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Re: Stripe in Ireland

#11

Post by sleepyhead »

mfen3 wrote: post #8
adamtulinius wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You created an account just to post that? Really. I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.

I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.

Clearly you have not dealt with other payment gateways. Regardless, news about payment gateways is interesting for developers because we have to implement them. And some of us are entrepreneurs and we have to choose a payment gateway to get money from our customers.

If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.

Re: Stripe in Ireland

#12

Post by pc »

mfen3 wrote: post #8
adamtulinius wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You created an account just to post that? Really. I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.

I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.

> I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products.

For what it's worth: I work at Stripe, and we didn't submit this story. If you've any suggestions as to what we should do to make the submissions less annoying, I'm all ears.

I think it's just the case that a lot of people in the various countries tend to care. For example, to take another benchmark, Stripe was a Twitter trending topic in both Ireland and Dublin when we launched this morning: https://twitter.com/TrendsDublin/status/374809599691325440, https://twitter.com/TrendsIreland/status/374806974908477440.

Re: Stripe in Ireland

#13

Post by mfen3 »

sleepyhead wrote: post #11
mfen3 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.

Clearly you have not dealt with other payment gateways. Regardless, news about payment gateways is interesting for developers because we have to implement them. And some of us are entrepreneurs and we have to choose a payment gateway to get money from our customers. If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.

I have implemented a few payment gateways, none were particularly taxing for even a novice developer.

Re: Stripe in Ireland

#14

Post by mfen3 »

pc wrote: post #12
mfen3 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. It's a form of spam. There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.

> I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. For what it's worth: I work at Stripe, and we didn't submit this story. If you've any suggestions as to what we should do to make the submissions less annoying, I'm all ears. I think it's just the case that a lot of people in the various countries tend to care. For example, to take another benchmark, Stripe was a Twitter tren…

Don't spread FUD about competitors. Statements like this are incorrect: "Accepting internet payments involved weeks of setup, reams of paperwork, and bureaucratic approval processes"

Your rates are the same as every other damn payment processor, that's why I fail to see the excitement. I'd also be interested to know if you pay tax in any of the countries your service operates.

Re: Stripe in Ireland

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Post by michaelmcmillan »

sleepyhead wrote: post #9
mfen3 wrote: post #5

Can we stop with the stripe adverts please? It's getting irritating. I'll have to start posting links to Paypal and Sagepay each day to balance it out.

Go ahead and post those links. If the links are interesting and important for developers then they will get upvotes. As a developer in Norway I am very much delighted to see Stripe roll out in Europe and hope to see more Stripe links here on Hacker News!

I could not agree more. We're developing an app at NTNU and we're basically just waiting for Stripe to become available.

Re: Stripe in Ireland

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Post by pc »

mfen3 wrote: post #14
pc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't like companies abusing sites like Hacker News and posting links to their products. For what it's worth: I work at Stripe, and we didn't submit this story. If you've any suggestions as to what we should do to make the submissions less annoying, I'm all ears. I think it's just the case that a lot of people in the various countries tend to care. For example, to take another benchmark, Stripe was a Twitter tren…

Don't spread FUD about competitors. Statements like this are incorrect: "Accepting internet payments involved weeks of setup, reams of paperwork, and bureaucratic approval processes" Your rates are the same as every other damn payment processor, that's why I fail to see the excitement. I'd also be interested to know if you pay tax in any of the countries your service operates.

Sadly, it is not mere FUD for people based here in Ireland. (I agree that it was somewhat better in the US.) Here's what Liam Casey (CEO of PCH International[1]) said earlier: https://twitter.com/liamcasey/status/374690420556443650. He's speaking from personal experience. (I've talked to the engineers who were trying to set up that merchant account.)

And, yes; we charge VAT on our services in Europe; this goes straight to the government.

[1] http://enwp.org/PCH_International

Re: Stripe in Ireland

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Post by StavrosK »

ondrejzabojnik wrote: post #15

Is there any relatively unobtrusive way of accepting payments via Stripe Ireland from other EU country? Compared to establishing business in USA from Europe to be able to use the US version...

Creating a UK company is pretty easy, and you can use Stripe UK... I would imagine that invoicing the company for profits would be fine and wouldn't cost more, but, well, this is a pretty drastic step just to be able to use a web app! Goes to show you how much better than the competition Stripe is.
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