EDUCATION & TRAINING
Why Most Solutions Fail and What Finally Worked
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
The Problem We Were Actually Solving At first, we thought our problem was technical: how to integrate our payment gateway with the dozens of regions where PayPal didn't work. But as we dug deeper, we discovered that our real issue was geographical: we were trying to force Western payment systems onto a global market with vastly different regulatory landscapes. This approach was doomed to fail, especially when working with countries like Iran, North Korea, and Syria, where even the most reputable payment gateways faced restrictions due to US sanctions.