Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
by tomc1985 on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:23PM
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Is it not a problem to people that this many people would be required just for billing? I don't want to grossly oversimplify but at some point people need to start getting judgemental and saying, "no, we have created something too complex. We have to simplify."
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
by groby_b on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:31PM
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You clearly have never worked anywhere close to payments :)
Kidding aside, the regulations around anything that handles money are quite complex, and the liability issues mean that you'll spend a lot of time on getting it right, too.
In theory, payment is super-easy. In practice, any payments solution that is not just a toy eats engineers for breakfast. Stripe is probably one of the leanest ones - and they have 400+ engineers, lean on existing infrastructure, and cover only 25 countries.