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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by samwillis on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:36PM (#31522485)
This so much, Stripes innovation was making it so much easter to integrate a payment api. Paddles innovation is making international tax/vat a complete none issue to new businesses. They are doing everything small business want to make online digital goods sales painless from an admin point of view.
Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by tut-urut-utut on Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:34PM (#31523053)
As someone currently looking exactly at this kind of provider, I’m curious about other Paddle competitors whose price model is only revenue based, without a fixed monthly fee.

Gumroad is another merchant of records, but developer documentation is worse, fees are higher and it seems to support only USD pricing.

Other alternatives requires a somewhat hefty monthly fee, which is a non starter for my use case.

Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by gondo on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:32PM (#31524536)
I am not sure if you meant to imply the opposite, but Paddle's price model IS only revenue based.
Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by tut-urut-utut on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:02AM (#31527795)
Yes, Paddle is revenue-based. I was just wondering about the alternatives.

Something about Paddle that I can't define is putting me off, whether it is website, wording, attitude, "contact me for the quote" and such things makes it feel old school and bureaucratic. I learned over time to listen to my gut feeling, so I'm not gonna use it.

Gumroad looks much more relaxed, although more expensive and lacks many features.

Here in this thread, someone mentioned https://www.getrevin.com, which lets you use Stripe and provides a tax shield merchant of record for 1% on top of Stripe fees, which makes it interesting.

I also found out https://www.lemonsqueezy.com which is priced similarly to Gumroad, but it lacks documentation to be able to compare it.

Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by franciscop on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:30AM (#31526293)
Out of curiosity, how about https://stripe.com/tax? Do they compare similarly? I was considering using Stripe ~1 year ago and my only stopper was exactly international taxes, but it seems like they've integrated tax collection since then?

Disclaimer: I'm joining Stripe in a month :)