sure there will be other services inspired by them.
Rather than focusing on the nasty PCI compliance stuff there could be a bigger opportunity to work a layer higher. Think business tools for managing and measuring subscriptions across different services. Recurly, Chargify et al seem to have stagnated on that front, probably because they're having to spend so much time on retaining PCI compliance while scaling.
- skrish 14y agoValid points that we keep getting asked about. Our thought is: how can I build the essential tools to help you manage entire accounts receivables for you? What reports, integrations can I provide so you are able to focus completely on core product and marketing functions. This is our first entry into building a business and our focus is to add more value on the side of merchants than the processor end. Thanks for the input. Will definitely keep this in mind as we add features to our application.