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How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

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Re: How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

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I believe the recently announced Wufoo integration does this as well, but it appears this flow is more elegant.

Ya, wufoo does it too. But my app is free :) and in the near future will have useful analytics and CSS customization, etc for pro users.

Re: How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

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You forgot a few critical steps for a full PayPal replacement. Might I recommend:

* Set up a Twilio number for billing support. Play hold music even if your office is closed.

* Proxy transactions to Stripe using a intermediary server in India to match the latency and reliability.

* Randomly multiply totals by 10.

* Randomly forget to call the Stripe API.

* Setup auto renewals. Even for one time payments.

* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.

Re: How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

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You forgot a few critical steps for a full PayPal replacement. Might I recommend: * Set up a Twilio number for billing support. Play hold music even if your office is closed. * Proxy transactions to Stripe using a intermediary server in India to match the latency and reliability. * Randomly multiply totals by 10. * Randomly forget to call the Stripe API. * Setup auto renewals. Even for one time payments. * If a custo…

Also require the user to enter his One Time Password to unsubscribe from marketing emails.

Re: How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

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I believe the recently announced Wufoo integration does this as well, but it appears this flow is more elegant.

Ya, wufoo does it too. But my app is free :) and in the near future will have useful analytics and CSS customization, etc for pro users.

Yeah, I like yours better for sure. But please don't compete on price! Charge for the useful analytics and CSS customization. louisck's web developer should use your product for his next $5 video and you deserve to get paid for that.
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