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by ignoramous 1614 days ago
> We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and that would be true. We also have a capitalism nerve that hurts when people spend our money gambling. Your credit card number is the thin plastic line between us and chaos.

Could a payments platform like Stripe build a one-click "Freemium powered by Stripe" button ala OpenID, so that these services may free-tier in a friction-free way?
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tptacek 1614 days ago
The real problem here is just abuse, and Stripe has abuse detection products. We have a lot of 2022 goals, but any list we've made in the last quarter would have included "get rid of the credit card prompt" in the top 3. So, yeah, something's going to happen here. We hate the fucking credit card prompt.
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benatkin 1614 days ago
> We also have a capitalism nerve

This article is about providing IaaS for free, and isn't that anti-competitive? The big cloud providers and Heroku do it, and I think it makes it a bit harder for OVH, vultr, hetzner and others who don't provide freebies like this.

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tptacek 1614 days ago
I don't think we lose much sleep thinking about how hard we're making things for OVH, which booked over 600MM $EU last year. But we're flattered that you'd think that. :)
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