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Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by hkmurakami »

jsingh wrote: post #10

Perfect timing? I just wrote a post on why Stripe is becoming the transaction layer of the internet. http://blog.thinkful.com/post/98406708378/why-stripe-is-beco... Some highlights: - Agility in adopting new technologies Whether it’s Bitcoin, Stellar, or 139 other currencies, Stripe is able to rapidly roll out developer kits and support for new forms of payment and protocols. To give context around this speed, the co…

I was at a Stripe Hackathon as far back as 2012, and afaik they let many OSS projects use their office space for meetups. Unless they've slowed down on the hackathon front (in which case I imagine for good reasons), I don't think hackathons are an unexplored area for them.

Out of curiosity, what do they cover in their office hours? Basically any questions developers may have with their API and platform?

Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by minimaxir »

scrollaway wrote: post #8
jhuckestein wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stripe is so popular with developers because they are laser-focused on providing an excellent experience for the developers. This includes personally responding to every single HN post about Stripe I've ever seen.

It truly is mind-boggling there aren't more companies doing that. Having even one employee dedicated to answering questions for an hour when a thread pops up in a remotely popular place is so beneficial: - It is directly helpful to users and casts a good light on your company - It makes the company look more human and composed of actual people, rather than automatons (think Google) - It provides a way to clear up pot…

The reason more companies don't do that is liability. Saying the wrong thing is 10x worse than saying nothing at all.

Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by adriand »

alexgrist wrote: post #15
xasos wrote: post #14

Stripe is really killing it this year with getting Apple and now Facebook on board with their service

Have you tried using the PayPal API? It's no wonder, Stripe is heaven in comparison.

And PayPal's API is heaven compared to what the banks provide. Here in Canada, Moneris, PSIGate, Beanstream, etc., are so freaking terrible and developer-unfriendly - and customer unfriendly! - it's incredible.

I'm selling a fairly small e-comm web project to a new company that will be doing "adventure tours" right now. They'd been told by their bank to use Moneris (probably Canada's biggest POS company), but of course, they were experiencing all sorts of hurdles getting approved because they were told "travel companies are risky", etc. They couldn't process any payments before their website went live, because Moneris insists on inspecting everything. Etc.

I told them to use Stripe. Like really strongly advised it. And they kept coming back with stuff like, "Okay, so, would you advise that we apply with Stripe now so that they can approve us due to the apparently more risky nature of our business?" And so on. My responses were always, "I don't think that's going to even be a thing you have to think about."

And it hasn't been.

Another Moneris story: I had a customer all set up with integrated payment processing through their gateway. Then we were informed that they needed to a security scan on the server. They outsource this to some other company.

So they run this scan, and it fails - and why? Because the server is equipped with all kinds of countermeasures (firewall stuff, port scan blocking, whatever - that's not my area of expertise). So they tell us that in order for their scan to pass, we need to disable all of the security measures that are currently protecting the server.

You really can't make this shit up. After that experience I swore I would always, always try to talk my customers out of using the banks and to use Stripe instead. And it's working.

Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by squid_ca »

adriand wrote: post #16
alexgrist wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried using the PayPal API? It's no wonder, Stripe is heaven in comparison.

And PayPal's API is heaven compared to what the banks provide. Here in Canada, Moneris, PSIGate, Beanstream, etc., are so freaking terrible and developer-unfriendly - and customer unfriendly! - it's incredible. I'm selling a fairly small e-comm web project to a new company that will be doing "adventure tours" right now. They'd been told by their bank to use Moneris (probably Canada's biggest POS company), but of cour…

I can verify that "POS" does not stand for what Moneris hopes it stands for.

Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by mikegioia »

adriand wrote: post #16
alexgrist wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried using the PayPal API? It's no wonder, Stripe is heaven in comparison.

And PayPal's API is heaven compared to what the banks provide. Here in Canada, Moneris, PSIGate, Beanstream, etc., are so freaking terrible and developer-unfriendly - and customer unfriendly! - it's incredible. I'm selling a fairly small e-comm web project to a new company that will be doing "adventure tours" right now. They'd been told by their bank to use Moneris (probably Canada's biggest POS company), but of cour…

    So they tell us that in order for their scan to pass,
    we need to disable all of the security measures that
    are currently protecting the server.
Ha, what could they possibly be scanning for, malware? The sad thing is that I'm sure companies are doing that.

Re: Facebook Is Partnering With Stripe to Power “Buy” Button

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Post by thmorton »

mikegioia wrote: post #19
adriand wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And PayPal's API is heaven compared to what the banks provide. Here in Canada, Moneris, PSIGate, Beanstream, etc., are so freaking terrible and developer-unfriendly - and customer unfriendly! - it's incredible. I'm selling a fairly small e-comm web project to a new company that will be doing "adventure tours" right now. They'd been told by their bank to use Moneris (probably Canada's biggest POS company), but of cour…

So they tell us that in order for their scan to pass, we need to disable all of the security measures that are currently protecting the server. Ha, what could they possibly be scanning for, malware? The sad thing is that I'm sure companies are doing that.

It's probably a PCI compliance scan. They check for a lot of things like (basic) XSS, CSRF, insecure versions of PHP/Apache, unprotected folders named "admin/", backup files which could leak source code, and so on. It's mostly just for show, but can catch some stupid mistakes. Typically you'll have to whitelist their servers so that they don't trip your firewall/IDS/whatever.
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