2.9% + $.30 is insane. I can’t believe such a simple product is apparently worth so much.
Even more expensive if you're in Canada and want to accept USD.
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#2721.4% doesn’t sound too bad. I believe chip and pin point of sale is .65% to .85%. What are MasterCard / Visa’s rates for online sales?
Which market are you in? In the US I'm seeing "Starts at 2.9% + 30¢ per successful charge"
I’m seeing the UK rate on Stripe’s site and the comparison is with Barclaycard’s UK POS debit rates.
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Really? What has stripe done in the past to make it feel like they’re being greedy? Besides, nobody is using stripe because it’s the cheapest option.
> What has stripe done in the past Take VC funding. I'm being glib, but honestly - it feels like every large vc funded company is actually some many-layered plan to take over existing markets, and then exploit their new monopoly
That’s exactly the point of VC largely - no really, that’s no secret at all.
VCs want unicorns. To get that big you often have to be the biggest in the space or big enough with enough moat to effectively be a monopoly. Monopoly status is the goal
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Super sleek! A minor feedback for the marketing page. I’m an English speaker currently in Mexico City. The webpage first opened in Spanish based on my location. It only took a few seconds to figure that I could change the language just above the footer, but my UI recommendation would be to put the location/language switcher next to the upper right sandwich (I’m on mobile) in a circle with the flag of my default count…
Just remember that flags aren't languages.
Flags are the most easily-understood way to communicate languages to users, and I say this as someone who is often obliged to pick the flag of a foreign country (often an empire that wilfully starved millions of my countrymen) to get websites in my native language. "Flags are not languages" is one of those pedantic corrections that ends up doing more harm than good.
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#275Off topic: can anyone recommend a Stripe alternative that's a bit less risk averse than stripe is? I'm trying to test the water with a service in the crypto space (it's not about selling/buying cryptocurrency, but about automating some stuff regarding blockchain interaction). I got declined by Stripe based on their terms of service (i.e. don't mention the word blockchain). I'm currently looking into payrexx (however…
I don’t know about their terms of service, but I’ve heard good things about Adyen. They also support more payment methods than Stripe: https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods.
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#276Do you have any plans to open a service in S.Korea?
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#277Do you have any plans to open a service in Korea? I'm looking forward to it.
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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.
Alas the HN echo-chamber ensures these points are pushed out of the bubble. Why is YC funding this sort of shit? https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator...
Unfortunate that you're being downvoted for raising cogent points.
I do think companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Ginko Bioworks, etc. are doing pretty neat stuff. Even if these businesses don't seem groundbreaking, they clearly are, somehow. But the recent batches of YC startups seem disappointingly... competitive. As in the Thiel-ian sense of not doing much fundamentally different from other players in the market.
I wonder if this could be attributed to Paul Graham stepping back from the front lines.
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Just remember that flags aren't languages.
That's a great point. In that case, I'd suggest the first two letters of the language, an "En" for English, an "Es" for Spanish, a "De" for German, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes Not first two letters, two letter ISO codes. There are also complications with dialects, so not quite this simple.
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Isn’t that what NFTs are for? https://www.wired.com/story/nfts-boom-collectors-shell-out-c...
Nope, NFTs are for claiming that you own the “original” digital work. It doesn’t prevent people from copying and sharing it.
So NFTs are basically something like copyright? Only the person having the copyright can sell it.
So why do we need NFTs if we can own a copyright to some digital creation, and can sell that copyright as well?