> everything is forced to go through the federal reserve, is expensive, and slow.

This isn't entirely accurate, there is a private clearing house that supports instant payments in the United States.

https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/CHIPS https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp

I've previously gone through review for IG basic + messaging permissions, it took several months of constant submissions to get approved. I'm not sure if their process has changed (got approval ~1 year ago), but we quickly realized Meta's entire review team has been outsourced to external contractors that just don't care. We'd get random rejections relating to functionality and check access logs to discover they hadn't even opened the app.

What ended up working for us was just keeping consistent & simple responses to the usage questions, and whenever we received a rejection with a valid concern, we'd address it at the top of our existing response with something like "In response to the latest rejection: ...". Unfortunately it seems unless you get a competent reviewer, you're out of luck, so just keep submitting as soon as rejection comes in and eventually you'll get through.

Thanks, and congratulations on getting through. Unfortunately they now have something in place whereby after X number of attempts (7 for me) they lock you out of applying for 90 days! I actually made a new business on Meta to try and submit again faster and have been locked out twice now.

Lemon Squeezy (recently acquired by Stripe) has a native digital product solution (https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/ecommerce/digital-products)

> They were good

So why wouldn't you keep them? If you're able to produce even more with AI enabled engineers, why downsize? To me, it sounds like a startup's dream to be able to output more without increasing headcount.

slang for "of course"

Natch, I feared as much. I've been seeing it more and more lately. I've found it's hard for me to look at. I'd say more but I'm already wasting words.

I wonder if anyone feels the same way about your use of "natch".

I do!

> I'd say more but I'm already wasting words.

ofc

It's quite old, I'm surprised you're only seeing it now

It's quite old, I'm surprised you're only seeing it now

Insert that xkcd comic

I needed to look up „natch” lol

Why don't you tell us too?

For anyone reading: it means "of course"

Technically it means "naturally" which (to me, natural UK English) reads to me as slightly less sarcastic than "of course", especially if you get the "of COURSE" intonation (implies "the little shits" at the end of the sentence to me, if you see what I mean. "Naturally, the BBC has the news" - good job, fellas! "Of COURSE, the BBC has the news" - the little shits, running around wasting our money on this, probably stealing from rubbish bins.)

I may have put too much thought into this.

You’re not alone! I remember natch having a connotation of bragging, too, e.g. “I played my new set last night. Three women gave me their numbers. Natch.”

Another one is ‘lol’

If you happen to see that one, it stands for ‘laughing out loud’.

> 2) Will this affect apps like CapCut and Lemon8 too?

Both, the bill lists any "website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that is operated, directly or indirectly" by ByteDance, which controls CapCut and Lemon8.