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Open-source Stripe Connect alternative

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Hey, I'm Ben. I built Zoneless because I was paying so much to use Stripe Connect on my own marketplace. The fees were really, really bad, and it was also limiting in terms of the seller countries I could onboard. To give you an idea, I was paying around $9,000 per month in fees just to run payouts. Using Zoneless, that cost goes down to around $6.I've been using it personally for the past few months, and onboarded 5,000+ sellers and done 3,000+ payouts. 74% of new sellers on my marketplace choose Zoneless over Stripe, which is really interesting. I appreciate crypto and stablecoins are a bit of a touchy subject, but for this use case of sending global payouts cheaply, it's perfect.The project is open source with an Apache 2.0 licence, which means there's the benefit of no lock-in and no risk of your account getting flagged or shut down. It also has an almost identical API and dashboard to Stripe.Would love to hear any feedback you may have in the comments.

HN · launched Aug 20, 2026 · 83 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views

Niche: billing and payment platforms · 146 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Fintech
  • Marketplace
  • B2B
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Creating a marketplace payment and payout engine requires strict financial compliance (AML, KYC, money transmitter licensing), banking rail integrations, and PCI-DSS certification that software automation cannot bypass.

What it would actually take: Requires building an enterprise-grade fintech ledger with double-entry bookkeeping, multi-currency payout routing via global banking rails (Wise, ACH, SEPA, local rails), and KYC/identity verification pipelines. Legally and operationally requires financial compliance, SOC 2 / PCI-DSS compliance, and partnerships with sponsor banks or licensed payment institutions across supported jurisdictions.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: usedots.com, Coinflow, Fiber

Concerns raised: Banks will offer native stablecoin conversions in 1-2 years, making this obsolete, KYC and identity verification concerns, On/off-ramping fees for recipients

Feature requests: Charge modest refundable fee ($1/month) via Stripe for KYC flagging

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 461 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #35 of 462 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.

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