Payment Approval Checker

What it does

A smart compliance and risk assessment tool for indie hackers. Instantly check if Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, or Lemon Squeezy supports your SaaS, AI tool, or digital product before writing a single line of billing code. Avoid sudden account suspensions and find the perfect payment gateway or Merchant of Record (MoR) for your project.

Check which payment platforms may approve your SaaS, AI tool, Chrome Extension, digital product, or non-US founder setup before you integrate.

Check whether Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Dodo Payments, Polar, Coinbase Commerce, NOWPayments or OpenNode may fit your project before you integrate. // Based on public policies & developer use cases. Not legal or financial advice. Verify platform policy alignment across these common indie hacker business categories. A high-level orientation comparison. Run the checker for product-specific risks and context. Payment policies are scattered, written in dense legal jargon, and often discovered after you’ve already integrated the SDK. This tool aggregates policy sources into plain checklists. Stripe gives you full API control and lower base fees (2.9% + $0.30) but leaves global sales…from softstar.ink

• 
  ByeDispute2023 · byedispute.com · ▲746

  Prevent disputes before getting banned from Stripe

• 
  Sentra by Dodo PaymentsOct 2025 · dodopayments.com · ▲620

  Stripe is often seen as the gold standard for international and cross-border payments. But in reality, many founders, especially those outside the US, have a different experience: Merchants are frequently offboarded without much explanation. Stripe isn’t available or fully supported in many countries. Even when available, setting up a legal entity, handling tax compliance, or managing FX fees can be a huge overhead. We built Dodo Payments to solve exactly this. (https://www.dodopayments.com) It’s a Merchant of Record (MoR) platform designed to help digital founders and indie…

• 
  Checker2025 · ▲124

  Detect fake signups in under 200ms with an easy-to-use API

• 
  Control2016 · ▲126

  Stripe and PayPal analytics in the palm of your hand.

• 
  Control2017 · ▲135

  Analytics for Square, Stripe and PayPal

• 
  TillyPay 2.02021 · tillypay.com · ▲108

  A no-code billing platform, all under your own domain

• 
  Fundraisly▲1,537

  AI fundraising agent that finds investors and books meetings

  AI · Jun 2026 · fundraisly.com

• 
  Homebrew 6.0.0▲1,481

  Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!

  Dev tools · Jun 2026 · brew.sh

• 
  Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes▲1,181

  Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io

• 
  Upstream▲976

  The inbox designed for humans and agents

  AI · Jun 2026 · upstream.do

• 
  Goldfish▲958

  Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you

  AI · Jun 2026 · goldfish.sh

• 
  I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments▲822

  Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com