rorygibson

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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Hi hjek I haven't put much active thought into the licensing of the Trolley widget JavaScript code... I'm keen to understand what you're looking for, and why the tag being Free Software is important in this case. Happy to ch
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   You're quite right. We're working on a demo setup :) FYI though - yes, you can choose whether to collect billing & shipping info at a per-product level. The buyer and seller both get notified by email (and if you have the Stri
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Absolutely. PayPal's user experience is usually (though not exclusively) offsite though. Trolley gives you a Stripe Checkout-powered on-site checkout. Right now, Trolley seems to appeal to people who want to do business with Stripe in
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Hi galaxyLogic Right now we don't have download purchases, but for this use case (for a small startup or a bootstrapped company) I'd do it by taking payment and then emailing someone a license key. For low volumes it's totall
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Thanks for the feedback ksahin We'll be looking at digital downloads soon!
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Thanks - that's good and well-reasoned advice. I'm iterating rapidly on the idea - and in particular I'm happy to talk to customers about pricing plans that aren't currently listed on the landing page (if that means fixe
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   Hi laurentl That is an excellent question - in fact it's exactly the one I'm trying to answer with this MVP of Trolley :) Right now I've "launched" on HN and IndieHackers only, and I'm focussing on software, le
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   ClojureScript uses the Google Closure compiler under the hood. From a quick dig around, looking at the Closure changelog, they introduced a polyfill of their own; I'm guessing this went in after CLJS built one, so now there are 2 in th
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   by rorygibson 8y ago

   :)
10. 40.▲
    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Working on it :)
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hi Yes, we're looking at Braintree and Adyen for the future, but for MVP Stripe was by far the easiest starting point. Thanks!
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hi Thanks for the feedback. Inserting a button is part of what Trolley does. But really what it's doing is stopping you having to build / host the back end server and code that handles the tokenised payment exchange for Stripe (St
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hi Trolley is essentially a front-end to Stripe (in Stripe terms we're a Platform working with Standard account). That means that it works where Stripe works, and the money flows to your bank account through Stripe. https://
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hi @justkez Definitely, yes. Right now we're focussing on making Trolley as lightweight and easy to get started as possible, before pulling in more features. I'm really interested in your feedback on how Trolley stacks up against
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Checkout is great - but it'not enough to sell online on its own (I think my comment above that explains this posted just after yours, so you may not have seen it :-) Trolley requires and uses Stripe Checkout, but it's there to mak
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hey, Trolley actually uses Checkout in the UI, so we don't compete directly. What Trolley gives you is - you don't need a server! If you use Checkout yourself, adding the widget to your front end is really easy - but you also nee
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    (I'm already looking at digital downloads as a feature, too :-)
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    That's a good suggestion, thank you!
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Hey That's good feedback, thanks. I'm definitely happy to talk to potential customers about alternate pricing models.... Basically the fee is a % field in the DB, if I wanted to reduce it, or zero it and work through invoicing or
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Great feedback, thank you! We don't support subscriptions today - but we're actively working on it. Single-item payments is our MVP but subscriptions are next. Documentation is .... um, "light" at the moment. Right now,
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    Maker here... I designed this to be a simple Stripe-backend-as-a-service for people who want to take money fast without having to roll any backend code. e.g. landing pages that take a deposit for your product (KickStarter style)
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    Show HN: Trolley lets you take payments from your static site(trolley.link)

    100 points by rorygibson 8y ago|54 comments
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    Show HN: $1 buys you a startup idea(ideasarecheap.net)

    11 points by rorygibson 8y ago|6 comments
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    by rorygibson 8y ago

    (I made this) I mostly did this because I wanted to see just how minimal you can make a site that sells something these days. If I make any actual $ from it I'll update in here :-)
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    “Ideas are cheap, execution is everything” – prove it for $1(ideasarecheap.net)

    2 points by rorygibson 8y ago|1 comments
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    Clojure: Building a JIRA Integration with the Atlassian Connect API(getctx.io)

    2 points by rorygibson 9y ago|0 comments
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    by rorygibson 9y ago

    I got tired of (only) working for other people as a consultant. Started a side project 14 months ago to create a small scale integration tool, and it turned into a full-on search indexing tool for digital product companies - https:/&#
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    Why Clojure?(getctx.io)

    2 points by rorygibson 9y ago|0 comments
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    A sensible set of tools for startup founders(getctx.io)

    5 points by rorygibson 9y ago|1 comments
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    by rorygibson 9y ago

    I kind of agree with this, but I took a slightly different path and built my own 'enterprise search' tool for my Slack, Trello and GDrive, and now I'm productizing it - https://getctx.io - so I'll always be