It's probably because "we built our castle inside Stripe's kingdom" doesn't sound very cool.

However, if enough people start using this then they might become the new gatekeepers because they could swap Stripe for any other payment processor without the need of the user knowing.

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theturtletalks 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Their website says fully opensource and since it’s a Stripe wrapper, this seems to be an opensource alternative to Stripe Elements. It does require a Flowgrad account and key so it will provide value if other payment processors started using it.

Is there any benefit to using Flowgrad’s react components and hooks over Stripe elements directly?

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fn-mote 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I thought the whole post was about the benefits, namely that Stripe has too many webhooks and doesn’t handle enough of the tax computation.

Did I misunderstand something? Or is this about a different angle?

	▲	theturtletalks 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah that is another benefit, using Stripe Elements and Stripe directly, you have to save the subscription ID and other fields in your database. Flowgrad seems to handle this on their side.

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bossyTeacher 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>However, if enough people start using this then they might become the new gatekeepers

Stripe would likely change their ToS and then revoke their API keys before they could get anywhere near that level of dominance.