Whop now supports tens of thousands of businesses across hundreds of business models, in nearly every jurisdiction in the world. Every day, 300 new businesses make their first dollar on Whop.
As we grow, we're facing unprecedented levels of card testing. We currently block 97% of it and are working around the clock to further improve our models.
In the process, some businesses that were victims of card testing were suspended.
We've updated our systems to prevent this from happening in the future, and we are reviewing all recent suspensions to reinstate every account that was wrongfully suspended.
Another cleaning job for Orbit today. Here it is cleaning up Market street on a busy Saturday afternoon. Lots of people stopped by to thank Orbit for the good work.
We will have these all over SF soon. Coming to a street near you !
Shoutout to @YasodhJay who helped with building out the new version. Lots of upgrades coming soon.
👋 A few months ago I started a solo gamedev journey (a childhood dream).
My first game Rollup is live on iOS and Android (beta). Built solo in Godot doing nearly everything myself.
Give it a try and tell me what's fun, frustrating, or confusing. Help me build better games. 🙏
A famous bit of 90s hacker lore, after a server update Trey Harris at MIT realized he couldn't send email to any server over 500 miles away.
The root cause: a timeout erroneously set to "0", which rounded up to 3ms. At the speed of light, 3ms ~= 500 miles.
Last week, something very similar happened to us. Except that instead of a misconfigured timeout, in our case the issue involved speeding up time.
so excited to join this team!
@whop is payments, social, and dev tools combined in a way that I’ve never seen before
and everyone here cares so much about solving customers’ problems and building things the right way
I’m excited to announce that DisputeNinja has been acquired by @whop to build state of the art payments and fraud fighting infrastructure.
We joined @ycombinator in the S23 batch and have been building a chargeback-automation product that has helped software and AI startups win back millions in revenue.
Payments are a critical piece of the work that Whop is doing for the future of internet businesses and I couldn’t be more excited to be working with such a talented team.
We’re committed to making Whop the #1 place for small businesses, big businesses, platforms and apps to participate in the internet economy.
Most founders quit right before the breakthrough.
David Gu from https://t.co/DiQELXHEiN nailed something I see all the time: "Some things won't work until you've sunk 6 or 12 months into them."
Three months building a product? That's not enough time to build anything world-class. But founders panic and pivot anyway.
The real skill is knowing which bets deserve 6-12 months of your life.
David's framework: Get crystal clear on your core assumptions upfront. Then test those assumptions fast. If they hold, commit to the timeline needed for real results.
Don't confuse activity with progress. Don't confuse slow progress with no progress.
Most good things take longer than you think.
Fresh insights from @davidgu (CEO, https://t.co/DiQELXHEiN) who just raised $38M Series B.
Full @FoundersInArms episode in bio.