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Couldn't have said it better myself.

We don't have any plans to make a hardware system for taking payments. Only online. Square is not a business I want to be up against right now :-)

We're purposely not trying to compete on price. There are always going to be cheaper solutions out there. We're aiming to be the best. We're aiming to be the absolute easiest check…

We cap our Forge fee at $500 a month. You'll always pay the 2.9%+30 cents per transaction, but you'll never pay Forge more than $500 a month.

I don't see us competing with Stripe. If you're a developer and have the time to write and maintain a payment solution around Stripe, then Forge definitely isn't for you. We're goi…

That's certainly a valid point. We're trying to convey that you're forging a lasting online business and doing the hard work to be independent from a corporate job. If the name tur…

Absolutely. If you're doing enough business, that 2% really adds up. At that point, it is financially worth it for you to build your own backend payment solution using Stripe or Ba…

Thank you for the feedback :-)

Believe me. We're bummed about that too. We're working as hard as we can to get into other countries, but we had to start somewhere.

You are correct. We are more expensive than Stripe if you're just looking at money. But we look at it from a time and capital perspective. With Stripe, you have to code and maintai…

Designer at Forge here. Those are both great questions. We're aiming Forge at people who cannot write their own backend payment processor to use Stripe, and only know basic HTML. I…

I didn't mean that programmers and "people who barely understand HTML" were the same person. Sorry for the confusion. We're aiming Forge at people who can't code their own website …

We appreciate all the feedback and we'll try to clear things up based on your advice with the homepage. Thank you.

I agree. It would be better if we had storefronts for these people, and product pages they can link to. That's on our todo list.

That's a great point. Perhaps a demo video explaining how it works would show the "easyness" of it.

Easy enough for programmers to use, but not people who barely understand HTML. That's the market Forge is serving.

Designer of Forge here. We're aiming to solve the problems of the non-techie market. People who just want to sell something online shouldn't be worrying about payment gateways, pay…

Were these high quality users in the sense that they converted to paid from a free account? What source lead to the highest quality users?

From the source of the website: " " It was worth a shot.

I don't think filling in a form online will ever be glamorous. The thing I strive for when designing a form is that it is usable by anyone and instantly recognizable as a form. Thi…

"I suspect that what want they’re really pursuing is recognition, either from Facebook or in court, that they were the brains behind Facebook." In my mind, these twins will never b…

I've been using Things since it came out for the Mac and I've been wanting OTA sync since the iPhone came out, but it isn't completely necessary. It is a nice to have feature, but …

Why not put it up on Github so we can help you finish it? I'm currently a full time jQTouch developer, but I would much prefer a working environment like the one you're describing.…

Though I disagree with Arrington quite often, congratulations on the acquisition. He worked his ass off to build TechCrunch to where it is today.