What I find most appealing about this post is his enthusiasm. It's rubbed off on me. I've been unproductive for the past 2 hours watching anime but suddenly I'm excited again.
How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days
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#42From what I've seen, wepay.com is pretty easy to use and has more functionality.
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#43From the article:
> The main thing that surprised me about this build was: it wasn’t a “hack-a-thon”. I wasn’t killing myself and never sleeping. Instead, it was just super normal days. Loved it!
For me, this was the most insightful thing: that the "5 days" were really 5 days, not 10 days compressed into 5 days.
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#44You 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…
* Documentation provided as a monolithic 600 page PDF.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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...
I think the real point he's making is that it shouldn't be free. Stop giving away your work for free. This is what made the iOS market so hard to make money in.
What, you spent 4 months working on that app? Dammit 1.99 is just too much to pay for that. Oh it's free? What the heck are these ads doing here. I hate your ads. Go F* yourself. Seriously. I got a support email today that told me to "Fuck off" because of the ads in one of my free apps. The race to the bottom isn't a good thing for anyone.
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#46I had been thinking about setting up a simple donation page for a website that I run. I saw this post and decided, heck, why not. I had never touched Stripe or (clearly) Spacebox before.
I was done and receiving donations in just about twelve minutes. The longest part of the whole process was logging into my bank account to find my account number.
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#47This looks great, but I feel like everyone is forgetting about wepay. They are exactly in this market and are usually overshadowed by stripe. I'm testing them out soon, and hopefully I'll be a happy customer.
"You must be a US resident to accept payments." My reason not to use them.
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#49Paypal? Or a toy example kind of like Paypal?
You're pointing out the obvious (that this is a 5-day one person project) in a way that's not constructive.
The title is stupid, and titles matter. PayPal is PayPal not because you can send money based on email addresses but because it was the company that figured out how to do it in a way and at a time that won the market. Making a PayPal like website has little to do with why people know the name PayPal, or the company's significance. It's like setting up a toy online book store and saying "How I created Amazon in five days". It's meaningless and stupid. And sometimes things are so stupid they're not worth being "constructive" about.
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#50Hey 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.
Just a bit of feedback on your test forms: Your credit card number doesn't chunk the credit card into segments, making the input really difficult. And the sliding text when fields get focused is distracting.
Also as a question. Does my subdomain have to be nickw.easybill.co or will it be specific to my account? (not clearly stated)