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Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Post by podingx »

smallegan wrote: post #26

One of the main reasons I feel comfortable about using Kickstarter is the fact that I know my funds won't get released to the company/person unless enough people "fund" it. Once enough people back it then I'm not as worried about losing my money (probably more psychological than anything) because I feel like there would be a huge uproar if someone tried running off. This doesn't really seem to give me as the "pre-ord…

75% of Kickstarter funded campaigns don't ship on time (research by Ethan Mollick from UPenn). Since my money is committed, I'm not sure if that gives me comfort either :)

Personally, I feel better knowing that I won't be charged at all until the item is shipped. And in the worst case, I would request a refund or issue a chargeback if I felt the seller was being "sketchy".

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Post by shuzchen »

shurcooL wrote: post #25

I'd like to know the following: can't you already do this with Stripe? They seem to use stripe as their backend, so how is this different than me doing this with stripe on my own (i.e. collect charge tokens, charge later)? Or do stripe's tokens expire after a short period of time, I haven't looked into that yet. I genuinely want to know because I'm potentially interested.

No, you can create a customer token and that token will forever refer to the credit card details the user entered. The only way you could consider that they "expire" is if the card as-entered expires, or if the user cancels that card. But even in this case your token still works, it just points to data that isn't valid anymore.

Unless celery does anything else on top of this (auto notifies customers if the cc expires in the interim, provides them a way to update details without you needing to do anything) then I don't see any compelling reason to use it.

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Post by badave »

smallegan wrote: post #26

One of the main reasons I feel comfortable about using Kickstarter is the fact that I know my funds won't get released to the company/person unless enough people "fund" it. Once enough people back it then I'm not as worried about losing my money (probably more psychological than anything) because I feel like there would be a huge uproar if someone tried running off. This doesn't really seem to give me as the "pre-ord…

Hahah on the Celery part. Its a play on the idea of a "seller-y" though.

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Post by steeve »

beaumartinez wrote: post #6

The name "Celery" made me think of the task queue[1]. In both cases though it's a very random name. [1] http://www.celeryproject.org/

Came here to say the same thing. Also, Celery has been around since 2009. So I'm thinking this might not be the best name...

Re: Show HN: Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

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Post by pshih »

generalpf wrote: post #33

Maybe I'm the odd man out, but I am so sick and tired of company names that are absolutely unrelated to their purpose. Celery? Seriously? If you're not a fresh vegetable delivery service, GTFO.

I moonlight to pay the bills by delivering fresh vegetables.
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