First post in 4 years I’ve been busy bootstrapping PromptBase to 450k+ users But I was burning $9,400/mo in opaque Stripe fees for seller payouts So today I’m launching Zoneless: an open-source clone of Stripe Connect using USDC Identical API, except payouts cost $0.002 I’ve been dogfooding it on PromptBase for 3 months: - 2,200+ sellers onboarded - 1,400+ payouts completed - $9.4k/mo in Stripe fees → ~$5/mo - 73% of sellers chose Zoneless over Stripe

The idea is good, but the reality is that Credit cards are still the defacto payment method people use. So replacing stripe for zoneless is unfeasible for most devs. It would be nice if instead of replacing stripe it would work on top of stripe. Keep the customer creation within stripe and find a way to attach the usdc payement system you’ve built on top of the stripe infra (stripe would manage everything except payment). Maybe by using ‘paid_out_of_band’… That way you can still see all subscriptions and payments in one place (stripe) while accepting usdc payments seamlessly.

@ybouane Thanks for the feedback Yassine, I 100% agree on the pay-in side its going to be a while before cards are not the #1 choice. Zoneless is just for the payout-side currently - you can definitely use it alongside Stripe! (we do this on PB)