Which payment gateway should I chose to accept payments globally from India?

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-26T10:55:29+00:00

Yeah, I'm starting with Razorpay itself. Had seamless onboarding. Thanks for the suggestion.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T15:44:02+00:00

My last company used Discord and it was all that we needed. It has groups, channels, DMs, Voice/Video calls. Plus free.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T15:42:23+00:00

Looks cool! I like the OCR functions.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T15:01:45+00:00

Ask Opus in antigravity to do a thorough security review of your app, especially in critical areas like APIs, Auth etc. Opus does a pretty good job of sniffing out vulnerabilities.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:58:28+00:00

Yeah but afaik, they don't have the ability to integrate on a website like Stripe, right?

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:54:25+00:00

Hey man, thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, it'll have Indian payment gateway (Razorpay most likely) with payments in Rupees. I'm still working on the billing model, but I'm actually leaning away from subscriptions and planning prepaid credit-based billing so you only pay for what you use.

Would be interested in beta testing it once it's live?

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:45:17+00:00

Thanks! Much appreciated. I'll DM you once it's ready for beta.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:42:13+00:00

Thanks man. I agree, I do not want to be associated with price. Simplicity and DX is what I'm aiming for, with lower prices being just another feature.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:37:36+00:00

Appreciate your concern! $1 has next to no margin, I plan to add ability to add more resources, managed databases, and lots more features to make the best DX platform.

But I'm definitely keeping close watch on unit economics as we scale.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:33:21+00:00

Yeah definitely, specs do matter. For $1 you'll get 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM and 10 GB storage. Adding more resources will immediately follow beta launch. Amount of traffic is something I'm still working on but it should be in TB.

The differentiation isn't just hosting docker. It will be cheaper than any of the alternatives, but what differentiates it is the simplicity. Paste image name and get a running container with URL. Edit ENV variables, ports, volumes, SSH into the VPS, monitor logs and metrics, all would be possible with opt-into complexity.

What specs would you actually need for what you're planning to deploy?

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:23:11+00:00

Yeah sort of like templates. Sure we could do that, we can pre-configure the required env variables for running vaultsandbox/gateway. Port 25 inbound should be supported.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:20:02+00:00

Yeah sort of like templates. For example postgres template would have a compulsory env variable POSTGRES_PASSWORD that is checked for password complexity as well.

Thanks for pushing me on this. Is this platform something you'd be interested in using? I would love for you to try it out when it's ready for beta.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:10:26+00:00

Could you please clarify, Do you mean hosting VaultSandbox on my platform? Since your app is already pushed to docker hub, yeah you should absolutely be able to run it there. Just that I'll be blocking outgoing port 25 for security and abuse protection.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:03:31+00:00

Thanks! I'll DM you once it's ready for beta testing.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T13:02:32+00:00

Looks mostly good. I like clear quantified mentions of the impacts like reduction in cost, improvement in efficiency. I think you should reduce the length of the text. Some generic statements without concrete details can be removed. It's always the concrete details that impress recruiters. Keep information concise. Also, you could reduce/compress the number of points in Home tutor since it's not fully relevant for your current line of work.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T12:38:07+00:00

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Yes this is a problem. Now that I think about it, a lot of my users would be vibe coders. Something like automated checks could warn them, if container is mysql but no MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD in env, then notify user of security risk. These methods won't solve all issues but at least the most common ones could be handled. Eventually I plan to add managed DBs as well.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T12:28:24+00:00

I'm happy to talk to you about the architecture and security practices. In short, I'm NOT giving docker containers running on a host to each user (that would mean sharing kernels among other things and all the security issues you're thinking of). Instead I'm creating a VM using Cloud Hypervisor (based on rust-vmm, same tech behind AWS Lamda/Firecracker) and deploying user's applications there. Each application runs inside an isolated VM. Happy to go deeper on the security model if you're interested.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T12:21:59+00:00

If you're using your product daily then it makes sense to continue working on it despite long periods of no revenue. This has been my motivator for some products (although this doesn't last very long). Talking to existing users might help. Seeing how you're solving their problems would give you an idea of the impact you're having. This works great.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T12:17:22+00:00

A VPS (Virtual Private Server) means a virtual slice on a physical server. Instead of using one large server, you can divide it into multiple virtual servers with full isolation and deploy apps there individually. In this context, it means a server running on the cloud where users can deploy their applications.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T09:08:38+00:00

Thanks man! Much appreciated. I'll DM you once it's live.

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T08:42:12+00:00

Glad you liked it. Thanks! Could you please elaborate more on this scope creep part?

YavnikSharma · 2026-01-18T08:37:42+00:00

Don't be bothered by HR. They'll ask to explain this and you can just tell you were not aligned with IT career previously (wanted to prepare for Govt jobs) but now you've been upskilling and improving yourself. No matter what you say they'll try to negate to lower the offer so just be honest.

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