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Interesting move by Stripe, and I guess it explains why WePay and Balanced choose to focus on the API and not their d2c offerings. With the 'remember me' featu

by nhangen 13y ago

Interesting move by Stripe, and I guess it explains why WePay and Balanced choose to focus on the API and not their d2c offerings. With the 'remember me' feature, Stripe has chosen to impede upon the territory of their developers, which greatly concerns me. I love their product, but one of the reasons I choose to use them is because of the options that their API provides. Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers, or is it designed to help them sell more product? I'm sure Stripe staffers will say that it's the latter, but if that's the case, who is the primary customer for this offering?

pc 13y ago
This move was directly motivated by our users telling us that they want us to help fix payments on mobile devices. If you want to use Checkout (it's completely optional, and will always be), we think it can help you a lot here. Checkout contains the smallest amount of Stripe branding possible. > Is this a back-end play to eventually cut out developers That's crazy! We built a new feature in response to feedback from developers. Nothing is going away. Can you imagine ways of doing this better? (I'd genuinely love to hear suggestions.)