After reading the HN below comments. It seems a sizeable portion of those comments are "incredible products from stripe" "amazing news" with very little backing content. Did they pay bots to post on HN???
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
I think many developers have used Stripe for payments after dealing with legacy payment APIs like Authorize.Net and have seen how Stripe does it right and makes the process so much less painful, I'd assume their other products like this are as equally well built due to their reputation in the payments industry.
Stripe is a YC company and will always have cheerleaders on HN -- it is also arguably the most successful YC company. One of the few companies who simply wouldn't need to astro turf on HN.
I don't think it's fair to assume that this is astroturfing in any way. Stripe just has a large following of people who like anything they release. Stripe has "fans" just like Apple does.
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