No, I’m not forced to use Stripe.

I’m looking at mollie now, but I don’t really know of any better alternatives to Stripe. Got a recommendation?

Anything that requires a PayPal account is not an option.

Edit: Mollie won’t let us create an account unless we push >50.000 EUR/mo. Yeah, we’re a small business. We’re wayyy under that limit. So no Mollie :(

I have been, but Stripe support hasn’t been helpful.

Update: one of the plugin authors finally explained it well:

It’s because Stripe doesn’t allow the redirect during the OAuth flow to be dynamic. It must be a predefined value that’s hard-coded into the app.

For security purposes, Stripe redirects a user only to a predefined URI.

• https://docs.stripe.com/connect/oauth-reference#redirect-uri

That’s why Stripe forces you to expose your access tokens to the developer’s servers.

I’d still appreciate if someone with more experience with OAuth than me knows if this is common. Seems like a very bad design decision to require users to transmit their bearer tokens through the developer’s servers.

Can you elaborate? Any idea why Stripe would choose this design?

I think Stripe generally has good security practices. But I just can’t understand this design choice. There has to be a reason…

Please read the question. I am not the developer; I can’t change to keycloak.

You’d need magnets, pogo pins, wire, glue, solder, etc. The list of materials needed is listed in the “Materials” section of this article.

@[email protected] can provide more info

I’ve paid myself nothing so-far. The price just barely breaks-even for the business. There’s one-time costs like a few grand for a CNC’d injection mold and assembly jig, but also certification fees, product boxes, cardstock paper for documentation inserts, printing fees, artist commissions, packaging materials, warehousing, shipping, other logistics fees, etc.

All of this is explained in-detail in “The Finances” section here.

I prefer open-source hardware to be designed using common off-the-shelf items that are easily found everywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the one vendor of a USB-A magnetic breakaway couplers decided to EOL their product shortly after I published a guide on how to build your own BusKill cable. After we published, they all got sold-out, and we had to go to manufacturers for a custom component.

Prices would drop dramatically if we could do production runs (and actually sell) >10,000 units at a time. Currently we only sell a few cables per month. If you want to help, please tell all your security-conscious friends about BusKill :)

Unfortunately, that’s what it costs to make open-source hardware at small-scale.

There’s a cheaper $59 cable available or you could build your own.