Gingko Desktop

Posted by Adriano
Mar 28, 2018 at 04:39 PM

Hi all.

There’s a lot to address here, and I won’t get into all of it, except to clarify some points.

I wasn’t aware that Bitcoin came up as an option, and will disable it (it’s more confusing than anything).
I wish I could support PayPal… really I do, and not just so I can get more money in my “cash grabs”, but because I want Gingko to be accessible to everyone, and not everyone has a credit card. But for now, the accounting and integration with PayPal is a real headache compared to what I’m using (stripe.com), especially when I want to offer things like Pay-What-You-Want.

With Stripe, none of your card details are stored (or in fact, ever even reach) my servers/databases.

As for the other comments, regarding the app’s half-baked state… I know!!
Releasing software is damn hard… but writing it in a vacuum is even harder.

Not everyone agrees with the approach, but enough people have given me helpful feedback that I’m happy with the decision.