I get excited whenever Stripe releases a new product because their demo pages are bar-none the best ever made. The attention to design is very, very nice.
Agreed, although Mapbox comes close imho.
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#32I'm sorry, but I don't grok the utility of this. Can someone "explain this like I am five"?
We are a fairly long-running Stripe customer, and we mirror all transaction data, with the exception of actual card info, into our internal dbms. I am presuming nearly all Stripe customers do this as well, considering how easy API integration is. So what is the utility of this service versus querying internal data - particularly when one can join on data sets that Stripe has no access to?
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#33Really cool! Signed up for the beta, excited to try it. Although at first glance, it looks quite expensive. Having to pay $10 monthly outright even with no charges feels kinda bad. I'm a huge fan of Amazon's free tiers to experiment with; Stripe's test mode is very nice for the same reason. And on top of this, the pricing being per-charge makes it far more expensive for businesses selling cheaper products ($5 subscri…
Yeah I think this just means you aren't their target customer. I'm sure there are people out there who will see this and happily pay hundreds or thousands a month because this solves a burning problem for them.
Stripe sells to businesses, they aren't gonna drive their bottom line off $10/mo.
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#34Pardon my ignorance! Coming from background of building data pipelines. It seems to me like SQL on backend data. The UI is uber cool. What makes it different from any rdbms system with UI? am I missing something ?
Great question. Sigma is more than an rdbms, relational database. Sigma is an application where you can save and share reports with your team without the need to setup a dedicated ETL pipeline and engineering teams. We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself. Hope that helps!
> We curate the quality of the data for you so you don't have to yourself.
If this is done well, that's a huge value. Data cleaning often takes more work than actually figuring out what queries you want to run against your data or running them.
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#35Really cool! Signed up for the beta, excited to try it. Although at first glance, it looks quite expensive. Having to pay $10 monthly outright even with no charges feels kinda bad. I'm a huge fan of Amazon's free tiers to experiment with; Stripe's test mode is very nice for the same reason. And on top of this, the pricing being per-charge makes it far more expensive for businesses selling cheaper products ($5 subscri…
Yeah I think this just means you aren't their target customer. I'm sure there are people out there who will see this and happily pay hundreds or thousands a month because this solves a burning problem for them. Stripe sells to businesses, they aren't gonna drive their bottom line off $10/mo.
Oh no, I'm their target customer. Like I said, I signed up for the beta and I'll happily be paying what it costs. But if you think about this as the "metrics" extension of Stripe (which, as mentioned in a separate thread, was a bit of a missing piece to their offering), the way it's priced is very surprising.
Re: Stripe Sigma
#36I guess this is useful if you have e.g. a bunch of stripe buttons on a static website and don't want to set up a database to do analytics.
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#37I get excited whenever Stripe releases a new product because their demo pages are bar-none the best ever made. The attention to design is very, very nice.
> I get excited whenever Stripe releases a new product because their demo pages are bar-none the best ever made.
So, what does this software actually do? My company uses Stripe and it is not immediately clear.
Re: Stripe Sigma
#38Oh shiny, but does it blend? I mean, Stripe has a great API, great design and this, but is Stripe a good payment solution? No, it is not, especially for sellers. Fraud and charge backs are worse than with PayPal. Despite its many shortcomings, PayPal has at least a much better fraud protection system. This is what matters or should matter when choosing a payment solution. Shiny stuff is great, but if the engine is ma…
Stripe provides fraud protection? I thought they were just a (really awesome, developer-friendly) payment processor and you'd need to put something like Kount in front of them to do your own fraud protection.
The fraud protection is a fairly recent offering.
I've personally had good results with it, but admittedly at lowish volume.
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#39Stripe owns Hackernews. They consistently get their new product offerings to the front page with huge points. Yes they're loved by the Hackernews community (and rightly so) but I wonder if their ability to get their stuff to the front is less to do with it's relevance and more to do with their army of hackernews accounts with tons of karma. Just a thought.
Re: Stripe Sigma
#40Is this based on SQLite?