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by ntalbott 14y ago
Agreed, except... we actually don't have a UI to show. The transparent redirect approach that Core takes means that we'd just be showing you our customers' payment pages, which while spiffy, don't really tell you anything about the integrat
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by ntalbott 14y ago
I started to get wrist pain when I was about twenty, and did some reading on it. One thing I saw recommended at the time was to make sure never to sleep with the wrist bent in (i.e. a "limp wrist" position), but always straight or bent back
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Undercover Billionaire: Sara Blakely of Spanx(forbes.com)
5 points by ntalbott 15y ago|0 comments
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Standardizing Incompatibilities(chriseppstein.github.com)
1 points by ntalbott 15y ago|0 comments
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8 Things You Ought to Know About Hiring A Software Developer(blog.8thlight.com)
2 points by ntalbott 15y ago|0 comments
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by ntalbott 15y ago
This makes me chuckle - the funny thing is that we were actually the first "small business" subscription service - Chargify, Recurly, etc., all launched well after us. That said, it also meant we didn't have any point of reference when we i
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by ntalbott 15y ago
Think businesses would bite? Month-to-month, no minimum, cancel any time is so much in vogue, it's hard to imagine there would be much traction around a multi-year contract, but maybe I'm wrong.
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by ntalbott 15y ago
That's certainly one perspective; prescience is something I wish we were better at. Another perspective is that a startup is a search for a viable business model, and each of the subscription services in turn has realized that their entry p
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by ntalbott 15y ago
Once you hit sufficient transactions/month your per transaction fee will drop back to 20¢/transaction.
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by ntalbott 15y ago
Trust me, we weren't happy about having to raise the price. It was a painful, hard-fought decision to change it internally, and to not permanently grandfather existing customers. But in the end it's about having a sustainable business - the
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by ntalbott 15y ago
One learns a lot in a year. I said some things then that I wish I'd had more experience to back up; if I had, I probably would have tempered them more. That said, I also said this: "Even if you absolutely have to raise prices across the boa
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Spreedly Changes Pricing(blog.spreedly.com)
4 points by ntalbott 15y ago|0 comments
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Reading the bill, I'm not seeing where it bans community fiber; rather it seems to require local government to not use tax monies to subsidize the access, and to not abuse their position to hamper private competition. Both seem pretty reaso
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by ntalbott 16y ago
We (at Spreedly) have talked to several QSA's about this question, and their take is that using a redirect removes the application from PCI scope. It's a really good illustration of how PCI != security.
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by ntalbott 16y ago
I run Terralien, and I can only speak from my own experiences doing so, since it seems most businesses that have been built mostly by a freelancer or a devshop don't go out of their way to publicize that fact. Terralien does ongoing develop
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Questions before building your business on a freelancer(terralien.com)
17 points by ntalbott 16y ago|8 comments
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by ntalbott 16y ago
That's correct; we'll rapidly (and I mean rapidly ) add any of the gateways on that list to Core as beta customers request them. And we can probably add gateways that aren't on that list - just drop us a line to double-check. In the meanti
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by ntalbott 16y ago
There's a lot of content still to get up, and a lot of design polish still to be applied. We're not quite ready for a public launch yet, thus the "these guys are just getting started" ghetto look. That said, our Subscriptions product ( http
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by ntalbott 16y ago
It doesn't work/help yet, but improving the 3D-Secure process is in our sights. And it could definitely use improving.
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Our copy needs so much work. Wasn't really counting on hitting the front page of Hacker News today... Good call on having the pithy 5-10 word description - that's on my short list now.
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by ntalbott 16y ago
There are a few key value props: * Your PCI compliance burden is significantly reduced. * Card storage is a seamless process, and at the end of the day you own the card data. * You can easily switch gateways (or balance across multiple ga
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by ntalbott 16y ago
We do indeed have the process in place for sensitive data exports - it's a bit involved, as it has to be, but we've done it more than once for our Subscriptions product.
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Our understanding after talking to multiple QSA's about the transparent redirect is that it allows the merchant to legitimately claim that they do not "store, process, or transmit" credit card data, which means they only have to fill out SA
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Our philosophy is one of "you own the data". We've done dumps for customers of our Subscriptions product, and we'll gladly do them for Core customers as well. We see this as one of the significant value adds of Core - avoiding lock-in, incl
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Totally correct, and we need to re-iterate the SSL requirement in a few places. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by ntalbott 16y ago
Spreedly CEO here... So, we weren't quite ready to land on the front page of HN, but mission accomplished - we now have a whole list of smart people to invite into the beta, so thanks to bradleyjoyce for giving us that nudge. I'm going to w
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Getting Schooled in User Experience(terralien.com)
3 points by ntalbott 16y ago|0 comments
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I am not saying that Less Accounting sucks but...(thatradioshow.com)
2 points by ntalbott 16y ago|0 comments
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by ntalbott 16y ago
[Disclaimer: I run Terralien, and the author of the article works for me.] Building custom software is nothing like building a cookie-cutter tract house - completely agreed. In that case you're getting the same house as someone else, the bu
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Time & Materials vs. Fixed Price(terralien.com)
21 points by ntalbott 16y ago|13 comments

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