We've been using Celery for a few months now to accept pre-orders after our Kickstarter campaign ended and it has been a great experience. I've gotten emails from multiple customers complementing us on how easy it is to pre-order. I highly recommend Celery to anyone who wants to create a post-crowdfunding campaign order page or even a DIY Kickstarter alternative.
I seem to recall an article announcing this service incurring some developer ire a while ago due to choosing a name that clearly conflicts with an existing (and reasonably popular) service. Same confusion here, initially.
I don't understand the "finally" proclamation. What is preventing someone from using Stripe (ar just about any payment service, for that matter) in the same manner and saving the 2%?
They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller.
Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in addition to having to focus on sales & marketing and product development.
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We've been using Celery for a few months now to accept pre-orders after our Kickstarter campaign ended and it has been a great experience. I've gotten emails from multiple customers complementing us on how easy it is to pre-order. I highly recommend Celery to anyone who wants to create a post-crowdfunding campaign order page or even a DIY Kickstarter alternative.
Is there a connection between this and the distributed task queue that I am missing, or do they just have the same name?
I seem to recall an article announcing this service incurring some developer ire a while ago due to choosing a name that clearly conflicts with an existing (and reasonably popular) service. Same confusion here, initially.
No connection. Just happen to have the same name.
Maybe they should use the eta kwarg to bill the customers in the future
Calling Celery a distributed task queue is like calling leather seats in a Mercedes a Formula 1 race car driver.
So it very well can be, but it isn't the state of the art? Maybe I should have said "self described distributed task queue."
It's trainer-wheels for people afraid of touching the stuff they're using.
I knew this was coming as soon as Lockitron started the trend with their "SelfStarter" site: https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter
I don't understand the "finally" proclamation. What is preventing someone from using Stripe (ar just about any payment service, for that matter) in the same manner and saving the 2%?
They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller.
Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in addition to having to focus on sales & marketing and product development.
Do they store card numbers?
All the sensitive card information is stored with Stripe
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You really think spamming unrelated threads is going to go over here?
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Just stop. Every post is making you look worse.
Stop.