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With this you'll have your choice of payment gateway…",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},"4911765","jjb123","Among other things: One, wepay isn't international. Two, you have to send users off your site to use it. Three, you can't plug in your own credit card processing if you use wepay…",{"value":56,"source":45,"evidence":57},"Developers building apps where groups pool money",[58,61],{"id":59,"by":53,"text":60},"4912443","we'd love to see that too. as well as uber here in sf. like my co-founder said here (http:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=4912389), we'd love to see people build all kinds of…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"4912451","ajaymehta","Awesome idea - we've been considering a feature at FamilyLeaf that would have required building something like this, but this API would make it much more feasible. 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