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Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by jeremyjh »

diazc wrote: post #12
duskwuff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But what if they want customers to buy things?

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by version_five »

The weirdest thing to me is that this is happening though emails. Are there also account reps or something that call and discuss with customers? Business is business and I understand from the post that this appears to be out of Stripe's hands and consistent with agreed upon terms. It's still pretty weird to me to communicate it in a form looking email message though. I would personally not want to trust large amounts of money with a company that sends me existentially bad news this way.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by livinglist »

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.

No my point is not to rely on a single third party completely

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by pfsalter »

diazc wrote: post #12
duskwuff wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Good luck trying to turn that USDC back into dollars without significant tax implications, and definitely good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by ryeguy »

rvz wrote: post #14

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.

This seems like a decision passed down from the card networks through stripe. Multiple gateways wouldn't necessarily help here.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by brookst »

ilaksh wrote: post #19

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.

I’m assuming this is brilliant humor and not actually proposing crypto as safer for merchants. At least with Stripe you don’t have to worry about someone shutting down your currency.

Re: Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

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Post by livinglist »

olliepop wrote: post #16
packetslave wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If user don’t want to access the iOS App Store they can build the app themselves, I don’t really see what’s your counter argument here. The point I’m making is do not rely on any third party service completely
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