Reading this from a place where a lot of commerce still happens in cash and conversations changes the tone. The opportunity is not incremental optimisation, it is wiring the next layer of the economy into software for the first time.
The saddest thing that has happened to Stripe is that they had to go all-in on enterprise and, as a result, their design has taken a nose-dive. Anyone that's attempted to navigate their dashboard knows how confusing it is to find the exact thing they need.
And, as a developer, it's becoming less and less attractive as a solution, for similar reasons. This isn't a hard knock but rather an whiny opine from a product person who still uses their service but is ready to find another one.
The K shaped economy lives!
I am particularly interested in their Minions project. Will it move into the space along side with Anthropic, ChatGPT, Gemini?
Reading this from a place where a lot of commerce still happens in cash and conversations changes the tone. The opportunity is not incremental optimisation, it is wiring the next layer of the economy into software for the first time.
wild. financed businesses growing 27 points faster. wild
The saddest thing that has happened to Stripe is that they had to go all-in on enterprise and, as a result, their design has taken a nose-dive. Anyone that's attempted to navigate their dashboard knows how confusing it is to find the exact thing they need.
And, as a developer, it's becoming less and less attractive as a solution, for similar reasons. This isn't a hard knock but rather an whiny opine from a product person who still uses their service but is ready to find another one.