4 ms·

I can also do payments myself in "7 or 8 countries". If you can do payments in 100 countries by yourself, please please let me know how! I think a lot of techn

I can also do payments myself in "7 or 8 countries". If you can do payments in 100 countries by yourself, please please let me know how! I think a lot of technologists confuse deploying code with actually handling transactions, charge-backs, local tax rates, etc. Also, just because you are small enough to ignore local tax laws does not mean everyone is. Move fast and break things is all fun and games until you get charged for tax avoidance. Five years ago, it was difficult to comply with tax laws in every US state, county, and jurisdiction (now there are services) -- can you imagine doing this globally?

mattmanser 6y ago
Yes, and if it doesn't need even close to one FTE to do this for 5-10 countries, why the hell would you suddenly need 15 to do it for 100? The other question becomes, that if you're not going to become the next Facebook, why even try? I think you've never actually done this, have you?
- hey_ya_23 6y ago
  >> Yes, and if it doesn't need even close to one FTE to do this for 5-10 countries, why the hell would you suddenly need 15 to do it for 100? Because things dont scale linearly? I mean I can support JSON messages in 5min. Another five minutes and I can support XML. So I should be able to support all the historical mainframe message formats in 5 minutes each right? No...
chasebank 6y ago
But there is a service to handle that for you! https://www.avalara.com/us/en/index.html https://www.avalara.com/us/en/index.html