awicklander

It's almost impossible to overstate the disruption Stripe is causing, and this is taking it to a whole other level.

We have an app (http://tulasoftware.com) that yoga studios use to run their business and we're able to compete with some very well funded companies in no small part because of our Stripe integration.

We've been guiding people through the stripe account creation process though, and having them manually enter their API keys. This basically eliminates the need for any manual intervention at all.

So awesome.

I have a product (http://tulasoftware.com) that yoga studio owners use to manage their studios. (Students, class credits, purchases, etc.)

We have a $59/mo plan and a $79/mo plan. The higher one allows them store and charge credit cards.

Or you could get a feedblitz account and actually use a product that will support it's users.

But doesn't a 'hardware failure' imply failure to a specific piece of equipment/hardware? A cascading issue with actual data isn't a hardware failure, it's a software failure.

This is terrible advice. When you decide to create something, the first thing....it's probably going to be crap. It's only by creating, and shipping, over and over again that you begin to learn how to create products. Often times, in fact most of the time, people are going to create a bunch of crap before they finally make the gem that's going to be awesome.

This is false. Non-developers pay a recurring fee for software all the time.

I don't know why everyone keeps referring to sparrow as 'indie' developers. They took funding. When you take funding you're no longer independent.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/sparrow-mac-mail-app/

The free market is a bitch.

Or you could get on Engine Yard and stop caring what Heroku does. That's worked wonders for my business.

Or you could get on EngineYard and stop caring what Heroku does. That's worked wonders for my business.

The announcement is on the platform :) http://blog.brytter.com is on Brytter.

Rachel is not a Groupon employee. I share of office with her in Chicago. She's a wordpress developer, founder of PluggedIn consulting (http://pluggedinconsulting.com) and a great person.

They gloss over their biggest failure; they weren't communicating or interacting with their customers at all.

* http://twitter.com/#!/heroku * http://twitter.com/#!/herokustatus

Apparently the domain was registered in December: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/color-com-was-acquired-for-...

I'm not sure of the timeline as to when the various investments came in. From what I understand though, they had $14 million and then Sequoia got in: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/03/24/sequoia-to-co...)

So, you'd be right, it looks like Sequoia did get in after the purchase of the domain, which could indeed indicate that the domain helped them in some way.

Best rebuttal by far.

Though, one could also argue they might not have been so eager to accept Sequoia's capital if they weren't spending $500,000 on things like domain names.

Yeah, I did buy them, though I'm not sure what I'll do with them if anything. Maybe I'll point them to the color.xxx slide show. :)

My post was written, not from the perspective of someone that just got $41 million. But instead, how I would feel if I invested that money in a company and that's what they decided to spend it on.

Hey trotsky, I'm totally down with people disagreeing with me, and I'd truly be interested in hearing your thoughts/opinion on why I'm wrong. But I think saying that I have "questionable intelligence" is unlikely to end up in the kind of quality discussion & debate hacker news is known for.