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Show HN: I made a simple tool to sell your services on a subscription basis

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21 pointslakshmananm19 comments

@dang this is spam with a clever title.

@OP so you're providing a wrapper around the stripe widget? I'm confused. What's the value add? This just looks like a marketing page around native stripe services which probably takes a service (application) fee for doing little to nothing.

You don't know unless you see what they are offering.

I made an assumption based off the landing page. If they're offering more than that, then they didn't represent.

I'm not giving up an email address to see that.

It's a no code subscription style billing tool for freelancers.

What in the title did you find misleading?

> Work with clients from all over the world and accept any currency.

This means that you also handle all local tax compliances?

It is not clear what your tool actually does apart from just exposing the Stripe API with an UI.

There is no "features" section on the landing page, only stating benefits which you already get from using Stripe.

Good god, people on here and tearing this apart.

This is not a tool targeted for the typical HN’r. If you’re response to this is: “I’d need to look at the code” it’s obviously not for you.

Without going too deep, I can definitely see it’s uses for the “non-techy” freelance people I know. To slap a simple link onto their squarespace page and be able to collect revenue for services, without adding another complicated service to manage or subscription to sign up for to do it, is attractive for sure.

HN forgets sometimes they’re in a bubble. Most people can’t install a printer right on their computers, let alone deal with an online store. I can see value here.

thank you so much, appreciate the comment.

what does this add on top of stripe?

Nothing. It's SIAAS (Stripe integration as a service).

What are they providing? Stripe is supposed to be simple, I'm not sure how it could be much simpler without losing out on fidelity.

I just integrated it into my web app and although it took longer than I would have liked, they all seem like necessary components.

Using a SIAAS would 1) expose a larger surface area for trouble around sensitive matters 2) cause them to deal with things that I didn't explicitly specify granted that their abstraction will be leaky

As of now this is a no code subscription style billing tool for freelancers.

Also want to add some integration features so you can embed this on your site.

It's not free if you charge processing fees. The fact that these are industry standard for accepting credit cards does not make your "free" claim accurate.

Gotcha, will make that clear in the landing page.

FYI: When users ask their browsers to disable various tracking assets, pictures from twimg.com don't load on other domains.

thank you, didn't know that

How is this different from Chargify or ChargeBee?

It's a no code tool to accept subscription payments, built for freelancers.

I need to see integration code.

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