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Everyone seems to be asking why this a great strategic fit for Stripe. Stripe can now provide tools to every product that sells metered AI usage and take a cut
by powvans 1mo ago
Everyone seems to be asking why this a great strategic fit for Stripe.
Stripe can now provide tools to every product that sells metered AI usage and take a cut. This isn't about extracting a small percent on the tokens flowing from your coding agents to your model of choice. It's about all the products that are going to come to market and monetize metered usage.
Want to analyze your 2026 tax return? Use VisorAI's Tax Agent and pay only for what you use. Stripe provides all the accounting, payment processing, ships money to vendors, and takes a bit off the top. Trillions of dollars moving from the labor market to the token market? It's $10B per point in fees for every trillion.
- swyx 1mo agosorry did i just read a tax agent ad in a HN comment
- tomhow 1mo agoIt seems that way but I don't think it is. That user hasn't posted any similar promotional-seeming messages in any other recent comments. I believe they were meaning to offer an example to illustrate the point they're making about how Stripe can generate revenue by owning intermediary APIs.
- powvans 1mo agoHa, no I just tried to think of an example and an accountant wearing a visor turned AI came to mind. Pardon my hallucinations. It happens to meat sacks too. Of course, of course, it turns out that name is already taken. Though not anything accounting related. A million monkeys all armed with a million typewriters is quite something.