<story><title>Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/unexpected-challenges-of-making-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&amp;gt; Relying on Google and Facebook Identity is not sufficient for some professional users...We like that accounts have mostly real names and verified email addresses,...but I do think the validity of emails will decrease. Takeaway: If you’re creating a sign up flow for your app, you should think about these trade offs between social and email-based auth.&lt;p&gt;This is absurd and shows that they aren&amp;#x27;t thinking from the perspective of their users (even though they have an &amp;quot;I really don&amp;#x27;t want to pay&amp;quot; option).&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons why people might want not to link everything together; in fact this is a reason why many prefer paypal (more transactional) to linking directly to their CC.  This is also especially true for low-intensity sites like this one (you may see the justification for linking Tinder to your FB account, but you likely use this service much less than you use TInder!).&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and again related to low-intensity sites: why should they care about real names?</text></comment>
<story><title>Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/unexpected-challenges-of-making-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gomox</author><text>&amp;gt; 6. Many users prefer Paypal to credit cards:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had the same experience with my customers. I think Stripe is leaving a lot of money on the table by not promoting their brand to end users more. As an informed technical person, I would much rather hand my CC to Stripe than to PayPal, but Joe Sixpack doesn&amp;#x27;t feel the same way. Their impression is that they&amp;#x27;re giving randome websites their CC information, when actually Stripe&amp;#x27;s architecture is very reasonable.&lt;p&gt;If this affected conversions in a meaningful way for my business, I would have a hard time justifying not using PayPal instead of Stripe.</text></comment>