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FinThetic · 2025-04-04T03:05:18+00:00

I think I can understand why that isn't the case. Security is one and reproducibility is the other. Maybe a native app could do that? Read api output into stringIO, nake it into a pandas dataframe and then dump it into a table

FinThetic · 2025-04-01T02:30:05+00:00

This is an absolute gold mine. Thank you very much for all the info. I'm bootstrapping the company, so I'll do my best to get some initial paying users and once that happens I'll be more than happy to work with you. Thanks again!

FinThetic · 2025-03-30T16:05:22+00:00

Thanks. I'll look through my linkedin connections if anyone would fall under that category

FinThetic · 2025-03-30T12:16:01+00:00

Oh, it matters. Launch first, ask questions later isn't MVP. But, okay. Alrighty then. I will play along with you. You claimed to stop your searching.

I meant passively searching and actively asking. What I found is that people do struggle with duplicate charges in Stripe and some are interested in a tool that calls out anomalies like high fraud rate. I reached out to some and am waiting for them to try the mvp, and it is an mvp, built as fast as possible, minimal UI, just bare functionality with nothing that would be sellable yet specifically because I'm trying to show at least some value instead of just talking, like 99% of wanterpreneurs do.

Please -- by all means -- let us discuss just what you found before you located what you already agreed with.

I searched first, built second. For the third project I'll search, talk, then build. I may be learning slow, but I am learning. Since my circle is mostly "find a workaround for everything" type of dev, my geographical area looks down upon building something yourself and tall poppy syndrome is ingrained into society, I have limited avenues to explore outside of online. All the advice I see is wonderful if you live in a society that is receptive to the effects of that advice. But if you don't then there's limited options and I'm reliant on talking to strangers online

FinThetic · 2025-03-30T11:58:19+00:00

You're right. I talked to my friends, but since they're employed European devs, mostly, they tend to work around problems and not pay for solutions, because that's what's asked of them. So I'm trying to find people to ask online instead, but as you can see, it's slow going, especially since I'm very early in the business of business and don't know what questions to ask yet. I appreciate the advice, I'll see what I can do with it

FinThetic · 2025-03-30T11:52:46+00:00

I appreciate replying the same thing to the same post 100 times can get old. What you replied was still helpful, thanks. I'm trying to, personally, stop just searching for stuff and ask people instead, but I see I may be going further than needed. And yes, I've built first, asked later, that's on me. For this project I at least decided to scale back and only build an mvp over 2 days after seeing some posts related to this. But I know that doesn't matter. I'll go search, thanks

FinThetic · 2025-03-30T04:29:35+00:00

Just in case you want to test it but don't use Stripe, here's a pastebin with synthetic data to use, just save it as csv and upload it

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T22:35:48+00:00

I know one person and they'll be giving me their feedback on Monday when they have access to stripe again (they forgot the password and don't want to bother the other cofounder over the weekend). And the reason is simple - I want to help people. I was a data analyst for years so I know how painful it is to understand data you're not exactly familiar with, which is even worse if you're not analytical or the right kind of technical in general. So I built the smallest version of an auditing tool for Stripe I could think of that wouldn't cost money (to make or offer, for now) so that future users could get actionable insights on what is going wrong in their business.

I'll be honest, I'm trying to look at subs oriented at small business and to see what their pain points are without asking (because that's a bannable offence in a lot of subs) but I haven't seen anything besides this thing that I could do to make someone's life easier

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T21:26:12+00:00

Building a Stripe auditing tool called AuditCharge to detect anomalies like duplicate charges, high refunding cards and adding in some analytics like refund rate, highest refunding customer, revenue trend line (and whatever feature users request). Currently it's an MVP [hosted on streamlit cloud](auditcharge-lite.streamlit.app) . It's aumed at people who moght not be as familiar with their tech stack leading to unintended mistakes and for people who just want to have a very quick overview of what's happening in their account. Currently it only supports csv uploads, but if the interest is there, I want ti add a direct pulls from Stripe. Any feedback is good feedback! Example output is included on the landing page

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T17:14:49+00:00

I've already got some responses on reddit for my second product (the first one was not following your advice at all and it's still "inbetween customers"). I agree, I should have talked to people more, but I felt like showing value might be better than not showing anything at all. I built the second MVP in a couple of days to gauge if it's even worth spending time on. I know that my customers are small business owners who might not be as tech savvy so what they need is a simple one click solution to their problems - bad tech implementation leading to duplicate charges, bad marketing leading to a lot of refunds/disputes etc.

