Some of the comments there made me despair and never want to build anything, ever. So much entitlement from people who have no idea what someone else's situation is.
It's easy if you're in the US (or the UK) to just throw up a PayPal integration, set up a Ltd company, and start taking payments into a business bank account.
It's not going to be trivial everywhere in the world. Rules for minimum capital and paperwork can vary from 'trivial' to 'traumatic'. Lots of countries have problems getting payment providers, even PayPal - here's an article from earlier in the year about how they're gearing up for their Russian launch sometime this year: http://www.ewdn.com/2013/05/23/paypal-receives-license-from-...
If this was my pet side project, in the UK, yeah I'd take a couple of days to set up a Ltd company and do a PayPal or Stripe or GoCardless integration, but not everyone has it as easy as we do.
These guys have gone above and beyond for a service that they can't easily turn into a business, so now it's pretty much just heartache and woe, and that's just sad.
For sure. There is no need to go all ragey on them. The system crashed, they got it back up, they got totally overwhelmed and are now taking actions best for their lives. No fault there. Best of luck to them. I've already moved on. ;)
It's easy if you're in the US (or the UK) to just throw up a PayPal integration, set up a Ltd company, and start taking payments into a business bank account.
It's not going to be trivial everywhere in the world. Rules for minimum capital and paperwork can vary from 'trivial' to 'traumatic'. Lots of countries have problems getting payment providers, even PayPal - here's an article from earlier in the year about how they're gearing up for their Russian launch sometime this year: http://www.ewdn.com/2013/05/23/paypal-receives-license-from-...
If this was my pet side project, in the UK, yeah I'd take a couple of days to set up a Ltd company and do a PayPal or Stripe or GoCardless integration, but not everyone has it as easy as we do.
These guys have gone above and beyond for a service that they can't easily turn into a business, so now it's pretty much just heartache and woe, and that's just sad.