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Patreon launched securely storing credit cards but without actual payment processing logic

Sam Yam · Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam · Jan 11, 2021 · at 50:52

Sam Yam details the technical state of Patreon's MVP when the platform went live in May 2013.

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“We couldn't, for example we couldn't process all the payments at that time yet. I hadn't hooked any of that up. We could accept your credit card. And so that would get saved, you know, very securely by the way, because we were working at Stripe, but we hadn't built any of the logic to actually handle the processing of the funds.”

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