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Re: Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative

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I really like the feel to your website. Are there are any websites or apps that you took inspiration from for your design?

Hey thanks! I appreciate that. Nothing in particular; I overhauled the design pretty recently and wrote about it on my blog if you're interested (in my HN bio)

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I really like the feel to your website. Are there are any websites or apps that you took inspiration from for your design?

Hey thanks! I appreciate that. Nothing in particular; I overhauled the design pretty recently and wrote about it on my blog if you're interested (in my HN bio)

Hey I just read your blog post. Im curious now what zoneless used to look like...

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Hey thanks! I appreciate that. Nothing in particular; I overhauled the design pretty recently and wrote about it on my blog if you're interested (in my HN bio)

Hey I just read your blog post. Im curious now what zoneless used to look like...

I think there's a few screenshots in some older posts!

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yeah USDC seems more legitimate but banking risk I wonder if it changed since the silicon valley bank situation where it depegged to something like 80 cents on the dollar and USDT still hasn't published their audit despite KPMG signing off on it.... its these systematic risks that makes me wary but I understand your product now and I think that it makes sense but do you need Stripe approval ? how will i take card wit…

A good way to operate this is to keep using a regular payment processor for checkout, but use this for payouts, so you can still accept cards and enjoy fee savings (there's a prompt on the homepage that will set it up for you just like this). Zoneless is completely independent of Stripe, you do not need Stripe approval or a Stripe account to run it. We have some beginner guides in our docs for handling topping up / e…

Would it work to also charge a modest refundable fee (say $1 per month) from sellers via Stripe or someone else who does KYC, and then use that as a base of "this person has been flagged as known" to solve most KYC concerns in this post?

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yeah USDC seems more legitimate but banking risk I wonder if it changed since the silicon valley bank situation where it depegged to something like 80 cents on the dollar and USDT still hasn't published their audit despite KPMG signing off on it.... its these systematic risks that makes me wary but I understand your product now and I think that it makes sense but do you need Stripe approval ? how will i take card wit…

That's a fair question. I've been building Fiber for it — hold USDC without a seed phrase or MetaMask, email login, bank rails if you want dollars. https://fiber.so

I love your product and looks very slick!

Can I play devil's advocate though?

Don't you think in 1-2 years most banks (NA + EU) will offer 1:1 stablecoin conversions and make this no longer a problem?

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