Show IH: I made Trolley, a payments platform for validating startup ideas *fast*

I made Trolley - https://trolley.link - if you want to validate an idea, stick a Trolley payment button on any website and take actual money in about 2 minutes using Stripe.

I'm putting it out there starting today - I'd love to hear your feedback....

Longer version:

About a month ago, I made a joke product [1], mostly to see how fast I could create a product and get people to pay me actual money ($25 so far!)

However, I found it surprisingly time consuming to do - Stripe is fantastic, but you do still need some server side code to process the charge against their API and redeem the tokenised payment.

You can't do it with a straight static site.

I figured other people must have this problem too - if you're trying to be lean and test your ideas fast with real people, you don't want any friction.

So I built Trolley - a super simple payments platform that lets you create HTML payment buttons that just work.

You create a product in Trolley, grab the snippet of HTML it creates, paste it into any website (static HTML, WordPress, Netlify... anything you like) and that's it.

All you need is a Stripe account - and you can create one as part of signing up for Trolley.

It seems like Trolley should be useful for bootstrappers like us, lean startup enthusiasts, people who want to do pre-orders (like crowd funding for new products), subscription email newsletters and so on.

If you run any of those things, please tell me if Trolley is the kind of thing that interests you.

[1] ideasarecheap.net (it's just for fun, please don't take it seriously!)