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Works in Progress has joined Stripe

by mjmasn on 2/18/22, 10:10 PM with 24 comments

• by erex78 on 2/18/22, 11:34 PM

  I hadn't heard about Works in Progress before, but looks like incredibly well researched content. Pretty stark difference between the writing and what you see on something like sfgate.com or cnn.com.

  I find it pretty awesome that the Stripe is successful enough to start branching out from core product into founder hobby areas. The cynical perspective is that this is not core to the product, but I find it kind of beautiful that the founders can do a bit of what is personally interesting to them with their company.

  This reminds me of another incredible resource for deep learning articles: https://distill.pub/, which unfortunately looks like is going silent.

• by radihuq on 2/18/22, 11:54 PM

  Does anyone know Stripe's strategic reason to acquire a content company and/or run Stripe Press? I find it hard to think of the connection here other than a philanthropic effort by the founders.

• by holler on 2/19/22, 12:33 AM

  Had never heard of them but absolutely love the UI of their site, wow.

• by scoot on 2/19/22, 1:29 AM

  "Mens in Black" would like a word about grammar... Although I guess it doesn't matter for an "acquire and expire" target whose name wasn't publicly recognised to start with.