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I hope they hold off - going public tends to kill innovation and replace it with bureaucracy
by mercwear 7mo ago
I hope they hold off - going public tends to kill innovation and replace it with bureaucracy
- anovikov 7mo agoAlmost as if there's a lot to innovate in a "dumb pipe" a payment processor naturally is.
- jacquesm 7mo agoAt scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.
- dewey 7mo agoCan probably build it in a weekend.
- malfist 7mo agoYou let me know when VISA lets you colocate into their rack for processing payments with your built in a weekend vibe coded project.
- dewey 7mo agoI guess I should've added "/s" :P
- pestaa 7mo agodewey was joking.
- elictronic 7mo agoManagement reading a thread like this need the /s.
- ggregoire 7mo agoin 2 hours with claude code
- xarope 7mo agoI know you mean this with a /s, but hey, we just need a proper File Transfer Protocol, an SQL-lite database server, and some simple vibe coded python business logic, no test cases required. What can go wrong... (/s just in case as well)
- zer00eyz 7mo agoThe thing is they have "tooling" to help create their own customers: https://stripe.com/atlas https://stripe.com/atlas They also have a tax product, and a few other things that are in the orbit around payment processing. Their product offerings are a bit more than just the "dumb pipe" portion of the transaction.