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We operate in the public sector.

We operate in the public sector where the number of startups is small. If I shared the vertical you'd be able to narrow it down to 2 or 3 companies.

Edwin broke it down here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32859520

I'm proud to announce that Edwin officially pulled through for us today. All our accounts have been reactivated. There are clearly problems at Stripe. But this kind human is not on…

I'd be curious to listen to this if you have a link?

Ha, not quite. It's more I'm concerned that people considering using my product will see this in the future (hopefully when this issue is resolved) and be wary of doing business wi…

The problem is that my real HN account is my actual name. It'd be like 2 clicks to figure out what my business is.

We're built on Rails which has the extreme luxury of being able to use ActiveMerchant, which does exactly this. The problem is, abstraction falls apart when you're using functions …

This is more a function of the fact that I don't want my business to be identifiable from this post than that it's a sketchy business. You'll have to take my word for it, but it's …

Saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868 from a couple weeks ago and figured I'd share my own story. 3 weeks ago, I woke up to a pissed off customer telling me her payment…