[flibble]

Starting to compete directly with a lot of their customers. Big change in strategy.

[bdcravens]

Checkout has existed since 2013.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130113004155/https://stripe.com...

[CharlesW]

How so? Are there checkout-experiences-as-a-service vendors that use Stripe under-the-hood?

[eshyong]

It seems like payment/e-commerce companies in general are shifting towards offering "express checkout" experiences nowadays - Shopify, Paypal, Amazon Pay, are a couple prominent examples. My former employer Affirm was also very concerned about owning the checkout experience/acquiring users up-funnel. It's a smart move, really.

[bobthepanda]

We always hear about how payment networks manage to nickel and dime merchants to produce lots of revenue, so it was probably only a matter of time before other players in the process wanted a piece of that action.

[Ensorceled]

Many SaaS have product pages as a value add-on for their SaaS offering, so competitors, but not in the very limited way you stated.

[codegeek]

yes many.