How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days

You forgot a few critical steps for a full PayPal replacement. Might I recommend:<p>* Set up a Twilio number for billing support. Play hold music even if your office is closed.<p>* Proxy transactions to Stripe using a intermediary server in India to match the latency and reliability.<p>* Randomly multiply totals by 10.<p>* Randomly forget to call the Stripe API.<p>* Setup auto renewals. Even for one time payments.<p>* If a customer has more than 20% in receipts than the previous day, freeze all funds for 190 days.

I clicked the article title in dread fearing someone had turned Stripe the company into a mirror image of everything we loathe about Paypal. I was relieved to realize the OP meant the ease of use part of Paypal, and not all the rest of the baggage that comes with Paypal.<p>I'd have clicked the article with less dread had it been titled "How I made Stripe as easy to use as Paypal in 5 days".

Hey Drew,<p>Site looks great-<p>Hate to tell you though, I beat you to it by a few months :)<p><a href="http://easybill.co" rel="nofollow">http://easybill.co</a><p>Different pricing structure. Driving keyword traffic has been a bit of a challenge. I think that this is a tough value prop for customers.<p>Overall, site looks great, wish you the best with it.

I love the concept and the design. My suggestion to Drew is to post screenshots of forms or – better yet– actual dummy forms on spacebox.io's home page.<p>If I hadn't read the post, the actual website wouldn't have indicated how great this is.

From the article:<p><i>&#62; The main thing that surprised me about this build was: it wasn’t a “hack-a-thon”. I wasn’t killing myself and never sleeping. Instead, it was just super normal days. Loved it!</i><p>For me, this was the most insightful thing: that the "5 days" were really 5 days, not 10 days compressed into 5 days.

You can visit the app directly here: <a href="https://spacebox.io" rel="nofollow">https://spacebox.io</a>

I had been thinking about setting up a simple donation page for a website that I run. I saw this post and decided, heck, why not. I had never touched Stripe or (clearly) Spacebox before.<p>I was done and receiving donations in just about twelve minutes. The longest part of the whole process was logging into my bank account to find my account number.

This looks great, but I feel like everyone is forgetting about wepay. They are exactly in this market and are usually overshadowed by stripe. I'm testing them out soon, and hopefully I'll be a happy customer.

Best of luck with this Drew. Looks like a great simple approach for folks jus wanting to "collect some damn money" - a lot of payment platforms require a much higher bar be cleared to get started, that is what it looks like you ace here (especially with the form builder - brilliant)<p>Your offering will naturally grow an expand as Stripe does so - smart move.

I believe the recently announced Wufoo integration does this as well, but it appears this flow is more elegant.

What I find most appealing about this post is his enthusiasm. It's rubbed off on me. I've been unproductive for the past 2 hours watching anime but suddenly I'm excited again.

This looks great! It seems to make Stripe simpler (since Stripe is essentially simple payments for developers, but non-developers have a hard time grasping all of their docs). If you don't plan on expanding it too much, you might try to talk to the Stripe team and have them integrate :)

Wow...you're sick. You can design, code front AND back end? Not to gush, but that's like a step above the 'unicorn' :O Now I have something to aim for :P<p>(I also took a peek at Lumo...wth man...is there anything you don't do!)

From what I've seen, wepay.com is pretty easy to use and has more functionality.

Are you limited to offering this service to users in the country that Stripe is currently available (US &#38; Canada I believe) or anyone in any country?

How will you deal with chargebacks?

This looks really good.<p>I have a similar service about to launch.

Good stuff! You should consider supporting recurring billing, too.

Isn't this a prime candidate to be out-competed by stripe?

Really well done! Love where the payments space is going.

Paypal? Or a toy example kind of like Paypal?