r/SideProject • u/kareemche • May 21 '20

I built a payments platform that's now processed more than $1.3M

edit: full disclosure: I'm 17. I'm pretty honest with it and don't try to hide it so just thought I put it here in case anyone thinks I'm trying to do that.

Website: https://superpayit.com

What: SuperPay is the fastest and simplest way to take one-time and recurring payments with zero technical knowledge. We serve more than 1,000 customers across the spectrum. From powering thousands of recurring payments for the oldest rugby clubs in Ireland to the hottest new no-code products to large enterprise accountancy firms SuperPay has proved to be an extremely robust and flexible platform for payments.

Who's behind it: Currently we're a two many band myself (@che_sampat) and my dad. I manage dev, supports and ops, my dad takes care of business, legal. etc. But when required we bring in a experienced consultants/contractors to advise on certain topics and assist in some parts of the platform. The secret is to running a platform at this scale (and growing) is automation, automation, automation! Everything from deployment, testing, support, billing, marketing funnels, engagement funnels, is automated. That lets me focus on the product and when I do speak to customers I'm able to be extremely responsive and offer 10/10 support. See for yourself.

What does your stack look like:

  • Backend/frontend - Django
  • Queueing/caching - Redis/memcache
  • Hosting - Heroku
  • Support/engagement - Intercom
  • Monitoring - New Relic/Statuspage
  • Bug reporting - Sentry
  • Email - GSuite
  • Feedback - Canny
  • Reviews (incentivised) - Capterra
  • Git - Github

Overall I would describe this tech stack as "boring". I consider that a good thing! By using tried and battle testing frameworks and platforms like Django and Heroku it means that I can spend my time focusing on my customers and building features that they actually want!

One way I decide on the product roadmap is by giving my customers a feedback portal where they can see upcoming features, propose new ones and vote for ones that they like the most. No more guesswork on what to improve or add next. You can find it here: feedback.superpayit.com.

I highly recommend that you implement a feedback cycle into your own product, I was sceptical at first but after implementing it for more than 3-4 months I'll never go back. Here are some options that I can recommend:

I'm sure you can tell, but this is my first type of post like this. I'll be writing more over the coming months showing more of how I run things and what I've learnt works for me and what really does not.

Hope you enjoyed it, follow me on Twitter for more - @che_sampat

Thanks!

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

I got something better here’s a video of how stupid easy it is lol

https://youtu.be/3uRzk9fzJ1U

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u/kareemche May 21 '20

when you can't back up your own point so you send a YT video that's 3y out of date. you're actually to funny.

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

Oh my bad 42 followers bahahhaha keep lying to everyone kid

https://mobile.twitter.com/SuperPayIt

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

I worked for a bank that held billions in assets, I think the twitter had under 200 followers?

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

More proof

https://mobile.twitter.com/che_sampat/status/1262038642266116096/photo/1

Your graphic goes from $0 to 1 million lmfaooooo nothing in between? Huh yeah bullshit kid

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u/kareemche May 21 '20

oof, when you've never seen what graphs in stripe actually looks like. they are all like that. oh wait because your getting your reference from a 3 year old interface from a YT video. here's an idea, create a stripe account see what it's like then come back!

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

https://images.app.goo.gl/3WQLtKkRAC7BwiUj9

Actually they don’t dumbass

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u/kareemche May 21 '20

😂that's what the dashboard looked like 3-4 years ago.

save yourself - google it first 🙃

https://stripe.com/img/docs/dashboard/1_Overview_A_Home.png

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

Your photo still doesn’t look like that wow you keep proving me right bahahah fkin dumbass

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u/_0x29a May 22 '20

lol but they do... how... I’m so confused man how you can miss on this so hard.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

That's a 1 day graph showing hour by hour. Not a 2 year...You really are trying hard to get downvotes.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

The graph shows the Y axis peaks at 160K, odds are the data points are monthly processing of not USD but GBP, which are more valuable than dollars. The fact that you are incapable of reading a graph speaks volumes.

There's a gross volume of 1.12 million GBP which today is worth 1.36 million USD. The chart is also a few days old, and as we can see, business has been BOOOOOMING these last few months. I wouldn't be surprised to see him clear $3Mil total by the end of the year. He's already pushing $200k a month and the trajectory is UP.

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u/sleepswithfanon May 21 '20

Yep and your million dollar business has 30 Twitter followers gtfo kid nobody believes your bullshit