Hey -- just want to say thanks to the people on HN who've given us feedback and encouraged us along the way. We're building Stripe for the kind of people who read Hacker News, and the suggestions we've received here have generally been the most useful feedback we've gotten anywhere.<p>So, thanks. We're pretty excited about the next few years.
I love their name and I especially love their (old?) logo: <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0012/7313/127313v2-max-250x250.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0012/7313/12...</a>
One thing that YC drills into you is to not settle for B or C class talent. You just have to look at Stripe's team overview to see how talented this company is: <a href="https://stripe.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/about</a><p>Stripe is a lesson on how to build a company from the ground up. Surrounding yourself with incredibly intelligent people tends to have an outcome like this (both product and valuation). Congrats guys!
Awesome product, brilliant people, answered all my emails in less than 15 minutes...<p>I so much want to become a customer that I'm seriously considering incorporating ShiningPanda LLC (or C-Corp) somewhere in the United States for this sole purpose. And probably dissolving ShiningPanda SAS (French equivalent, more or less, of a C-Corp) to reduce the costs, as SAS are pretty expensive to keep around, and it would become largely pointless.<p>Do someone have experience with such an endeavor? The part that I can't seem to figure out is how to pay foreign people, living abroad, from an American company. All the while avoiding double taxation.<p>If someone have references toward a good lawyer / accountant / tax lawyer to figure out all that... My email is alexis dot tabary at shiningpanda dot com
Congrats guys!<p>There's a lot to like about Stripe, but my absolute favorite under-appreciated thing is their name and domain name.<p>Hard to quantify just how much it helped, but I seriously doubt they would have had quite this trajectory with a name like Chargerly.com or even possibly Stripe.io.
I love stripe. I got everything setup and accepting payments this morning for a side project in less than 20 minutes before I had to leave for work... It's such a joy to use.
First reaction: "Good, maybe now they will expand to Canada!"<p>:)<p>Congrats gang. I'm sure it's only partially a manpower issue with international expansion - dealing with institutions only moves so quickly.
$18 million - Wow! Congrats to the Stripe team!<p>This definitely draws a line in the sand for the online payment provider process. Looks like Paypal has been served.<p>Disclaimer: my business is a huge Paypal user, but we've been actively looking at Stripe and put in our plans for 2012 to begin to transition to them. Exciting times!
I've always been extremely bullish on Stripe, so it's good to see this reaffirm my beliefs. Any investor would be crazy not to get in on this.<p>Proud to see more Irish founders succeeding in the US, and as I know they'll be reading here: good job guys, keep it up.
Congrats guys! I just want to say that I <i>love</i> Stripe. You are really changing the game. I love that you are focusing on developers.<p>I wonder what might happen down the road when users make mistakes that put themselves in PCI compliance violation (like posting a form to their server with input names, thus sending the card info). What kinds of effects could this have on the business, their image, and the customers?
Thanks to Stripe, I think that we'll start seeing a lot more weekend/hobby projects that charge for their service.<p>(And I think that's a good thing.)
Someone pls come to India. There is a serious need for good payment processor out here. Anybody who comes up with even half-decent solution wins 75% of mkt-share by default without any sales/mktg/BDM efforts.