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Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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Re: Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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As my PayPal hate comment wasn't too constructive, here's some more constructive feedback from someone who has designed a fair amount of landing pages: - Change the heading font to something sans-serif, it feels very default, and look at typographic hierarchy, all those fonts are white and make it look a bit of a wall-of-text. - Safari hasn't looked like that for a long time, get some up-to-date screenshots, your mak…

Thanks for the feedback. The comments make sense.

Re: Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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Nice app! How do you plan to handle the paypal's rate limit?

By staying within the PayPal rate limits :)

We are definitely going to face technical challenges scaling up, but at the moment the rate limits do not seem to be an issue. If you'd like to chat more on the technical aspect of the app, just shoot me an email. (my email is in my profile). I'm always happy to talk tech.

Re: Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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We accept payments via both Stripe and PayPal, and I have to say, trying to find a baremetrics-esque solution for us has been insanely frustrating. We're still calculating LTV, churn, etc. by hand since surprisingly none of these services actually support both, and by looking at the metrics from only one payment source we're missing out on the bigger picture.

So glad to see someone finally made one for PayPal, but without support for other payment systems, I don't see it being able to compete with what's out there. This would only be useful for a company accepting payments from JUST PayPal, which as others have pointed out is probably a rare case these days.

ChartMogul claims to be working on PayPal support, so hopefully that will come through. In the meantime, I still think there's a huge hole in this market for supporting PayPal + other services.

Re: Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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We accept payments via both Stripe and PayPal, and I have to say, trying to find a baremetrics-esque solution for us has been insanely frustrating. We're still calculating LTV, churn, etc. by hand since surprisingly none of these services actually support both, and by looking at the metrics from only one payment source we're missing out on the bigger picture. So glad to see someone finally made one for PayPal, but wi…

That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for - the kinds that helps in finding direction for the app.

I'd love to chat with you about making this work for both Stripe and PayPal (as well as about how you use the metrics in your business). If you are interested, you can sign up at https://www.saasymetrics.com/ or just shoot me an email (email in my profile)

Re: Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

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If your business runs on PayPal, I would welcome you to do everything you can to change that.

Changing is very hard and can be very expensive. You can't just convert paypal to Stripe. You will have to let the customer providing their credit card.

Unless you build your payments on a service like https://spreedly.com. Then, changing from PayPal to Stripe or any of 70+ other processors and gateways involves changing a single token in your code. Once you have a sizable customer base, avoiding lock-in with any one payment processor makes 3rd-party vaulting like that a no-brainer.
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