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by stevoski 478 days ago
I see.

I was commenting on the reality of his current site. He has a purchase form, where you purchase for $5, connected to Stripe.

In more detail:

A bad actor with a large quantity of stolen credit card info who finds this site (and eventually, someone always does) will use it to test whether each card works. Small-dollar-amount payment forms accessible without going through a sign-up-and-verify process attract these bad actors.

The point I was trying to make is that this won’t be the low-hassle, easy-to-run product that OP wants it to be.

Which sucks. It really does. The bad actors ruin this stuff.

(I write from the experience of running a pay-once B2C desktop app for 10 years and a B2B SaaS for 8 years.)