There are a lot great comments, tips and tricks in here to help you cope. The only thing I’d recommend that I didn’t see here is to read this small book: The untethered soul by Michael Singer
It teaches you how to disconnect your Self from your thoughts and emotions and instead just to observe them. I found it a great read whether one is depressed or not.
Would you mind sharing which processor you are using? Seriously considering moving away from Stripe after todays news and since we have to implement basic subscription handling ourselves anyways or pay more ransom to stripe.
Would be much appreciated.
Second that! We are exactly in the same shoes. We are not using or planning to use any of those extra features and are pretty disappointed by that move. Costs us a couple of grand more every year in stripe fees or we now have to go hire a developer.
I'm pretty disappointed by that move from Stripe as well to be honest. When we signed up long time ago we were not aware that the basic functionality of subscriptions was offered for free only temporarily.
We use the stripe backend only to create and cancel subscriptions, that's it. Now we have to pay a couple of grand a year to do this or hire a developer.
I think a much better move would have been to add a new billing plan for the few new features that have been added, but leave people with the basic functionality that they grew used to.
And c'mon, narrow margins my ass. We are not talking about a small startup here, we are talking about Stripe, a billion dollar company! They should be able to afford having a developer or two working on those long neglected features and not compare themselves with chargebee. It's just sad.