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Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#151

Post by rmp33 »

buzzkillington wrote: post #91
anomaloustho wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would love to exchange emails or hear more about how you’re pulling this off as a developer. I’ve done similar, but I’m only aware of a couple ways to hit that amount as a solo dev.

Feel free to share a key in a post. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBF3PxsgBEADaF7Z0y+NqklGe4lqw9a49iYDf4Tc4OF+L6RDMUtFH94QnlWU2 OWfLvtLakevc+Jrs7ROo+u5EdJ6GC5etm9sTQ6rnPwDlPwavF2qVd6+yLlMpaTQs WZB4z0FXTtJYlGlmHt0lrhegFaNDr1pPfQYHzRPAKhzByL032rK+podDm8cqh2Ue 5t2W4ALKeegZpMw5jxv75x+EKXU0sqklqqxCkuGIC/luQQnVf4VuosM8tWlI+A00 HcrMuJk1m8+LSu1d7krZtgA2F0zAgZb2b2BWNBYlWyTeQgruRP9ylbPwY0/m2zdF GJOxU+LmQxAHGUWUwNcHX6…

OMG. Is this an essay? There is X25519 with much shorter keys.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#152

Post by rscherf »

plinkplonk wrote: post #150

Hey Ryan, In the interview you say that you transitioned from dev to design. How did you go about doing this? Any advice for someone planning a similar shift?

I always had an interest in design, designing a lot of websites before and during college. My first job out of college was a Java Support Dev, for a health care company, which was soul-sucking. Troubleshooting production bugs and fixing them was not something I wanted to do.

I volunteered to build the interface of a product we were working on and never looked back.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#153

Post by [deleted] »

buzzkillington wrote: post #103
vscr wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.

Post it and encrypt an email address as the message, will get in touch with you there. There's not much to gpg messages, anyone who can use the command line can use them.

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Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#154

Post by pretentiousPear »

rscherf wrote: post #142
agustif wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One could argue also the contrary, a larger user base might make you more of a target for Stripe to cut-off. Who knows.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. Stripe gets 2.9% regardless of how many users I have. It’s just volume to them.

I believe they mean that by, increasing your user base and revenue even more, you'll convince Stripe that having their own feature/app developed is absolutely necessary. And they might be concerned that you represent a one-person company, single point of failure. They can't just rely on you to be there for them forever.

But I really hope they don't :) Great story. Thank you for sharing and for the inspiration.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#155

Post by rhopm »

buzzkillington wrote: post #103
vscr wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.

Post it and encrypt an email address as the message, will get in touch with you there. There's not much to gpg messages, anyone who can use the command line can use them.

Synthetic biology and interesting career choices. You have my attention, Sir. Please get in touch -

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Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#156

Post by sangnoir »

wpietri wrote: post #76
dvt wrote: post #4

It's interesting how a common tenet of startups is "build products, not features" -- and yet here's a very clear example of a "feature" that can be very successful.

How is "mobile point of sale app" not a product?

"Mobile point of sale app for Stripe" is definitely a feature that Stripe could roll-out any day.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#157

Post by ac2u »

buzzkillington wrote: post #103
vscr wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.

Post it and encrypt an email address as the message, will get in touch with you there. There's not much to gpg messages, anyone who can use the command line can use them.

whoops, forgot to include my key in the message.

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Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#158

Post by wpietri »

sangnoir wrote: post #156
wpietri wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is "mobile point of sale app" not a product?

"Mobile point of sale app for Stripe " is definitely a feature that Stripe could roll-out any day.

For me, that's not what distinguishes a product from a feature. There are a lot of paid Windows apps that Microsoft could roll out any day, but they're still products, by which I mean a discrete, usable thing that people are demonstrably willing to purchase. POS terminals are definitely products.

As a contrast, consider Glympse. They started out in the early days of smartphones doing location sharing. Or Swype, with better virtual phone keyboards. Or Shazam, for music identification. All of them were interesting features with novel tech. None were products, though.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#159

Post by disillusioned »

paulkon wrote: post #17
faitswulff wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stripe is kind of analogous to a utility company here. They're an upstream provider. They don't care about what "infrastructure and resources" you've built. If you break the terms of service, they will cut you off, just like if you don't pay for your gas/electric you will quickly find yourself with a non-functional home, regardless of how fancy it is.

Is Stripe forced to do this because of their upstream provider ToS, Well's Fargo?

Yes. Have had the fun experience of being specifically de-platformed from Stripe because someone at Wells Fargo objected to what we were selling, despite having received Stripe's approval. (This was after several million dollars had run through Stripe, so it obviously caught someone's attention.) Ridiculous, the idea that Wells fucking Fargo is some sort of paragon of virtue.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#160

Post by trickstra »

cmonnow wrote: post #130
trickstra wrote: post #124

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Cut out the middle men, the banks, use Bitcoin and you'll shave even the rest of the fees off.

There are middle men in bitcoin. In fact, there are a million middle men. But you trust those million men, rather than the 10 who run the bank. Anyways, it's about how much money you're willing to spend for trust/safety/risk-mitigation/speed. Cost of item - $100 $100.05 - pay via Bitcoin. In case of fraud, suck it up. $102 - pay via Bank. In case of fraud, complain to bank, who are slow to resolve it. $105 - pay via…

Yes, there are middlemen in Bitcoin, but there are also ways around them, unlike in banking.

And yes, I definitely trust million of men who are constantly checking each other, rather than 10 bankers who found out that sticking together makes them more money.

That fraud argument is a double edged sword because I might be on the receiving side and falsely accused of fraud as any small business hit with chargebacks would confirm. When it's sent, it's sent, that's how it should be, no backsies. In the CC world you never know. Plus there are also escrows if you really need them, except unlike in banking world, Bitcoin escrow won't force you to eat a 30% haircut on your savings account when the bankers fuck up the whole economy while paying themselves big bonuses.

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