Flowglad
Web and SaaS
payment processing
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
16 positive, 41 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 37 critical, out of 96 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 7 for, 23 againstDesign: 3 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good developer experience ambition for payments
From 1 comment
Thank you, that's very kind of you. Funny thing about the site: we deliberately tried to keep it single-page because we spent all of the past year building / testing the billing…
agreeahmed on HN
Objections
Relies on Stripe under the hood, so it looks like a wrapper rather than a true processor
From 2 comments
This is great feedback. We aren't trying to keep it hidden at all. But we could be clearer in how we communicate it. The processing happens through our Stripe Connect platform,…
agreeahmed on HN> Oh, also, you are gateway, not a processor. Technically right now we are a value-added payment acceptance reseller. Eventually we'd like to become a payfac. And maybe with the…
agreeahmed on HN
Fee is high compared to plain Stripe processing
From 1 comment
> 2.9% + 30¢ Very expensive!
swedishuser on HN
Storing source of truth externally is a lock-in concern
From 2 comments
> you will need to maintain mappings of price ids to your plans I think you're overvaluing how much work this is. For years I just created the plans in Stripe and then manually…
hdjrudni on HNThe "storing my source of truth externally" is super fair, and something we plan to address soon by giving you the ability to store this data on your side. So you'll still get…
agreeahmed on HN
Requests
Support bring-your-own Stripe key or existing accounts
From 2 comments
That feedback is very well received, thank you. Currently you set up a new Stripe Connect account to get started. We tried the "connect existing account" flow and discovered…
agreeahmed on HNVery interesting. How do you handle billing with that setup? Are there billing SaaSes that will integrate with that set up, or did you have to build your own? Since we’re the…
agreeahmed on HN
Support Svelte and Vue frontends
From 2 comments
That’s a great point. We started with React because that’s what we knew best and the community we were most embedded in. We have no dogmatic attachment to React. We hope to…
agreeahmed on HNAppreciate the feedback. This work happens in all frontend "cultures" (a phrase I will be lovingly borrowing, thank you). But a payment provider can't really take this work off a…
agreeahmed on HN
Questions
How the funds flow and merchant-of-record setup work
From 2 comments
Yes, we have similar compliance things we consider to Stripe and PayPal. We believe the best experience will only need one onboarding, which would mean we need to process the…
agreeahmed on HNExactly. One of our advisors who previously an exec at one of the card networks says that currently we are technically a "value-added gateway reseller". Doesn't exactly roll off…
agreeahmed on HN
Alternatives named
Stripe Billing
From 2 comments
Stripe Billing handles subscriptions and usage based billing now. Most software products fall in one of those two categories, or sometimes both. As a result, most software…
agreeahmed on HNIt ain't by much, but we're a tiny bit cheaper than Stripe when you consider how much they charge for Billing (.7% for them vs .65% for us). And pretty much every Stripe…
agreeahmed on HN
Adyen and Braintree
From 1 comment
Today our ideal customer is someone starting a project on day one who wants an easy pathway to 1) get stood up ASAP, and 2) start iterating on pricing as they learn what…
agreeahmed on HN