IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

Re:IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe by fictioncircle on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:19PM (#14093045)

Once you hit $20 million in sales ($300-400k), the difference gets very noticeable vs. paying one internal IT and a couple security consultants to audit the work.

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Re:IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:41PM (#14093172)

I don't disagree; its no different than AWS: once you get big enough, its time to roll your own or bring it in house. Until then, lots of money to be made selling shovels.

No one looks at their SMB customers and says "To hell with that market, they'll just leave once they're big enough!" The market for people building from scratch is enormous.

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Re:IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe by posguy on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:03AM (#14095426)

The thing is, you can't roll your own in house, but you can replace Stripe at a much lower cost with a different vendor. They all process cards after all!

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