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Ask HN: What software does every company write themselves?

2 points by bactrian ↗ HN
Before Stripe every company had to hack together their own payment gateway. Before PagerDuty every company had to hack together their own incident response system.

What problems like these exist today?

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stephenr
> Before Stripe every company had to hack together their own payment gateway.

WTF are you talking about? Payment gateways have been a thing for decades.

[dead] bactrian
Hey nerdraging moron I obviously don’t mean every company did. I mean it was common. Many companies, prior to Stripe, did create their own gateways or custom systems on top of gateways. I know because I was there.

If you don’t have something useful to contribute please just stfu.

stephenr
> did create their own gateways

> Many companies, prior to Stripe, did create their own gateways or custom systems on top of gateways.

Ah. There it is.

By your logic, because I've written shell code, I've written a shell interpreter, because I wrote something custom on top of it.

Nice ad hominem though.