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This is pretty great, but I think some people are overestimating the significance of this - PayPal.me has existed for a while and it hasn't exactly killed off small payment providers.
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When are you going to offer services to entrepreneurs in countries such as Nigeria, India and Philippines?
You can use Paystack (which we acquired last year) in Nigeria today. You can sign up instantly for Stripe in India today and request an invite for access for Philippines over at https://stripe.com/global . Working on full availability of both as quickly as we can.
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And they can actually give you lower rates than 2.9% if you pay a higher subscription fee. Stripe won't drop below 2.9% unless you do $1M+ and even then it's not a guarantee.
They provide me with 1.4% + $0.24 for European cards which is a whole lot less than even national banks offer me...
Awesome feature. The first thing that comes to mind for me is fraud. Most obviously, what guarantees are in place that when I go to one of these links, that the seller company is who they say they are? I assume Stripe audits their customers and, for example, reviews the seller logo that's displayed to make sure it isn't misleading. But also, does Stripe give the seller any analytics about who (or how often) people ar…
When a seller creates a Stripe account to use Payment Links, they go through the same review processes (and face the same stringent regulations from card networks and banks) as any seller who creates a Stripe account to integrate our Payments API directly with their website. They will be rejected by Stripe if they violate our terms of service (i.e., if they're fraudulent). Sellers will be able to see if the buying pr…
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What would the compromise be?
Show a pop-up or pop-up like asking if they want to switch to an Indian language. I never switch to another language other than English. It is highly advisable that companies translate to eight most common Indian languages. Or even the top five [0]. People speaking all major languages of India are huge potential markets for companies. Google offers search in nine Indian languages. Amazon provides customer services in…
> Translate to 8 Indian languages
That is not a compromise at all, that's a full solution
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If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation. Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company. The YC Facebook feed has been depressing lately: $6M funding for one of those links-on-a-page startups, $50M funding for a startup that wants to sell Pokemon cards on a livestream. The VCs are fuelli…
Just look at the Show HN - YC batch companies, none of them are doing anything remotely groundbreaking or risky. A ton of them are solving minor workflow problems trying to skim shit off the top.
Why is YC funding this sort of shit? https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator...
meh, maybe this is big outside the us, but people just ask to be paid on Venmo/Cashapp around here. I don't see people wanting to share their numbers so they can get a clickable link.
I think that's where stripe link is useful. "Sending money" is different from "Buying something" from a government standpoint.
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They provide me with 1.4% + $0.24 for European cards which is a whole lot less than even national banks offer me...
... don't they use stripe as their shopify-branded processor?