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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

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aacook ◴[27 Sep 18 02:49 UTC] No.18081799[source]▶
Stripe's awesome. I'm in YC's startup school and used Stripe Atlas to incorporate. I got an email from Stripe, sharing an opportunity to post your landing page and get feedback from Stripe's design team. That Friday I got an awesome teardown from Stripe's design team. The page (https://nanagram.co) still has quite a ways to go, but I incorporated most of their feedback and I'm super happy with it. Another cool thing — Through the grapevine I found out Patrick mentioned NanaGram at an all-hands meeting. I sent him a quick email to say thanks for the mention, not expecting a reply whatsoever, and within a few hours he responded. Stripe's kind of mind-blowing in their ability to not only build a great product but also to serve the community and be human.
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wodenokoto ◴[27 Sep 18 17:28 UTC] No.18086709[source]▶
Are MMS generally high resolution enough for printing? Don't they get squished to something like 300kb?
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1. aacook ◴[27 Sep 18 18:32 UTC] No.18087367[source]▶
That was one of the initial things I was unsure of back when this was more of a side project. I sent the first batch of images from my siblings to print locally, unsure how they'd look. Surprisingly they looked pretty awesome even though the resolution of the images seemed low. They're not pro-quality, wedding photos but they are solid and solve the problem for the audience (old people). Carriers have a tendency to downsize images too far, especially if you send 5 or 10 images at once. When this happens, our bot complains at you. The limits of MMS can be a bit annoying so I recently rolled out email support. This also allows us to support enlargements which we can't do with MMS. Still, having a unique number is sweet because SMS is the first option when sharing a photo (on iOS, at least) and it's easy to snap a photo, send it to NanaGram, and close your display without getting sucked into the notifications abyss.