Stripe isn't here, and any desire to support their innovation whilst waiting for them to arrive leads to European startups potentially missing opportunity.
It's our responsibility as European startups to get money through doors, and if Paymill is here doing that for us today, then give us a good reason not to use them.
If and when Stripe arrive, I'm sure that many HNers would switch to Stripe as the innovation and support is great. But fact is, they are not here yet... and the only thing that matters is how to process payments in a way that is smooth and minimises our dev time to implement.
If Stripe want our business, then on the day they launch across Europe then they can fight for it.
Until then, Stripe are not here... they aren't even a contender because they are not here. Startups are not going to wait for them on a promise that it will be "soon".
The great thing about the Paymill API is that it is such a Stripe rip-off that if we implement out payment flow based on their API, then we have in fact given ourselves the least painful route to later transition to Stripe.
Implementing Paymill gives us a more likely route to transition to Stripe than implementing one of the incumbents flows (PayPal, MoneyBookers, etc).
So of all options actually available to European startups, Paymill look pretty good.
Stripe isn't here, and any desire to support their innovation whilst waiting for them to arrive leads to European startups potentially missing opportunity.
It's our responsibility as European startups to get money through doors, and if Paymill is here doing that for us today, then give us a good reason not to use them.
If and when Stripe arrive, I'm sure that many HNers would switch to Stripe as the innovation and support is great. But fact is, they are not here yet... and the only thing that matters is how to process payments in a way that is smooth and minimises our dev time to implement.
If Stripe want our business, then on the day they launch across Europe then they can fight for it.
Until then, Stripe are not here... they aren't even a contender because they are not here. Startups are not going to wait for them on a promise that it will be "soon".
The great thing about the Paymill API is that it is such a Stripe rip-off that if we implement out payment flow based on their API, then we have in fact given ourselves the least painful route to later transition to Stripe.
Implementing Paymill gives us a more likely route to transition to Stripe than implementing one of the incumbents flows (PayPal, MoneyBookers, etc).
So of all options actually available to European startups, Paymill look pretty good.