WePay (YC 09) Celebrates As Engagement Quintuples In Last 90 Days

I met Rich and Bill the evening before their YC interview, at Hackers &#38; Founders.<p>I still remember it very clearly. I totally didn't get their product, but they insisted on buying me a beer, convinced me to create a WePay account, give them my bank account information and transfer $0.25 to test out their system. Anyone who knows my privacy nuttiness, should know that's a friggin miracle. I've been a dedicated WePay customer ever since, and I use their service at least once a week.<p>Out of all the startups in the Valley that I've met, if there's one company I'd love a very tiny piece of, it's WePay. (I'm not hinting, I'm saying that as a vote of confidence)<p>Congrats, guys! Happy birthday.

Any ETA on when WePay is opening up to take payments as an alternative to paypal?<p>I'm sure your engagement will be magnitudes of order higher with that announcement :)

My fiancé and I are using it for our wedding registry, and so far the experience has been spectacular!

We've used WePay to split bills between three roommates for over a year now - it's saves us a huge amount of hassle each month

Can we please decide on what the definition of engagement is? For social apps on facebook it is daily users / monthly users. Here it means "more users using the service". Let's not confuse vanity metrics with relative metrics.

I thought engagement usually indicated a special sort of future-looking partnership, considerable emotional risk, and several K down the drain on a shiny trinket--not to mention a massive influx of stress and worry about how to launch by deadline.<p>Given that, I was scratching my head, wondering if this was a new service whereby the engaged save parents considerable financial burden by bootstrapping their new startup, everyone finally candidly admitting there was, at best, a 50% success rate.<p>Maybe that's an idea for another time ...