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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
With modern data warehouses like BigQuery & Snowflake, this is no longer true. We at Fivetran get people setup with a BI tool, warehouse and data pipelines in a day. From there, its all SQL with little to no management of the underlying system.
Note: I'm specifically excluding Redshift which requires active management
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
$10/month is two coffees. Not even worth thinking about if you find the service at all useful.
> $10/month is two coffees. What?! Where does a single cup of coffee cost five dollars? For ten dollars, you can brew at least fifty cups of coffee.
Large late at Startbuck in London is £3.4 - which is close to 5 bucks I suppose. If you live in SF, London, NY, 5 bucks for a coffee does not seem outrageous.
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#104This looks great if you're using subscriptions, and put all data you can into Stripe. For most customers though who a) probably don't use subscriptions, and b) probably just make simple charges and don't put all the data they can into Stripe, I can't see much value here.
Certainly for us, ChartIO backed by our own database is far more useful, particularly as we want to join on account data, preferences, registration details, NPS data, etc, which is all in our database.
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#105Your business data at our fingertips ;-)
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#106I'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
I think you answered your own question!
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#107Oh 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…
Hi -- I work on the fraud team at Stripe. Last October we introduced Stripe Radar ( https://stripe.com/radar ) a suite of integrated tools to help you beat fraud. While different businesses see different patterns of fraud, we believe that overall our fraud prevention is now as good or better than essentially every other product in the industry. This partly follows from Stripe’s scale: whenever a card is used, there’s…
Ah machine learning.. I've studying that the last few months. Cant say i got much more wiser on it, as 99% of the examples and explanation out there is regarding classifying images. And not so much about handling structured data. Is there are public information on how ML is implemented at stripe?
And you write that > 80% of the worlds issued cards are in the stripe db because they are once used via stripe? Are you sure about this number?
Can't say im much impressed by this sql interface 'feature'; It's more opening low level access then a feature, but that is just my humble opinion. And it is of course nice for techies having to work with, instead of specific 3rd party APIs.
Will there also be plain (not plaintext but simple) replication interfaces/APIs in the future that clients can run sql slave nodes (mysql/postgresql) with near realtime replication for local querying (privacy) and backup purposes? (and being able to continue to use the data even if stripe would be unaccessible/down)?
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#108@pc do I get a free t-shirt for suggesting the feature 1557 days ago?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
$10/month is two coffees. Not even worth thinking about if you find the service at all useful.
> $10/month is two coffees. What?! Where does a single cup of coffee cost five dollars? For ten dollars, you can brew at least fifty cups of coffee.
Starbucks anywhere in the US, any coffee shop in a large metropolitan US city (NYC, SF, Seattle, Philadelphia).
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#110Is here anything out there which
* connects to a database
* allows a database admin to write a query once (maybe for $50 a query) against your database
* allows the query to have variables and hints in the code
* visualizes the result set as various types of graphs
* for each variable, lets you set values and ranges and steps etc.
* runs the queries and generates reports