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Congrats on the launch guys. This is a real need!


Thanks


In fact, only just yesterday, someone asked me “how come Wagestream copied your UX/UI?” ;)


So... is the ;) an admission that you copied theirs? Does YC know about this?


Suppose an employee has a salary of 1,000$ per month. If the employer sets this filter at 50%, the employee can only withdraw up to 500$ on Payflow. Makes sense?


This is one of 100+ players trying to solve this problem. It’s a real problem and lots of us are trying to solve it!


jkhdigital is right.

Also, bear in mind that our average user in Spain takes out 50$, whilst their salary is >1,000$. We also regularly survey users to see chat reasons they make withdrawals for. Our conclusion is users are taking small portions of their salary to cover unexpected expense.

It’s so much better than paying for an expensive overdraft!


100 years ago, people were paid just after they worked. There are two reasons why that stopped being the case. Firstly, it’s a lot of work for the company. Secondly, it’s worse for the company’s cash flow. As others have also replied, the first is most significant.


Exactly, the risk is the first big difference. With Payflow, you can never spend more than you have already earned.

The second thing is most blue-collar workers in most countries can’t get credit cards at all.


Thanks a lot for sharing these learnings. We will keep them on our radar. Sure, would be great to chat!


Indeed… We think it’s a better way to get paid and we hope that one day everyone will get paid on-demand (worldwide). Let’s make that happen! ;)


Interesting observation! There are 100+ startups in the world trying to help with on-demand pay! Most of them have a very similar UX/UI.


Below are the top few products that turn up in a Google search for "on-demand pay". None have the circle-focused branding that you copied from Wagestream, and none (except Payflow) are synonyms for Wagestream.

A suggestion: you seem to recognize that it's too late to deny that you copied Wagestream's branding wholesale. Commenting repeatedly on this thread implicitly acknowledging the fact while not addressing it head on is not a good look.

* https://www.dailypay.com/

* https://www.ceridian.com/products/dayforce/payroll/on-demand...

* https://www.paylocity.com/our-products/payroll/on-demand-pay...


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