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by sshine 1045 days ago
> Usually a system just needs to support a handful of use cases, like integrating with different payment providers.

Building EV chargers is a good dose of electrical engineering combined with talking to dozens of car models and their own particular quirky interpretations of common protocols, which is like designing websites for a market with dozens of unique browser implementations.

In spite of that, it seems half of the complexity is making sure people pay.