{"slug": "mollie", "name": "Mollie", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.912, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-05-13", "latest": "2026-07-07", "why": "It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.mollie.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mollie"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781086080, "item_id": 48817880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service.", "excerpt": "I'm italian too. For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good. You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far. > Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe? Why wou", "context": "Italian developer", "use_case": "payments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 772342338, "item_id": 48271396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "by": "BrunoBernardino", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years", "excerpt": "As someone who tries to \"buy local\", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn\u2019t seem to be listed there.", "context": "tries to buy local", "use_case": "payments", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 769988400, "item_id": 48124275, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124275", "by": "6510", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I kept thinking \"this is it? This is all I need to do??\"", "excerpt": "When reading the docs of quite a few payment processors (for a simple cart check out) Mollie was quite hilarious. I kept thinking \"this is it? This is all I need to do??\" Then the masochist api's are also available. And a serious lack of \"dear customer, we are keeping all of your money for reasons we wont get into, screw you and your customers, you have no further questions.\" Which I consider a killer feature.", "context": "", "use_case": "payment processing for cart checkout", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "epolanski", "context": "Italian developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "date": "2026-07-07"}, {"by": "BrunoBernardino", "context": "tries to buy local", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "date": "2026-05-25"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["payments", "subscription payments", "payment processing for cart checkout"], "compared": [{"slug": "stripe", "name": "Stripe", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270111", "title": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816612", "title": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629", "title": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 781086080, "item_id": 48817880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service.", "excerpt": "I'm italian too. For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good. You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far. > Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe? Why wou", "context": "Italian developer", "use_case": "payments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 772420608, "item_id": 48276288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276288", "by": "tmaier", "date": "2026-05-26", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I would be interested to learn more about Mollie as an alternative to Stripe.", "excerpt": "I would be interested to learn more about Mollie as an alternative to Stripe. I saw that it has some Subscription API endpoints, but I am not sure how it compares in real life to Stripe. How much would I need to build myself in a classical Ruby on Rails SaaS app compared to pay gem/stripe? Are there any reference implementations for any of mainstream programming language and web development frameworks for this use-ca", "context": "Ruby on Rails SaaS developer", "use_case": "subscription payments", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 772342338, "item_id": 48271396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "by": "BrunoBernardino", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years", "excerpt": "As someone who tries to \"buy local\", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn\u2019t seem to be listed there.", "context": "tries to buy local", "use_case": "payments", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 769988400, "item_id": 48124275, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124275", "by": "6510", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I kept thinking \"this is it? This is all I need to do??\"", "excerpt": "When reading the docs of quite a few payment processors (for a simple cart check out) Mollie was quite hilarious. I kept thinking \"this is it? This is all I need to do??\" Then the masochist api's are also available. And a serious lack of \"dear customer, we are keeping all of your money for reasons we wont get into, screw you and your customers, you have no further questions.\" Which I consider a killer feature.", "context": "", "use_case": "payment processing for cart checkout", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"}]}