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Re: Stripe Sigma

#51

Stripe 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.

You don't need an army of bots if you have a direct line to the people that run the site!

Re: Stripe Sigma

#52
post #32

I'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 - particular…

> I am presuming nearly all Stripe customers do this as well A lot of customers don't in fact do that. I've been working a bunch on dj-stripe ( https://github.com/kavdev/dj-stripe ) and trying to make it work exactly like that, but before that at the very least it's pretty safe to assume that most Django apps using Stripe only had a fraction of the data you can pull from Stripe. It's also only a model you really need…

Thanks for being one of the people working on dj-stripe! I've been following its dev for months, and slowly building it in to a site I'm building, so I'm thankful to the people working on improving it!

Re: Stripe Sigma

#53
I may be a bit dense, but does this include only the data stripe already has, or could it be enriched with, for example, cost data.

Because the payment process alone just doesn't include enough data to create relevant analysis for us.

Re: Stripe Sigma

#56

Stripe 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.

50 comments / at 100 points probably indicates that there's plenty of interest in this product.

Always assume good faith... It makes everyone happier, including you.

Re: Stripe Sigma

#57

Stripe 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.

same with google. i think it is moreso just that a lot of people in the community respect the companies and want to work there. not as much employees themselves.

Re: Stripe Sigma

#58
post #32

I'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 - particular…

A friend of mine is director of business for https://www.franschocolates.com/ , which is a great local Seattle family business that has grown up to be big thanks to a great product (Seriously good chocolate!). They moved to Stripe for payments years ago, and it's helped them out a lot with simpler integration and more data. Sigma looks great for them. They're not a big outfit, they don't have a dedicated engineering3…

Running a data warehouse is a full-time commitment. Tons of real businesses have no software engineers.

This is a great-looking product.

Re: Stripe Sigma

#59
post #32

I'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 - particular…

> I am presuming nearly all Stripe customers do this as well

Err... we push seven figures a year through Stripe, and we don't do this.

Re: Stripe Sigma

#60

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.

> 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.

It looks like a hybrid of Big Query / Looker for your financial data that lives in Stripe, with a lot of help to make it easier for users.

Imagine if you were a small and/or non-technical shop who used Stripe for your payments. This offers a window to produce good looking reports about the business without needing to keep track of that information in parallel outside of Stripe.

They have all sort of pre-run queries for MRR, Payment Methods, etc. which offers _huge_ benefit to those people who can get some great insights for no added work.

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