Here's a sad story
By George Barnett Reid 👀 · July 24, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Here's a sad story
"I'll contact my credit card company"
I build AmzDesignKit years ago.
Because people kept asking me to share examples of good Amazon content.
And I kept doing it. For free.
Here you go. Here you go. Here you go.
Then I made a little product out of it.
Paid developers (claude wasnt a thing), spent money, to make it a little easier for them to browse the gallery.
Then people asked for a little more.
And a little more.
And eventually I had to start charging a small amount.
Often less than $20.
Then it happens for the first time.
The Stripe dispute.
You're a bit confused.
You jump all around the houses seeing if it's a fair claim.
you get all your evidence together over 20 minutes.
And then in 3 weeks time you lose the claim. And it costs you $80 for that $20 transaction.
And after a while, you just say to yourself, what is the point?
So today, after another email threatening me with credit card chargebacks, I seriously debate whether to bin AmzDesignKit. And just focus on my main job of building Pare.
It's not a big revenue channel. It's not really profitable. I just maintain it as a service to the community.
But maybe there's just no point in that now.
#itsalwaysdayone