and one of the two I saw hooks into Stripe as part of the service. the other was doing something internationally and also was not directly competitive.
You: Go here, do this.
Person: That doesn't provide anything meaningful in this context.
You: I don't pretend to know...
Then why present said "data point" at all?
I think Swipe is more niche ie: focused on Indian SMBs who may have a very different workflow. Swipe is focusing on WhatsApp powered payments. (See: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2).
Though, you'd think they would compete for the same customers over time.
Why PayPal for it when you can just Swipe it?
In the same vein, BooKing.com is BooQueen.com with a penis. That kind of majestic insubordination can get you a €400 fine and a few weeks of jail time in the Netherlands where their headquarters are located, but I wonder what problems they had with the harsher Lèse-majesté laws in Thailand because of their name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...
>With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere"; its enforcement "has been in the interest of the palace". [...] Even attempting to commit lèse-majesté, making sarcastic comments about the King's pet, and failure to rebuke an offense have been prosecuted as lèse-majesté. [...] The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the benefit of the doubt. [...] The longest recorded sentence was in 2021: 87 years imprisonment, reduced to 43 years because the defendant pleaded guilty.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/here-are-all-the-companies...