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Comment by Goopplesoft | Hacker News Reader

Which part of this is 'magic'? Serious question. That seems like standard python api client + standard payment processor api.

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For those of us who've used Authorize.net in the past, a simple API client is essentially magic.

I agree. Maybe I'm getting to be one of those old unix dudes or something, but I was doing something that was essentially exactly the same in 2000 using Lotusscript on Domino 4.6.

You gather params, post it somewhere, check out the response, and display it. It gets fancier with age, but it's essentially the same thing.

Take a look at the paypal api.

Also the stripe_token is pretty magic, it lets you make charges to customer credit cards without storing the card details or having to take them to an external payment page.

Have you actually ever integrated with a payment processor before? I have. I agree that this is magical.

I use Stripe on my site https://gauthify.com (first I used a while back, sticky to change)

I use Braintree at my current job.

I used to work for Balanced.

I know payment processors. Its just times have changed and this kind of thing is now quite standard. But 'magical' is of opinion, I was just inquiring what he found magical.

late to the party, but "magic" is the explanation for a dramatic difference between the expected difficulty and the actual difficulty. For example reading my mind to determine my choice of card should involve neurosurgery, EEG and MRI scans and training corpuses - however a 15 year old with a deck of cards can do it - which clearly is magic.

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