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We make a lot of money from subscriptions today. But when you are first starting out making money from advertising is super easy, taking all of several minutes to add to your site.

Getting set up for payments and running a subscription business is very complicated and takes a lot of time people and money. Time better spent perfecting your product early on.

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It isn't as complicated as it used to be, getting subscriptions set up now takes on the order of several hours to a few days.

Assuming you're in the United States or one of the few countries blessed by Stripe.

PayPal works fine when you're starting out, despite all the hate they get here

That's said like a true "pre freeze" user.

If paypal had a mechanism to pre-validate, to avoid having 10's of 1000's of dollars frozen, then they'd be fine.

They get hate because their approach to post-hoc fraud limiting has fucked over thousands of people. Don't dismiss the hate, they earned that hate one customer at a time.

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