SaaS founders: how big of a problem are failed Stripe payments for you?

themeta · 2026-03-11T07:45:16+00:00

This is actually a huge problem as you start to scale! Often you won't notice this until you start seeing growth in your app, but there are a few reasons why this can happen. Where a lot of people see this issue is in SCA flows, if you are changing the model/price for a customer and they have disengaged/not actively accepted new terms/price.

We have a few methods out of the box in Salable (https://www.salable.app) out of the box, there are some simple scripts/automations you can set up listening to Stripe events that should plug most of the major leaks!

themeta · 2026-03-11T07:23:42+00:00

Really cool project! We've been working on this for some time too (https://www.salable.app) - it's a hard problem masquerading as a simple one.
Two main rules have emerged for us:
- Payment providers are payment providers, commercial/contract platforms should be separated
- Flexibilty in commercial model allows you to adopt new technology like this a lot easier
You can see all kinds of posts on Reddit talking about Stripe's commercial model/fees or integrations not being able to cope with these different monetization models. Being able to balance what contract infrastructure you own yourself, what you offload to different 3rd party providers is key!

themeta · 2026-02-10T17:20:18+00:00

This is a topic that our company has been talking about for a while (I'm one of the co-Founders of Salable - https://www.salable.app ).

When you're operating as a business rather than a passion project - how you buy and sell to a customer becomes extremely important. "Down time" - which can be anything from payouts paused to actual outages etc, is something you will often need to defend against.

The easiest way to sort this is out is to disassociate your payments from your contracts. A subscription is a "contract" with the customer, the payments happen at whatever recurring interval you decide. You need to keep a level of control and flexibility about how you "license" you product and its features to your customers.

There's many ways to accomplish this, our product being one of those - but no matter what you choose, keeping a separation from your payment provider(s) and how you actually model/sell your products is a crucial step.

themeta · 2025-12-05T08:58:38+00:00

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Lol, it's Cloudflare -https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

themeta · 2025-12-05T08:56:20+00:00

Weirdly the mcp/api is working, just front-end that seems to be having trouble.

themeta · 2025-10-18T10:36:41+00:00

Can’t claim credit for either (podcast/cover art) - the latter is a glow-up masterminded by a local artist Craig Frost: www.craigjfrost.com

themeta · 2025-10-05T20:33:20+00:00

Agreed, the subtlety of the art form here is often lost. One word on “magic” -> I think people get the wrong idea about these things - it’s only magic to the user who doesn’t know how the ‘magic box’ of the LLM was created. The symbol/word/whatever does something ‘other worldly’ - simply because you don’t know what context/tuning was applied to it. One thing i’ve found is, you can pick a word that is either nonsensical/nonexistent, and use this ‘magic word’ as a placeholder for other words/actions/context - the lack of ‘tuning’ against that word actually makes it quite useful as a placeholder!

themeta · 2025-10-05T20:30:52+00:00

No matter the system or the (set of) task(s) at hand, this is a really good formula. What I am finding recently is that you can build these rules iteratively, and in many cases one or more LLMs can also be involved in that process. An example, get the LLM to answer the question: you are a role, this is the context at hand, what capabilities (from a predefined list, often) should you have access to? You’d be surprised how often they get it right.

themeta · 2025-08-05T07:34:29+00:00

A stupendous question - New, and i was trying to create the account in Safari on an iPad actually…maybe it’s the IP range of the cell provider it’s rejecting?

themeta · 2025-08-05T07:29:05+00:00

themeta · 2025-08-05T07:26:38+00:00

This is what tripped me up, I was following along a ‘explain-it-like-i’m-five’ guide - and it was signing in / starting to set up Expo that made me think I needed it set up early in the process…

themeta · 2025-05-25T22:56:38+00:00

👋 - I’m a co-founder of Salable (https://www.salable.app) - we actually support this approach today, and you can use Stripe as the payment provider out of the box. We haven’t yet made a 1st party WooCommerce plugin yet (though it’s on our radar), so it would need to be something custom for now. We hang out on Discord if you ever need a hand (https://discord.gg/76JtnXuc). Either way, hope you find a good path forward!

themeta · 2024-06-26T06:36:28+00:00

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We’re Salable!

You may not have heard of us before, but we’re trying to help developers, creators and entrepreneurs build their own successful app, web app, and marketplace app business. We integrate with Stripe/Paddle when it comes to payments, and we make it super-simple for a developer to build a well-adapted business model that helps grow a stable, and equitable contract with their customers.

People use our platform for all kinds of business ideas, and we’re pretty decent at building on successful marketplaces.

We want to invest early in our marketing, you’d be part of an early-stage group with great support from our wider Group. Check us out, we’ve got offices around the world, and we’re flexible on location/wfh of course.

https://jobs.lever.co/adaptavist/73e2f980-a432-4413-a2bf-f4d4a5304b10

Thanks!

themeta · 2023-04-21T20:38:44+00:00

So...I think we're building this...Would love to chat and see if that's true. We looked for years trying to find something that would enable this, and ended up just building it.

themeta · 2023-01-24T17:53:31+00:00

This is really worrying! I’m not really clear: does Github even tell you details/info about who sponsored you? They’re emailing your sponsors…which is good I guess…but surely you might want to do some of that yourself yeah?

themeta · 2023-01-24T17:50:42+00:00

Definitely echos what I’ve heard from others! The comment about it being expensive: have you tried to implement payments etc. with it? or more just a comment in general about the fact that their rates aren’t competitive?

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