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> A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment. Have you seen the new mon
by petcat 5mo ago
> A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment.
Have you seen the new money app? It's on Tubu. It's on Weeno. I'm on Dippy but my friend is on Poob. Poob has it for you.
- fontain 5mo agoI’m 50. All startup news looks like this: “Payments via Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy launch new startup.”
- echelon 5mo agoIt's better than that trend of taking English words and removing the final vowels before "r" or some other consonant.
- nemomarx 5mo agoI'm not actually sure Wubi and Tubu are better than something like Cashr tbh
- HoldOnAMinute 5mo agoObliteratr
- mattkevan 5mo agoObltrtr
- jawilson2 5mo agoOr adding "-ly" at the end. "Just use Cashly!" "Download Crditly"
- abustamam 5mo agoIt's bonkers to me that Box and Square are two totally different companies in two totally different industries
- seritools 5mo agothen add a second r and it's suddenly piracy or torrent related!
- abustamam 5mo agoVowels are _so_ 1900s
- overfeed 5mo agoWe're appending "AI" now to English words, to match the Anguilla TLD that are fashionable and will never become dated. - Mike, co-founder of MoistAI
- danielbln 5mo agoAh yes, that hot trend from 2010.
- btown 5mo agoFor the uninitiated: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you
- iamtheworstdev 5mo agoalso relevant is the end of this SNL sketch from this last weekend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS97AzfKp3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS97AzfKp3U
- shabgzer 5mo agoHow mind-numbingly lame. Just another dime a dozen meme.
- atonse 5mo agoLOL thank you domain squatters. I can't think of any other reason why startups often always have the most ridiculous names.
- fontain 5mo agoEvery single 3 and 4 letter .com domain has been registered for at least 20 years, not a single one is available to register. Domains aren’t the reason for names like “wiro” and “tubi”.
- Imustaskforhelp 5mo agoYeah its a bit bad LLLL.com are all taken I do have k4qr.com but its LNLL. On the other hand though, there are still .org and .net if you are lucky. I usually just use tld-list.com to find all the domains from a particular keyword and then you can buy one which can be nice (eg: I bought https://mirror.forum https://mirror.forum this way) that being said, you can find the registration prices to sometimes be cheap but the renewal prices can be double the .com or more (which is around 8-10$) For my domain of https://use.expert https://use.expert its renewal is around 40-50$ (4x .com price) but probably worth it as I really love it but I might drop a few domains like mirror.forum as its 20$ just doesn't feel worth it to me and I will just auction it in some forums, not really that sure at the moment So TLDR: you can find some good names if really need be but the idea generally for these startups is to do something similar to what I am saying and then buy the .com later if/when they have the funds, personally I am not that big of a fan of .com but I do realize that I have more chances of remembering .com's because that's the default expectation of the internet.
- pas 5mo agofunny enough LLLL.com redirects to qq.com [the Chinese portal]
- heffer 5mo agoI don't think it explains the "cat walks on keyboard" brand names for cheap Chinese goods on Amazon.
- p2detar 5mo agoSounds totally fine to me. I guess just like there are many Mastodon instances: mastodon.social, fosstodon, infosec.exchange, mas.to, etc., but one protocol by which they talk to each other.
- kome 5mo agoahahah! so true. those names are silly. also, French and Spanish can already send money for free via IBAN / SEPA
- gnfargbl 5mo agoAh yes, Pierre will surely have no issues paying for his baguette et croissant by filling in the boulangerie's IBAN on his mobile phone and waiting 15 minutes for them to check receipt.
- dgellow 5mo agoWe have instant bank transfers in Europe. And you can scan a QR code for payment via IBAN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code
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- p2detar 5mo agoThat's not the point at all. Currently I'm using paypal to send money to friends when we split dinner or share other costs. I'd like to use a similar European service instead and not go through a ceremony to open my banking app, initiate transfer, write the recipient's IBAN, confirm and wait a day for the transfer to take place.
- jeroenhd 5mo agoYou shouldn't need to wait for a day, instant transfers have been a thing for a while now. Unless you're in terribly bad luck to be stuck with one of the few banks that are lagging behind. International money transfers, even between currencies, now take seconds whenever I do them. The "map phone number to bank account" services do make this whole thing a lot easier, but on the other hand I kind of don't want to help scammers by giving them the option to look up what bank they need to pretend to be before dialing a number.
- nottorp 5mo ago
- bad_username 5mo agoI can feel Galactus's pain.
- sgjohnson 5mo ago> > A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment. SEPA Instant Payments also solves that.
- dgan 5mo agoI doubt so, because i need to type god-knows-how-many characters by hand, while visually separating them into chunks by 4, then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country
- sgjohnson 5mo ago> then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country I've never had to do any of this, and I quire frequently send SEPA payments from Latvia.
- dgan 5mo agoWell i am in France, and what I said is factually true for some banks; at least mine (LCL)
- cybrox 5mo agoWhile your complaint is valid, no need to separate in chunks, there's a checksum.
- culhatsker 5mo agoYes, the only difference is that you need to communicate your bank account number and likely your legal name.
- sgjohnson 5mo ago> you need to communicate your bank account number in Latvia we need to do this for domestic payments anyway. We use IBAN even for domestic payments.. > and likely your legal name. not mandatory. If provided, the bank tells you whether the recipient name matches the account, but if not, you can proceed with the payment anyway.
- jeanloolz 5mo agoFrenchman here, living in Spain. This speaks to me on many levels. Bizum is so integrated in my daily life in Spain, that I wished my french friends had it when we need to transfer money between each other. Looks like we're going in that direction. Phenomenal