Stripe's awesome. I'm in YC's startup school and used Stripe Atlas to incorporate. I got an email from Stripe, sharing an opportunity to post your landing page and get feedback from Stripe's design team. That Friday I got an awesome teardown from Stripe's design team. The page ( https://nanagram.co ) still has quite a ways to go, but I incorporated most of their feedback and I'm super happy with it. Another cool thin…
Are MMS generally high resolution enough for printing? Don't they get squished to something like 300kb?
Stripe's awesome. I'm in YC's startup school and used Stripe Atlas to incorporate. I got an email from Stripe, sharing an opportunity to post your landing page and get feedback from Stripe's design team. That Friday I got an awesome teardown from Stripe's design team. The page ( https://nanagram.co ) still has quite a ways to go, but I incorporated most of their feedback and I'm super happy with it. Another cool thin…
Are MMS generally high resolution enough for printing? Don't they get squished to something like 300kb?
That was one of the initial things I was unsure of back when this was more of a side project. I sent the first batch of images from my siblings to print locally, unsure how they'd look. Surprisingly they looked pretty awesome even though the resolution of the images seemed low. They're not pro-quality, wedding photos but they are solid and solve the problem for the audience (old people). Carriers have a tendency to downsize images too far, especially if you send 5 or 10 images at once. When this happens, our bot complains at you. The limits of MMS can be a bit annoying so I recently rolled out email support. This also allows us to support enlargements which we can't do with MMS. Still, having a unique number is sweet because SMS is the first option when sharing a photo (on iOS, at least) and it's easy to snap a photo, send it to NanaGram, and close your display without getting sucked into the notifications abyss.
We've spoken Edwin. After our first exchange I didn't hear back from you. The first exchange was great, and unexpected, and maybe it set the bar a little too high. If you didn't have an answer, or had a bad answer, saying anything is better than saying nothing at all. You unintentionally proved my point. It's not like I'm hiding behind this username. I just emailed you and the other relevant parties. Going on the rec…
I'm looking forward to seeing how this one plays out!
Crickets so far from patio11, pc, and edwinwee. I wrote a kind and thoughtful email expressing my grievances and giving them the benefit of the doubt. But I've heard nothing back. I've even left voicemail.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this one plays out!
I don't know if there is any RemindMe! bot in HN, but it would definitely be useful in this scenario.
Crickets so far from patio11, pc, and edwinwee. I wrote a kind and thoughtful email expressing my grievances and giving them the benefit of the doubt. But I've heard nothing back. I've even left voicemail.
It's not illegal for you to invest in Stripe. It's simply illegal for Stripe to try and sell you their stock. If you happen to have personal connections to Stripe leadership, and they haven't hit the regulatory shareholder limit (after which they must start filing disclosures with the SEC), you could legally buy all the Stripe stock you could afford.
Have you seen an example of a regular middle-class person actually doing this? Because in all the stories I've heard, company leadership just say "no, you need to be an accredited investor to do that", and that's it.
Parents and college buddies, mostly. I've never seen anyone who wasn't personally connected to the founders or VCs be allowed to invest if they weren't an accredited investor because it's simply not worth the hassle to the company.
We've spoken Edwin. After our first exchange I didn't hear back from you. The first exchange was great, and unexpected, and maybe it set the bar a little too high. If you didn't have an answer, or had a bad answer, saying anything is better than saying nothing at all. You unintentionally proved my point. It's not like I'm hiding behind this username. I just emailed you and the other relevant parties. Going on the rec…
I'm looking forward to seeing how this one plays out!
Yeah, they have no intention of getting back to me. It's a shame.
You should read a book on this, it's not something that someone can/will explain in a one off paragraph comment.
Any recommendations? Thanks!
I was assigned several in lae school, they wouldn't be relevant to you. Any introduction book on corporate structure and corporate governance would do as a foundation (for your jurisdiction) I would imagine, any specific questions you would have after that would be answered in the followup material in the references of such a book.
Business school and law school students have to buy many books on these topics, and their resale value is low. Any second hand book shop has lots of them, so does abebooks. It doesn't have to be expensive, it's the time you have to invest that 'costs' (in the generalized economic sense) the most.
One minor nitpick - just tried to sign up, and if I was a USA user, then your page would have unhidden the pricing buttons. but as I was UK user, it did not unhide anything (not even a sorry!). As such i was left with the default waitlist boxes, and was confused as to whether I was signing up or not. (it's possible it did unhide the sorry, but it was not clear on the smaller screen... maybe a splash of colour? Perhap…
Thanks so much for your feedback. I just deployed the new US-to-international plans earlier today and haven't had a chance to user test it yet. That experience is totally not the best right now. I'm working on a full-on international release. I'll be reaching out to you to try and convince you to do a user study in exchange for free photos and aim to release mid-late next week.
The little box you type your credit card in is a huge pain in the ass for companies larger and small due to some compliance requirements from financial institutions called PCI. I can’t understate the ass pain, system complexity, legal review, etc etc that this can bring. Doesn’t matter if you are big or small, it’s painful and can be costly. Big companies can pay to handle that, smaller companies can’t and have relie…
You didn’t answer the question. What makes stripe different from Square?
Square is focused on in person card transactions whereas Stripe is focused primarily on online transactions and supports multiple types of payment method (CC, ACH, ApplePay, Bitcoin, etc). Stripe also handles outgoing payments (marketplace, top-ups, etc) and is just now getting into in person transactions.
https://stripe.com/global shows a continent with no lights on. Please come to Africa. The lights are on here.
Hey. Fellow African here :)
What part of Africa are you in? Asking because I work at Flutterwave, flutterwave.com (a payment processing company) and we can definitely help you to process payments.