Katsuya
@kn
Does anyone feel Stripe API is becoming complicated? The last time I used it was almost ten years ago, and dev UX felt so good, but now it feels like a pile of features and abstractions that makes it hard to do simple stuff like SaaS subs with add-ons.
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adrienne
@adrienne
Do you read Simon Taylor’s fintech brain food? He had some interesting things to say about about stripe today 👀 https://open.substack.com/pub/sytaylor/p/fintech-food-stripes-difficult-teenage?r=jgz3m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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@worm.eth
The payment rails themselves became more complicated; Europe started regulating 2FA for most credit card charges which changed charging a credit card from a sync to an async operation
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
Stripe feels complicated because crypto is elegant and has set a new base line.
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Sean McCann
@mccann
It’s 10x as complicated but 100x as powerful.
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Leo
@lsn
Ah the product lifecycle
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Arsham
@arsham
on this topic: what are the best stripe alternatives? building payments on Ribbon from the ground up and don’t want to overlook something better
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Yakov K.
@purplenoodlesoop
YES. Very much yes.
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