Flurly has been shut down by Stripe • Hacker News Board

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#11

Post by nickstinemates » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

It is so weird to see multiple typos in form emails sent to Stripe customers.

https://flurly.com/images/stripe-email-1.png

Seriously, does anyone proof read this stuff?

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#12

Post by diazc » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #5

livinglist wrote: post #2

Let this be another lesson of relying on third party software completely.

What exactly do you think the alternative is? If you want to accept payments online, you need to do so through a credit card processor. There is no "self-hosted" alternative.

> What exactly do you think the alternative is?

crypto?

I was able to send the USDC stablecoin to a business accepting crypto with Coinbase Commerce just fine and transaction was very quick.

I can see that even Stripe is getting involved in crypto as well.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#13

Post by simlevesque » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

TLDR: Use Stripe Connect if you build a marketplace.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#14

Post by rvz » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

Stripe strikes back and shuts down yet another startup.

Let this be a lesson to all about why you should not rely on one payment gateway. Stripe is certainly not your friend and never has been and this should be a wake up call to use more than one gateway.

This won't be the last and no-one should be surprised to see Stripe do this. As usual, we now wait for Stripe support to respond here on Hacker News.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#15

Post by jamestimmins » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

nickstinemates wrote: post #11

It is so weird to see multiple typos in form emails sent to Stripe customers. https://flurly.com/images/stripe-email-1.png Seriously, does anyone proof read this stuff?

Agreed. It makes me suspect something fishy about the whole thing.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#16

Post by olliepop » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:35 PM UTC

packetslave wrote: post #10

livinglist wrote: post #2

Let this be another lesson of relying on third party software completely.

Developer of Hacki - a Hacker News client: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki This you?

Unfortunately they are relying on the iOS app store to distribute their app, so safe to say they won't be around much longer due to third-party services etc etc.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#17

Post by mvanbaak » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:36 PM UTC

There's a spelling error in the mail from stripe: 'some information abotu'

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#18

Post by neximo64 » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:38 PM UTC

Isnt stripe doing a good thing. It just seems like what flurly is selling is dodgy. https://flurly.com/p/paymencreditcard

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#19

Post by ilaksh » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

This makes me consider using cryptocurrency for payments on my SaaS. The one I am most familiar with is not popular (instant downvote on HN) so I won't mention it.

But anyway with a cryptocurrency, at least I know that no one is going to "shut down my account" or some nonsense like that.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

#20

Post by simondotau » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 11:40 PM UTC

mvanbaak wrote: post #17

There's a spelling error in the mail from stripe: 'some information abotu'

So it was probably authored by a human rather than ChatGPT.