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Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by guptaneil »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

Now that Stripe offers a corporate credit card, it's likely only a matter of time until they enable people to build their own credit card on top of Stripe. I assume they've built the API's internally already for themselves.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by latencyloser »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per some period of time or in total. Their autofill plugin for firefox works pretty well. That's the extend of my usage of the service, it might do more but I'm not sure.

Personally, I use them for anything that doesn't accept paypal or similar payment systems. Hopefully that's helpful.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by buu700 »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

I haven't used it, but https://developer.privacy.com could probably accomplish things like that.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by Fellshard »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

I had to implement a corporate version of this; they had a backing account and credit line, so this was an integration that involved four parties: the vendor, the owner of the credit account, the bank backing the credit account, and the card distributor. It was a messy process, involving key exchange and SOAP requests - very much a back-channel API more than a public-facing one.

I think a more publicly-friendly API might be created if it's merely the same credit card company providing temporary virtual credit cards that are backed by your main credit line. VCCs like that are already in use, the question is merely one of how freely accessible they are through programmatic means.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by [deleted] »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

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Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by rsync »

mLuby wrote: post #50
rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

Sounds like something Privacy.com could do without much trouble, though I don't think they actually have a CLI (yet).

Interesting ... although they do not have a CLI, can you call functions with 'curl', like:

curl api.privacy.com CID:blahblah token:blahblah ... action-action-blah-blah ?

I don't actually use a Twilio CLI - I call functions with curl from my own scripts ...

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by empyrical »

latencyloser wrote: post #52
rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per some period of time or in total. Their autofill plugin for firefox works pretty well. That's the extend of my usage of the service, it might do more but I'm not sure. Personally, I use them for anything that doesn't accept paypal or similar payment systems. Hopefu…

Is there anything like Privacy.com, but for Canadians? I really like the idea of being able to have per-service burner cards

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by numtel »

zehtomer wrote: post #37

Hi all! I'm one of the folks who's been working on this for the past few months. I'm happy to answer some questions about the CLI or how it was built (using Go and websockets for pushing data). If you have any ideas or feedback feel free to email me directly too! tomer@stripe.com -- We'd love to hear how you're using the CLI and what you'd like to see in the future.

Super minor complaint, but when I suspend/lose connection for a while and it restores, I have to restart the CLI to resume receiving events.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by zymhan »

rsync wrote: post #49

In the Twilio world, I can do something like this, via the command line and their API: - activate new phone number - send SMS from that number - deactivate number I have not ever done that particular workflow , but I could. Who is the Twilio of payments/fintech wherein I could perform a workflow like this: - generate new CC number in my name - set transaction limit(s) and expiry 10 days from now - (go use that CC in…

How could you programmatically create a credit card without some pre-existing financial relationship with a a credit card issuer?

There's a good reason you cannot simply create and destroy payment cards without any trusted third party keeping track. Money laundering is the obvious issue.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by UnityRanson »

knubie wrote: post #15

Stripe is by far the best developer experience I’ve had in my career working with third party APIs/services. The attention to detail is just second to none, and documentation is a big part of this.

Interestingly, I randomly stumbled upon https://github.com/stripe/react-stripe-elements/issues/451, which is the opposite of what you describe. I'm not intentionally cherry-picking and I have limited experience working with Stripe, but there seem to be struggles on their part in some areas too. I suppose it's only natural to have some less shiny areas at any company.
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