Etherglade

Web and SaaS

payment processing

SHOW HN2018

88points
37comments
#497of 2,155 in 2018
Top 24%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Idea: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Nice implementation for online payments

    From 1 comment
    • This is a nice implementation. Using credit cards online is actually a little annoying/hacky, despite years of UX work and several billion dollar companies built to solve this…
      crispyporkbites on HN
  • Cool idea for subscriptions

    From 1 comment
    • Cool idea! I'd be intrigued to try it out on an idea or two.
      dfischer on HN

Objections

  • Ethereum lacks chargeback-style dispute handling

    From 1 comment
  • Floating point amounts in JavaScript cause precision loss

    From 1 comment
    • This looks nice. One thing though - you should consider using strings instead of numbers for the amounts. The problem is that numbers in JS are actually floats, and you lose…
      gabipurcaru on HN

Requests

  • Recurring subscription payments

    From 1 comment
  • Auto-generate UI from pasted smart contract ABI

    From 1 comment
    • Can you talk more about your plans for smart contract support? Will this mean I can paste my ABI in and it will auto generate a UI for it? This could be amazing if so.
      crispyporkbites on HN

Questions

  • How chargebacks work with Ethereum

    From 1 comment
  • Why not just post an ETH address on the site

    From 1 comment
    • Wait a minute, why not just put my eth address on the website?
      dvh on HN

Alternatives named

  • Eth-button donation button

    From 1 comment

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