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thanks! but the saas business isn't this site. more of a personal project i've been tinkering with.

Slow and steady growth through organic search + WOM. Haven't tried ads yet. Growing at $100-150 additional per month.

I've gotten an offer for an advance on my recurring revenues ($3k MRR) and would need to repay the loan by giving up 5-10% of my monthly sales until it's paid off. I could use the …

Crowdfunding / pre-orders is definitely part of the expected business process for HW startups to launch these days. As the first pre-order platform, Celery has powered successes li…

Selling swag via crowdfunding is cool, but I’m surprised not more people are doing equity crowdfunding (or at least it's not as well publicized). Given how much PR is done around b…

The checkout can be added to any page that allows you insert your own HTML/JS.

They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller. Most sellers do…

All the sensitive card information is stored with Stripe

No connection. Just happen to have the same name.

Glad I could help. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my HN profile) if you have any specific questions.

Stripe handles this really well. We've been using them to power the payments piece for trycelery.com. No big gotchas so far based on my experience. If you wait too long to charge, …

Point noted and we'll be fixing this. Thanks for the input.

Thanks for the questions. We're working to update the FAQ and site to make all of this more clear. My personal belief is that there's more to commerce than just payments (order man…

75% of Kickstarter funded campaigns don't ship on time (research by Ethan Mollick from UPenn). Since my money is committed, I'm not sure if that gives me comfort either :) Personal…

You could do it yourself, but there's a lot of people who don't have the technical knowledge to do so. This is my understanding from speaking with independent makers and builders (…