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It comes down to what you want to be your core competency. If it's billing, sure go for it. Being fully able to customize your billing stack is I think a stren
by makeitdouble 3y ago
It comes down to what you want to be your core competency.
If it's billing, sure go for it. Being fully able to customize your billing stack is I think a strength, exactly because of all the points the OP is making, plus many other traps. I think it can be genuinely interesting and there's always more to discover, but it's a full time job for a at least a small team for most companies.
If instead your goal was to run a business or build user features, do other things, offloading the billing part is definitely the best (probably the only) option.
- jameshart 3y agoObtaining income from customers, and correctly accounting for it such that you can pay the right amounts of taxes on it so the government and your customers’ lawyers will let you keep it, is in many senses the only core competency a business needs.
- makeitdouble 3y agoIMHO you'll probably need a reason for your customers to pay you in the place. Perhaps you're giving Walmart money because they're very good at accepting it, but as a customer there's probably something else you're expecting from the exchange...