I got my stripe account cancelled for stripepad.com
It's an Storefront for your Stripe account. After you sign up with Stripe, the "app" showcase the products you have listed in your stripe account. An easy way to sell your products, no intermediaries.
It got canceled because it's a potential source of disputes. So let's pivot!
Let's look on the opportunities, it has been since long ago that I wanted to build an open source project, in fact I started a git repo called Micro SaaS boilerplate, the idea behind was the same, to be able to deploy new products fast without having to care everytime about stripe payments, users, logins, emails, etc...
So if I convert it to a self-hosted package, there will be no problem at all.
Stripe Pad is an open source boilerplate for developing micro saas. It makes it easy to sell the products & subscriptions you already have in your Stripe account. That could be enough to launch and validate new ideas with ease.
Find it here: https://github.com/natzar/Stripe-Pad
The plan is to get what I already have for the stripe connection + frontend.
The doubt is about the back-end language, Php or Nodejs ? Php can be a lot of things, but it is also CHEAP, OPEN, EASY to manage and deploy. I would use Php, like WordPress, but would love to see what you think. Please leave a comment with the language you would use.
Follow me on github: https://github.com/natzar/stripe-pad and the README file.
The prototype will be ready in less than 7 days, next friday v.0.0.1 will be ready to download. I'm starting to migrate different parts of code to the repo. Main components:
I'm really excited about it, because I'm including you (a potential user) from day 0. I know this is something wanted by many. Also I'm excited because you don't need gumroad sell your products, just your stripe account. I love to convert a cease & desist from Stripe team to an open source project I will be maintaining. Also, open source means worrying less about competitors, that's good for once too...
I have to "chill" because I get too excited with the idea of adding a plugins architecture asap, I have to repeat to myself:
Minimum opinionated, open source, simple, from Stripe and for Stripe.
Find it here: https://github.com/natzar/Stripe-Pad