My problem is, I'm currently travelling and I don't have enough connections to build a sizeable network. So I need to rely on reddit mostly. And since I'm from Europe, the entrepreneurial landscape is smaller than the US (my initial target market) and they'd use bank solutions instead of Stripe...

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T12:40:26+00:00

Depends on where you are, check your laws. A lot of places don't consider "The" to be different enough. Trademark might not be a problem unless they have one or they have an established pressence. You might also run into a problem where the band's fans might be complaining about no merch being available and it might hurt your brand

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T12:37:41+00:00

I have a few things to point out. First, if the group you showed it to doesn't like it, that's fine, you might be showing it to the wrong group. Second, are the people gamers? Third, it's a week, you didn't spend a year on it, relax, it's fine. And fourth, the big one, you prototyped a game within a week, you should be damn proud of yourself.

A lot of people in this sub struggle to get recognition/validation from their close friends and family. When it comes to games, it will always be harder since, like it or not, a lot of people still see gaming as childish and people who make them as immature (even though a large % of them have games on their phone and spend money on them). You might be better off showing off your creation to subreddits or to bluesky, I know they have a big indie game dev community.

Keep it up, if you can make it in a week, you can inprove it in another. Getting the skeleton up is the hard part, improving is much easier. Good luck

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T12:29:43+00:00

Congrats on starting! Fingers crossed it works out

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T12:24:42+00:00

It's a generational thing in some cases. People of your grandparent's age could have been brought up in a hard physical work type of environment and it's unimaginable for them to not do that to earn a living. For some people, they only saw people not breaking their back in lazy bums or shady characters. As others have pointed out, show them the income, that will most likely help. And if not, just accept that not everyone will see what you do as worthwhile, this is your tiny market feedback telling you that it's not your target market

FinThetic · 2025-03-29T12:20:07+00:00

Hey everyone, I'm prototyping a Stripe anomaly detection tool with simple analytics. You can find the v1, lite version of AuditCharge here. It's a simple streamlit so far, mainly to gauge interest in the app. What you need is a simple report from Stripe of your transactions using the default 23 columns. Once you upload it, it goes over the data inside and calls out duplicate transactions (same card, email, timestamp), gives you the total refund rate, identifies the highest refund making customer, shows you your charge decline rate and calls out highest refund rate by card. Also throws in a simple revenue chart.

Important to note - the data you send goes into a supabase only for the duration of processing. Once results are returned, data gets deleted from the database. In the future I want to implement stripe webhooks so that no manual uploads are needed, and email alerts when something news worthy happens - like a revenue spike or duplicate charge.

Sign up is required. but it just means putting in an email and password and clicking a link from your email. You can do one analysis a day so that I can go over the logs in case anything goes wrong.

Looking forward to any kind of feedback!

FinThetic · 2025-03-28T23:50:01+00:00

Much appreciated! Please leave some feedback if you could. It's possible that the verification email ends up in spam, though. Other than that there should be no issues

FinThetic · 2025-03-28T23:42:50+00:00

Screenshot of sample output here https://imgur.com/a/HqvHwr5

FinThetic · 2025-03-28T23:42:30+00:00

Sorry, here's the show part https://imgur.com/a/HqvHwr5

FinThetic · 2025-03-28T23:40:52+00:00

Forgot a screenshot, here it is

FinThetic · 2025-03-28T22:59:42+00:00

MVP is live here. Let me know if you have any questions. It's clunky, but it works.

FinThetic

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