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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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They want to confirm your identity.

I get that, but I thought that CAN-SPAM required one-click unsubscribes.

I'm pretty sure you're right. Laws are like traffic lights: nothing is actually physically preventing you from driving through red lights, it's just that you might get in trouble if you do it. "Might" being the operative word. (And there are a lot more traffic cops than spam cops.)

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

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Hey Drew, Site looks great- Hate to tell you though, I beat you to it by a few months :) http://easybill.co Different pricing structure. Driving keyword traffic has been a bit of a challenge. I think that this is a tough value prop for customers. Overall, site looks great, wish you the best with it.

Fyi your site is pretty broken on Nexus 7, maybe on other mobile Chrome browsers too?

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

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This looks great! It seems to make Stripe simpler (since Stripe is essentially simple payments for developers, but non-developers have a hard time grasping all of their docs). If you don't plan on expanding it too much, you might try to talk to the Stripe team and have them integrate :)

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

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> please don't compete on price It strikes me as very sad that in bringing down a monopoly (Paypal), already you are advocating price collusion amongst the new players in the industry...

As opposed to racing to the bottom?

Yes. Its called a competitive market - I don't know how you can seriously argue against such a thing in the modern world, where all of us rely on it (price competition) for basically everything we buy.

Though (perhaps thankfully, given the response to my post) the relatively simple nature of this means that its (if not now then soon) going to be a price-competitive industry anyway.

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

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I clicked the article title in dread fearing someone had turned Stripe the company into a mirror image of everything we loathe about Paypal. I was relieved to realize the OP meant the ease of use part of Paypal, and not all the rest of the baggage that comes with Paypal. I'd have clicked the article with less dread had it been titled "How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days".

This happened.
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