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It's originally from Mahatma Ghandi: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50584-your-beliefs-become-yo...

Pipedrive is pretty cool, especially for getting an immediate status overview

Correct. But availability of cheap-ass shared hosting will be nowhere near that of S3+Cloudfront.

Additionaly, S3 and Cloudfront are extremely cheap themselves. And you get a few nice bonusses (like low latency, everywhere).

Good tips for Wordpress users. Another great option we went for is hosting your entire site/blog on S3/cloudfront. This can be done using tools like Jekyll (https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll) or Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/).

Yes that's true, and many businesses work that way. It heavily depends on the use case.

That's why I carefully added "internationally and instantly" between brackets here.

If you want to sell internationally, credit cards are practically the only way possible. If you ask me, there is no standardized way to allow users to pay via wire transfer (internationally and instantly). Heck, even amazon.com does not support international wire transfer.

I think even consumers are getting used to the fact that ordering online internationally is done mostly via credit cards.

Another question is, how would you handle automatic recurring payments?

First of all, nice product, seems intuitive and easy to set up.

I'm wondering how Memberful distinguishes itself from the competition. I'm talking about https://sellfy.com/ (also supporting Stripe, http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/18/look-who-called-sellfy-scor...) and https://gumroad.com/ (http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/07/gumroad-7-million-series-a-...).

I think Gumroad has been around for a while and is doing really great. They also pay you directly.

Could you elaborate on how Memberful is different? Just trying to sort things out in this field. Would people prefer payment through Stripe instead of directly?

Thanks and keep up the good work.