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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by marc »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #92

Hmm, don't think I'm giving a random site (that breaches EU online business laws: must have an irl address for service) my CC info. If you spend 1¢ on posting ":smiley:" every day, won't that cost him about 20¢ transaction costs? Eventual DoS by CC transaction costs?? Love the spirit of it on an intellectual level though.

OP here. You make a great point.

I've clarified payments are handled through Stripe. Hopefully that alleviates at least some concerns.

As for the transaction cost, I actually negotiated a lower fixed fee and higher percentage. Also, if the fees would be higher than the revenue Stripe is smart enough not to process the payment.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by marc »

fouc wrote: post #40
ratsimihah wrote: post #39

The implementation is clean AF and the idea is super fun! Really neat job there! This probably won't take off as-is but I feel like there's untapped potential to be leveraged.

The creator is the same guy that made wip.chat & betalist. I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps building on it and it succeeds.

thanks for the kind words :)

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by rtkwe »

moccachino wrote: post #67
the_duke wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just to save space. Typing with T9 was much more time-consuming that our autocomplete touch keyboards.

But it could be done without looking. Driving home, reach for phone in the other seat, unlock, go to your contact (you remember the phonebook position of your frequent contacts), choose send sms, type the message fairly quickly, send. This could all be done fast and reliable without one look, perhaps one last glance before sending to make sure it looks right.

Even easier to do that now. "Ok Google/Hey Siri send $contact $message" .

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by marc »

raphinou wrote: post #110

I'm curious, is it needed to generate an invoice for every payment received? How is the accounting managed?

Users are charged only once every 24 hours aggregating their usage of the previous period. This way the number of charges/fees/invoices are limited to a relatively small number.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by marc »

vageli wrote: post #133
pietrovismara wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if he waits to collect your payments until they reach a point where fees aren't exceeding them anymore?

Stripe allows you to do that?

Yes. They offer something called metered billing. You report usage, and only invoice once the customer hits a certain threshold or after a certain time period. (whatever comes first).
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