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Moola: Accept credit card payments in ten lines of code.

by teejayvanslyke on 7/16/12, 2:08 AM with 4 comments

  • by _pius on 7/16/12, 3:09 AM

    The landing page looks nice and you could have something here, but you're going to need to do a better job on the marketing.

    The alternative to your product is using something like Gumroad (https://gumroad.com/) or building against the Stripe API directly, which is well-known for being gloriously simple. Your job is to show developers that using your micro-framework is significantly better than doing a simple integration of the Stripe gem into a framework they already use.

    My advice would be to show all of the screens that Moola autogenerates to really demonstrate the added value you're providing. Better yet, create a screencast going from download to deploy in 60 seconds.

    From a technical perspective, I'd also recommend using a YAML file to store the configuration settings in one place, making the process even easier. Good luck.

  • by obilgic on 7/16/12, 3:08 AM

    moola.com ?