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anovikovyesterday at 4:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

Almost as if there's a lot to innovate in a "dumb pipe" a payment processor naturally is.


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jacquesmyesterday at 4:50 PM

At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.

deweyyesterday at 4:44 PM

Can probably build it in a weekend.

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zer00eyzyesterday at 5:03 PM

The thing is they have "tooling" to help create their own customers:

https://stripe.com/atlas

They also have a tax product, and a few other things that are in the orbit around payment processing.

Their product offerings are a bit more than just the "dumb pipe" portion of the transaction.