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🦸‍♀️ Superhero Early Adopters save over $50 every month: Get 500 fee-free payments every month for life

Hey Hackers,

So here's the story: I'm building Spred as a solo founder. My goal is to build a suite of payment solutions that enable the next generation of businesses to operate even more efficiently than what we've been used to.

Open Banking is the way, but this tech is in its infancy and consumer adoption is only just warming up. However, it's my firm belief that this will change rapidly.

I'm also convinced that to do this well and fairly to merchants and customers alike, this business needs to be and remain independent and fully bootstrapped.

However, that's going to make it hard to play in this space of new and innovative tech, where the risk-takers and gatekeepers are using high entry fees as a way to limit their exposure to bad actors or sudden regulatory change. This is making it infeasible for just any business to start benefitting from Open Banking, especially startups and bootstrappers like us.

So I'm looking for a few Superhero Early Adopters 🦸‍♀️ 🦸‍♂️ who are prepared to commit early to help me get this off the ground and help change this situation for everyone.

Here's the deal: I've got 50 places up for grabs at $100/month and if you sign up now and start sponsoring this project, your $100 will guarantee you 500 completely free transactions using Spred every month you keep your sponsorship going from when we fully launch.

500 payments via Stripe is easily going to cost you $150/month if not a lot more (especially if your average transaction amount is higher than $10).

The main caveat here is that the features for you to benefit from these 500 free transactions aren't ready just yet as I'm only on week 3 of building this product.

To limit the risk to you, I'm setting myself a hard deadline of end of April 2023 to have a robust enough product in place for you to use. So that sets an upper bound on your outlay of $300.

I fully expect to have something that you can use in earnest by the end of February.

But if for some reason, after 3 months it's not in a good enough shape for you to continue sponsoring or for whatever other reasons the project can't go ahead, I will return your $300 completely, no questions asked.

If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to leave a comment. I want this to be clear - THIS IS NOT AN INVESTMENT, IT'S A SPONSORSHIP. There is no offer of shares here, just early and preferential access to the product once it's ready for primetime.

Thanks for your interest and here's to making Open Banking the more secure and cheaper way to pay in 2023 and beyond 🥂

Here's how you can join the program:
https://buy.stripe.com/dR6bMcf8v1n20Za8wx

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    I'm sure this will be a multi-million-dollar business, but...

    ...you could beef up your this use-case of how this works.

    1. Move your YouTube video to the home page.

    2. The headline "Instant Direct Payments" is too vague. It feels like other things do this (Zell, Paypal, etc.)

    3. A better headline would be "cut out credit card fees from your business" or "stop credit card fees from eating your business profits."

    4. It's ironic that you use Stripe as your payment gateway when that's what you do. (Shouldn't you be using yourself?)

    5. Info on each page is below the fold.

    6. I know you're in beta, but you need a roadmap or an example of how this integrates into existing checkouts.

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      Thanks for this awesome feedback!!

      1. Great shout
      2. Agreed, I'll update
      3. 👌🏼
      4. Catch-22... I will when i can accept more than £5 per payment (which isn't possible currently because of Plaid limits and exactly why I'm doing this program now)
      5. Better-designed pages are coming, but I fundamentally don't believe the fold is a problem
      6. More examples are coming soon
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        You're welcome.

        Bottomline: Cool product. Condense down the message:

        ideal customer + pain point + solution

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