Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit
Hey HN! Alex & Jess here, cofounders at Pier ( https://www.pier-finance.com ). Pier is an API for launching credit products. We enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing with just a few lines of code. There’s no ‘try it out’ link, primarily because (as most fintech devs know) there are compliance and regulatory thresholds that make it hard for us to give out sandbox keys freely. However, we’ve put together this video to show you the basics of how Pier works: https://www.loom.com/share/04883eb17f394b46a67cce919cb77356 . Alex & I worked together at our last company, a credit tech startup, where we saw how businesses struggle to launch credit products quickly & compliantly, due to fragmented solutions and high compliance hurdles. We’ve talked to many companies looking to launch their own produ
Why it failed
Hey HN! Alex & Jess here, cofounders at Pier ( https://www.pier-finance.com ). Pier is an API for launching credit products. We enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing with just a few lines of code. There’s
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jess-zhang
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews