[ivyirwin]

Congrats to the Stripe team. I can't believe it has only been 10 years. I actually had to go check my inbox to see when I started using Stripe and it looks like I received my account notification on 8/30/11!

As other have said here, Stripe was one of those things that just made sense. As a web developer I was tired of jumping through the many hoops of authorize.net or praying that people would complete the purchase path on PayPal. When Stripe came out I (apparently) jumped immediately on it and haven't looked back. It is the only payment solutions provider I offer my clients or use on my own projects.

But the larger impact it has had on me is that it gave me that much more faith in HN as a source of emerging technology solutions. I still comb through batch announcements or check out Show HNs to see what's coming, because I feel like there's a good chance another Stripe is launching today. And it's just as cool that Patrick Collison still is involved in HN. Thanks pc and the rest of you all at Stripe!

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Isn't that more than 10 years ago?

[mrgordon]

Not sure about the other poster but I know Stripe existed by another name first as they iterated on the product. I remember being there when Twitter tried to buy the early startup to monetize tweets. They sure missed out on that acquisition. Stripe is now worth more than all of Twitter :)

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Yes, /dev/payments iirc