vantran

Hello HNers, I need your help...

Trying to find the best way to accept weekly subscriptions on our site. Here's the use case. We want subscriptions to start on the same day for everyone, so when people first subscribe, we charge them a prorated amount for the first week, then a regular X dollars/week rate.

We're using PayPal right now. I've recently discovered that for people who sign up using their Paypal account instead of their credit card, we cannot change their subscriptions by more than 20% every 180 days. This is unacceptable for us as we'll need to cancel their current subscription and create a new one, instead of just edit their current subscription profile. I also don't like PayPal in general and want to move away from it asap.

We've checked out Braintree after a few people recommended it. However Braintree's recurring billing doesn't support anything less than 1 month billing period. So we'd have to manually run our subscription charge ourselves. We want to avoid that if possible, don't have too much spare time to monitor that stuffs.

Anyone else you would highly recommend? I haven't used Authorize.net, and am a bit scared of their confusing website...

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Only covers San Francisco at the moment. Any feedback greatly appreciated. :)

Dear HN,

I and a few friends are going to launch a Flexible meal subscription service to help busy individuals and families save time and money from cooking or eating out.

We're working on getting quality chefs / restaurants on board. If you're in SF Bay Area and wants to be in for the beta, let me know.

Some upfront info: A few reasons why you might want this service - If you can't cook or too busy to cook, we aim to be much more affordable than eating out - No more stressing out over what to get for dinner. - Stop eating the same thing all the time. We want people to experience different kind of food. - Stay flexible. As long as the meals aren't already made, you can hold them for another day, in case you want to eat out whenever.

I owe you if you can give your thoughts. I'll buy you a drink if you're in SF ;) 1. Do you have any feedback (positive or negative) on the business concept? 2. Would you pay to subscribe to this service? How much per meal typically?

This is something I've done part time, at the beginning it was to satisfy my own need, and mainly for fun. URL: http://www.xnapi.com/

I've been meaning to ask the YC community if this is something that you'd want to use. If you want, you can try the small demo with Gmap API I put together. Basically it is a website that would help you use web APIs without coding knowledge. Even if you know how to code, it could save you time reading documentation and learning the API yourself.

I know this is a hackers community and you might well feel that you can just work with APIs yourself. I'm asking for ideas on how this can be further developed. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thanks :)