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https://preview.redd.it/n2a94isd0fuh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc0fafbe29612e716efad7518bc355f9e046e074 There’s a story I’ve always loved about one of the payment companies. In the early days, the founders would sit next to their first users and help them integrate, back when they had maybe 50 of them. For months I tried to get that same company working for my SaaS. Every way I could think of. Every attempt ended in a rejection. Finally I decided to stop applying and actually talk to someone. I explained what I was building, who it was for, and why I was different from what their system saw. I even told them I wasn’t trying to make money from my users’ payments: they keep 100% of every payment, I take 0% commission, and I only charge a simple subscription for the product. And for the first time, they replied with something other than a no. A list of questions. One of them was this: “What will be the online volume you intend to process .... in the first year? (in USD)” I never replied. I understood it. Big companies have regulations and risk teams, and the question wasn’t unreasonable on its own. But I couldn’t ignore the irony. The company famous for sitting beside its first 50 users was asking a tiny SaaS to forecast its volume before the door even opened. So I built around it. Honestly, the easy way was right there: let my users paste a payment link and call it done. A few minutes of work. But if people are trusting my product with their clients’ money, keeping that money safe is my responsibility, not theirs. So I built a manual setup, and a whole system to watch over it. I call it Vajra Health. If something goes wrong, like a payment failing, it stops further bookings until it’s fixed and emails me, the professional and the client, so nobody’s money is left hanging. Every failure I could imagine, I tried to cover. It worked. But I never had full peace of mind. My users still had to connect things by hand, and no matter how secure I made it, the doubt never left. There was always a small tension at the back of my head. So I kept applying to other providers. At first, nothing came back. I kept going, kept changing how I asked. Then PayPal said yes. They listened, understood what I was building, and after a 15-day compliance review, approved my SaaS for merchant onboarding. Now the professionals using it connect PayPal once and get paid automatically. No payment links. No workaround. To anyone else, it’s a blue “Connect PayPal” button. To me, it’s the end of months of knocking on a door that wouldn’t open. I still keep the manual option for the other provider. People who already use it shouldn’t suffer for an infrastructure problem that isn’t theirs. And honestly, I’d still love to work with them someday. Today I’m the tiny SaaS founder knocking on doors. Someday, when I’m big, someone tiny will knock on mine. I’ll be honest. I’ve seen what success does to some people. It gets into their heads. A small part of me is scar

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/9 18:03:08