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by tbrooks 12y ago
pc, it appears that the Stripe client libraries do not support Balanced-like features. i.e. ACH debits, marketplaces, etc. Migrating over to Stripe sounds great, but having these libraries updated with the proper endpoints seems like a must
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by tbrooks 12y ago
I emailed Stripe this week and got turned down. Should I email again?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Really, really bummed. My v1 was orignally built on Stripe and I moved to Balanced quickly after they launched, because they offered ACH and escrow balance, etc. Whenever I moved over, Mahmoud (Balanced CTO) stayed up past 1am to help me mi
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Not stingy, just picky. I have an offer at for $60k base with $100k on-target earnings. I wouldn't say that's stingy at all.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
2.5 years. Yeah I think I could be at $1mm ARR in 3-4 years if I was full-time. I'm just too risk averse to make the jump from my current gig. I've tried hiring a full-time salesperson to grow the business, but it's just real
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Are you me?! Wow this described my situation exactly . Same revenue, same costs, same lifestage (2 kids, mtg), same high paying job, etc. I've found some ways to make the process even more self-serve than it already is, maybe we can
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Cool, thx. [edit] How is "enough" measured? Is there an absolute number? Or some ratio of evaluating flagged comments/stories?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
What does [flagkilled] mean?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Out of all the things pg could write about, I wonder why he chose to write about this. Seems uncharacteristic of his previous essays. [edit] I just noticed this was posted under "Responses" and not "Essays". Still an odd
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by tbrooks 12y ago
I'd be interested in working with you on this. I've thought a lot about a product like this and could sell it pretty easily to my existing customer base.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
In the past, I've polled my customers and asked about both Bitcoin and Dwolla as low-cost tithing avenues. They are met with blank stares. Doesn't seem like a felt need at this point.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Yeah, at a minimum they see a bump of 5% in online giving. Some churches use it specifically for 1-time giving w/o logging in and they see a much larger increase for that type. I ask people to cancel if they don't see ROI in 3 mon
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Yeah, I believe those started after I formed corporately. Not sure what the extra benefit is for me at this point.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
As someone who owns a business that sells exclusively to churches ( https://simpledonation.com ), I know what that uneasiness can feel like -- the seemingly diametrical goals of building a business to return shareholder capital an
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Why did you take the site down? Wouldn't that appear as an admission of guilt on some level?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
How does this apply to AirBnB?
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Incredibly misleading. 0% equals 0% when 0% is actually 0%, not 2.9%.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Yep, should've made that clear in my original comment.
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by tbrooks 12y ago
Any donation >$250 to a candidate's committee is required to be disclosed to the FEC. It's also searchable here: www.fec.gov
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by tbrooks 13y ago
As it should.
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by tbrooks 13y ago
I love the mad-lib style form on the home page. I assum it converts well?
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by tbrooks 13y ago
They also made a pretty killer guide with Shopify: http://www.viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide/
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by tbrooks 13y ago
Another way to make $264 billion in 2013, buy a Powerball lotto ticket every day, and pick the 5 winning Jackpot numbers. Repeat 364 times.... you're rich.
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by tbrooks 13y ago
Jason Cohen a.k.a "asmartbear" blogs regularly and he was the CEO of WPEngine before handing over the reins to a new CEO.
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by tbrooks 13y ago
I actually joined about a year ago and the decision had already been made to use Rails to run our API and server-side code. We have 4 different apps; one of the major ones is already using Rails/EventMachine to power it and we've
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by tbrooks 13y ago
If you would've clicked through and seen that one of the co-founders was female, maybe we could've avoided this comment.
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by tbrooks 13y ago
It's actually more of a move away from MySQL -> Mongo, than Java to Rails All of our other apps are on a Rails/Mongo stack. Most of our dev team is Rails and figured it'd be easier to hire Senior Rails hackers than Java fo
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by tbrooks 13y ago
ActiveProspect.com - Austin, TX or REMOTE Senior Web Engineer About us: - Bootstrapped and Profitable - 17 people, 7 programmers - Flexible work hours (our designer is backpacking Europe) - Really great pay, retirement, hea
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by tbrooks 13y ago
Interesting to see new entrants to the church market. I built a similar product marketed specifically to churches - https://simpledonation.com Here are some of the things I've learned: Building the technology is the easy pa
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by tbrooks 13y ago
One of my favorite things about Balanced is that all their communication re: APIs, possible new features, the dashboard... everything is on GitHub. I've dialogued with each of the founders in one way or another through GH. It's be

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