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Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by tmamic »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

When are you going to offer services to entrepreneurs in countries such as Nigeria, India and Philippines?

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by Elidrake24 »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #6

This is absolutely the worst news for Shopify. A very large portion of SMBs want to sell a handful of things without the overhead of maintaining and paying over the top for a e-commerce cms. This plus social media will be a huge win for a lot of businesses

Is it? PayPal has offered the same service for nearly a decade; it even supports subscriptions (I'm not positive if this does or not).

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by lloydatkinson »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

This looks like a much simpler way to create subscriptions. On the back of that connivence will it also support calling webhooks? It would be great to have our backend systems be able to create a user so we can relate a subscription from Stripe with a user without needing to keep querying Stripe for new subscriptions.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by flipnotic »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Can you think of a most-popular use case you've seen payment links used for outside the US? Like, are people selling goods, or e-content, or services? And thank you for making e-commerce more seamless.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by CallMeJim »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #6

This is absolutely the worst news for Shopify. A very large portion of SMBs want to sell a handful of things without the overhead of maintaining and paying over the top for a e-commerce cms. This plus social media will be a huge win for a lot of businesses

Having a huge market player release a feature that seems to overlap with your business can seem like bad news, but hearken! it's not all downside.

The case study here is Facebook introducing the ability to schedule posts in Facebook directly, theoretically hurting Buffer et al.

Take a look at Buffer's publicly-available revenue data [1]. Can you see when this change occurred?

In general, by lowering the barriers to entry into an activity, MORE people participate in it. This makes the general market larger. A portion of those users have a measure of success and end up wanting more advanced functionality, so they move to a tool that will give them more advanced functionality.

In this case: Stripe Payment Links will enable a lot more people to conduct ecommerce, most of who would never have tried. Some of those people will be successful, find that ecommerce merchants need a lot of tools to manage their businesses, and will acquire those tools.

I believe this is good news for Shopify, rather than bad.

[1] https://buffer.com/revenue

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by pc »

tmamic wrote: post #31
pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

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.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by samcgraw »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

Hey there Patrick, congrats on this launch and Stripe's success thus far.

As to your reflections, I'm wondering how Stripe ingests these various emerging patterns around the world (especially as you expand to unfamiliar territory) and prioritize bringing them into your products?

IOW: if N trends at various stages of the adoption cycle are happening 7K miles away, how do you think about placing different bets on each, especially when the cultural moments may be wildly different than, as yet, Stripe understands?

Cheers! SM

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by siruva07 »

pc wrote: post #23

(Stripe cofounder.) While there are lots of antecedents (this is, after all, just a checkout page with a URL), and even though this was substantially inspired by the growth of the no-code ecosystem[0], the thing that's interesting to me about the payment link "space" is that it's a use case that really took off in other markets first -- Nigeria, India, Philippines, etc. I suspect that staying abreast of important new…

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 country/language.

That would be much faster to find and have the added benefit of displaying how many countries and languages Stripe works in.

Re: Stripe Payment Links

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Post by mod »

throxwaway98123 wrote: post #9
zyang wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shopify is fine. They have a nice eco-system of devs and integrated apps. Gumroad should be worried.

Shopify is fine is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. Shopify is the 2008 equivalent in the tech world. Hugely overvalued, no secret sauce (pretty web fronts that are powered by stripe) Shopifys moat is nonexistent.

I sort of agree with some of your points, but I think you're ignoring what shopify is actually good at.

It is one more software offering that lets you build a store online.

You can have a store up in an hour or something. You don't have to integrate software from various places. It's a one stop shop.

That's worth a fair amount.

I'm a web dev, and I've still chosen shopify in the past for side projects. I didn't want the headache of my own stack.

They have competitors, sure, but they're a solid option in the space.

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