podingx

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by podingx 9y ago
thanks! but the saas business isn't this site. more of a personal project i've been tinkering with.
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by podingx 9y ago
Slow and steady growth through organic search + WOM. Haven't tried ads yet. Growing at $100-150 additional per month.
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Ask HN: Would you borrow money to grow your bootstrapped subscription business?
2 points by podingx 9y ago|6 comments
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It’s Easy to Get Scammed on Venmo(slate.com)
73 points by podingx 11y ago|62 comments
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by podingx 12y ago
Crowdfunding / pre-orders is definitely part of the expected business process for HW startups to launch these days. As the first pre-order platform, Celery has powered successes like Pebble and Boosted Boards and helped them get to the
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by podingx 12y ago
Selling swag via crowdfunding is cool, but I’m surprised not more people are doing equity crowdfunding (or at least it's not as well publicized). Given how much PR is done around big fundraising events, you would think that tech news s
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by podingx 12y ago
The checkout can be added to any page that allows you insert your own HTML/JS.
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The Future May Belong To Hardware Startup Accelerators(forbes.com)
11 points by podingx 12y ago|0 comments
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Celery (YC S12) Raises $2 Million To Help Makers Accept Pre-Orders(techcrunch.com)
38 points by podingx 13y ago|12 comments
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by podingx 13y ago
They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller. Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in ad
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by podingx 13y ago
All the sensitive card information is stored with Stripe
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by podingx 13y ago
No connection. Just happen to have the same name.
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by podingx 13y ago
Glad I could help. Feel free to shoot me an email (in my HN profile) if you have any specific questions.
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by podingx 13y ago
Stripe handles this really well. We've been using them to power the payments piece for trycelery.com. No big gotchas so far based on my experience. If you wait too long to charge, you may run into an expired credit card. I'd say the most im
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Visionaries(medium.com)
5 points by podingx 13y ago|3 comments
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How I Started This Site (My Life Story), Part 2: Late 2008 to Early 2010(mergersandinquisitions.com)
3 points by podingx 13y ago|0 comments
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by podingx 14y ago
Point noted and we'll be fixing this. Thanks for the input.
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by podingx 14y ago
Thanks for the questions. We're working to update the FAQ and site to make all of this more clear. My personal belief is that there's more to commerce than just payments (order management, inventory management, analytics, supporting web and
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by podingx 14y ago
75% of Kickstarter funded campaigns don't ship on time (research by Ethan Mollick from UPenn). Since my money is committed, I'm not sure if that gives me comfort either :) Personally, I feel better knowing that I won't be charged at all unt
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by podingx 14y ago
You could do it yourself, but there's a lot of people who don't have the technical knowledge to do so. This is my understanding from speaking with independent makers and builders (e.g., Kickstarter grads) over the past year. Payments is onl
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by podingx 14y ago
In the case of pre-ordering, Celery doesn't make any authorizations/holds upon the creation of the order. We use Stripe to make sure the card is valid and the charge is processed at a later time. Celery does not store the credit cards and a
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by podingx 14y ago
We're working with Boosted Boards to help them with their pre-orders: https://www.trycelery.com/p/boosted
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by podingx 14y ago
Celery is our play on words (sellery), since we're trying to help sellers with e-commerce
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by podingx 14y ago
Hey Chris, I'm one of the guys who worked on it. The company name is under Airbrite. We built an e-commerce API and Celery is powered off of it.
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How I Started This Site (My Life Story)(mergersandinquisitions.com)
3 points by podingx 14y ago|0 comments
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Airbrite (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to define mobile commerce
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by podingx 14y ago
awesome!