@roxanneadam
I always found a platform risk in almost everything i've tried building.
This is damn true.
During this period, plenty of indie hackers were building AI tools on top of OpenAI/ChatGPT.
I can't stress how dangerous that is.
And most of these products are just connected to 1 payment processor, Stripe.
And they're usually marketed exclusively on Twitter.
So it's like a single dependency, built upon another dependency, which is built on yet another dependency.
That's a very dangerous game to play.
For my new product, I'm integrating a minimum of 2 payment gateways, and even more to come.
For revenue, I'll integrate Stripe for commissions but probably use Paddle for monthly plans.
That way I can spread out the risk at least, if something happens somewhere.