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We're in delayed fulfilment hence some additional risk (quite some time between selling the service and delivering the service) so I get it

1. They already hold 50% (!!!) of all our revenue in reserve for 90 days for the last months (currently a couple of MILLION USD)

2. We are already in the process of moving away from Stripe but they have until now never pulled something so low. The reserves are already massively hurting us, hence moving to an actual acquiring bank but now giving us 2 days in between Christmas and NY is just insane.

"I really wish people would stop calling forced labour <Robots>". That's what you sound like.

Usage of words and language shifts and changes, get with it or go back learning growls and hissing to communicate.

This is what I love about tech. I have 15 years experience as a software developer but I have no clue what any of these words mean. Amazing you can have such specialised knowledge about something.

> I enjoyed being a part of new startups, those that were still "scrappy." But each time, once that growth-stage hit and managers started coming in to make things "more efficient", that's when I knew that those types of places weren't for me.

I used to be in this position but then I actually became pretty passionate about making sure startups can make it through the growth phase and still deliver.

So funny seeing all these LinkedIn posts show up by pseudo entrepreneurs and startup gurus copy pasting the same shit about how awesome they did by not giving equity.

Only to see the balloon popped with the other side info on HN a couple of days later.

Most people don't care

The best applications I delivered over the last couple of years were in Symfony 2 to 5. MVC with some jQuery sprinkled on top and it did the job. Want API because the company suddenly wants an app?

No worries, add the RESTbundle and now your controllers are returning JSON or XML rather than Twig rendered html.

Around 2014-2015 I was worried that I missed the Angular or Meteor or Knockout or Ember or something..JS boat but then quickly realised my customers didn't care about JS frameworks and wanted business flows automated and solved.

Now I see NextJS or something solving problems Symfony solved 10 years ago and I just chuckle.

Exactly. I think the average person would rather have the nay of hacker news but the yay of Wall Street.

“Open market” yeah right

If it looks like a timeshare and smells like a timeshare, it’s a timeshare. If there’s no secondary free market to sell these “fractional ownerships” it’s just forced rent I can’t resell.

And the merchant get fleeced even more

You can just put a variable where you mention duolingo based on the recent market.

This has been a really interesting thread for us, if anyone commenting here wants to provide some more feedback on QR code based menus and payment at table and have a more in-depth discussion feel free to reach out at hn@pomelopay.com.

We have a product directly related to this which we're always keen to improve - https://www.pomelopay.com/features/table-ordering

Our app recently got banned a full week before being reinstated because of a non-published outdated .apk in an alpha test track that was not used.

To be fair, we cleaned up our artefact management but still. Google is evil.

> In my opinion, LinkedIn is to the social network what the corporate retreat is to professional life. A highly manicured, to the point of artificial, version of our day-to-day existence.

I like this analogy.

Thanks for the follow-up. I definitely think some screenshots of the tool directly on the homepage will work to convey that additional value.

I really want to like it but looking at the pricing it's just insane. As a startup founder no way I can confidently pay 500 USD / months for what seems like a very shiny excel-on-the-web application if in comparison our entire project tools and automation across all teams cost us 220USD pm (ClickUp).

Maybe I'm just missing something in the offering. Congrats on the launch and a very cool landing page nonetheless.

Oracle Cloud if you want to relive the nineties.

Looking at this from an opionated Open Banking side here in the UK, this is a good thing.

I hate it when people hide behind the brand. The reputation of people working there still is damaged, screw the brand.

The bulk of the fee the merchant pays is actually interchange. It goes to the issuing institution (your bank, challenger bank or fintech). The rest goes to the processor (Stripe, Adyen, etc.. and the scheme such as Visa or Mastercard).

Guess she should have used a disposable Revolut card then

Revolut offers virtual and disposable cards. I've been (unethically) using them for these 1GBP / month trials a certain online newspaper offers.

i.reddit.com for me is the sweet spot. If they remove that one, I’m out.

You can get a Revolut USD account with no hassle that supports local ACH transfers and 100.000 usd in AWS credits with a compelling startup story. Stripe atlas has become obsolete already if these are your needs.

Have a look at https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/020515/...

My bet is that this is also why they abandoned their EU plans as most of these practices are illegal / more strictly regulated.

I hope for the founders this ages like the Dropbox comment.

I tried to use it once and it's basically pointless. Having the Air Chat app is a way better way do this (mesh / peer 2 peer bluetooth and wifi chat).

It's been a while since The Guardian wrote a deep-state Facebook article.

This is beyond embarrassing, do something real instead.