Were both HN and YC's internal software written in PG's Arc language? If so, will that continue to be the case? If not, what are you using on the back ends?
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For the typical $5/mo SaaS subscription, that's a full 10% just to pay for your checkout system (not including the payment system).
That said, our team is likely not Snappy Checkout's audience as we're devs who can integrate Stripe/Paypal ourselves.
It's admittedly terse (it was part of a presentation Ben Adida gave at the first Real World Cryptography workshop).
However, I'd suggest reading the deck again, and while you do asking yourself, does JS crypto provide any security beyond what SSL does? And, can JS crypto make sense as part of a defense in depth/layered security approach?
That though from Ziptr's 9/24 blog post is unusual: both the ridiculously short time period of 3 days, and the phrase "cannot guarantee."
Also, I find it hard to believe that such a serious serial entrepreneur with such significant backing (approx. $7M) would close up shop so suddenly and unprofessionally. Why burn bridges like this?