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by nothingbutslide 9y ago
This is /r/iamverysmart/ material. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you don't work in a large team with other developers, maintaining a common codebase.
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
We at Scriber have created a micropayment platform for publishers: https://www.scriber.io/ You can test the user experience of it by browsing our demo publication: http://www.getexplorerr.com/ We've pu
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
Thanks! We're currently in early talks with a few newspapers here in London so will hopefully be seeing it in the wild soon.
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
Thanks for providing the link to our application, I wasn't sure if it would be a faux pas to mention that in our "Show HN" as well!
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
Hi! We decided to take a proper stab at this problem space and are currently at the stage where we would love some feedback from the HN community. The best way for getting a feel for how it works is going to our demo publication and browse
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Show HN: Scriber – Micropayment Platform for Publishers(scriber.io)
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
We looked into using Bitcoin as well, but it proved a bit too hard to use for the average user. We did some user testing with a few prototypes, and it was really hard to make it work as seamlessly as we want the process to be. As for the ma
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
It's an interesting take on the problem, tracking who has bought what - and for how much - through block-chains, opposed to having it stored in a database. I think it would be a bit hard to use for your average user though with the cur
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
Our approach is different than Blendle's and we believe that both of us can happily co-exists. To read articles using Blendle you have to do so through their app, where they act as a curator. They offer a select number of articles that
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
It's partly to lessen the fees being paid for processing each charge, but also part convenience for the user. We actually implemented a prototype top-up system to see how the user experience would be, and everyone who tried it agreed i
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by nothingbutslide 10y ago
The payment gateway will probably be Stripe. They support "auth and capture", which is necessary with our plan to gather a user's micropayments into one combined monthly bill. We might also include PayPal if there is demand f
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Apply HN: Scriber – Micropayment Platform for Publishers
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Elasticsearch with CloudWatch Logs in AWS(medium.com)
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Bastion host setup in Ansible(medium.com)
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“An ISP in Asia is leaking routes to a Tier 1 transit provider”(cloudflarestatus.com)
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