[mercwear]

I hope they hold off - going public tends to kill innovation and replace it with bureaucracy

[anovikov]

Almost as if there's a lot to innovate in a "dumb pipe" a payment processor naturally is.

[jacquesm]

At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.

[dewey]

Can probably build it in a weekend.

[malfist]

You let me know when VISA lets you colocate into their rack for processing payments with your built in a weekend vibe coded project.

[dewey]

I guess I should've added "/s" :P

[pestaa]

dewey was joking.

[elictronic]

Management reading a thread like this need the /s.

[xarope]

I know you mean this with a /s, but hey, we just need a proper File Transfer Protocol, an SQL-lite database server, and some simple vibe coded python business logic, no test cases required.

What can go wrong... (/s just in case as well)

[ggregoire]

in 2 hours with claude code

[zer00eyz]

The thing is they have "tooling" to help create their own customers:

https://stripe.com/atlas

They also have a tax product, and a few other things that are in the orbit around payment processing.

Their product offerings are a bit more than just the "dumb pipe" portion of the transaction.