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Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by freehunter »

IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69
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.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

I’ve had a good experience with Facebook up until a few months ago when they started shutting off APIs that SHOULD be public without giving any notice and implementing silly requirements like “can’t post to your own business page without giving Facebook a login to your app and letting Facebook post on your company’s behalf”.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by ztratar »

johns wrote: post #72
guptaneil wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://stripe.com/issuing . Just needs a virtual-only option.

Stripe Issuing supports virtual card issuance.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by ztratar »

on_and_off wrote: post #39
soygul wrote: post #32

Excellent product, fast improvements, best in class API/SDK, and documentation; this was pretty much my summary after extensive research on payment processors. After 2 years of using Stripe, my conclusion is unchanged. Also, an interesting coincidence that I've just released a case study of Stripe's success and recent $35B valuation [YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFAbBvu7hA

Fwiw, we kinda had the opposite experience when trying to get them to fix the a11y of their product. It has been a constant struggle on all platforms to get the stripe widgets to behave correctly. Since payment is not exactly an optional step in a product, this has been very painful.

Curious which widgets you're talking about?

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by twakefield »

pc wrote: post #25
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.

Thanks! We still have a lot of work to do. (Making our integration experience simpler -- now that Stripe's functionality has grown so much -- is an area of current focus. If any HN readers happen to have specific suggestions on this front, feel free to email sebas@stripe.com.)

I'm surprised Quickbooks Online is not listed here [0]. I'm guessing they are the blocker here? I have fallen back on using Zapier but the sync often breaks. Native integration would be preferred.

[0] https://stripe.com/partners/apps-and-extensions/accounting

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by dalanmiller »

IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69
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.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

The Twilio Dashboard _really_ needs a refresh. It's still in a world where every button is a complete page refresh. It's painfully slow to interact with.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by gtirloni »

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.

Aside from documentation, how do you judge if an API is good?

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by edoo »

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…

That reminds me, paypal used to have a one time/subscription CC generator browser plugin way back in the day. It was great. I used it all the time and one day it just disappeared.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by zyrthofar »

IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69
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.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

Twilio indeed! I also have Digital Ocean and SendGrid on my own list, which are written by developers for developers.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by wkoszek »

pc wrote: post #25
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.

Thanks! We still have a lot of work to do. (Making our integration experience simpler -- now that Stripe's functionality has grown so much -- is an area of current focus. If any HN readers happen to have specific suggestions on this front, feel free to email sebas@stripe.com.)

If you guys could make your docs available for offline/downloadable reading in apps like Dash, it'd be amazing. There's a fundraiser to do it:

https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions/issues/201...

but this project would be much easier to do by someone inside of Stripe.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by oauea »

m12k wrote: post #68
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.

I felt that way until I needed to prepare for the new EU credit card regulation that came into effect a few months back and implement Stripe's update for it. There's a bunch of gotchas in the transition - e.g. you can't apply coupons when creating subscriptions with the new checkout flow (needed to handle 2FA), "sources" and "payment methods" show up in the same list in Stripe's UI, but are not fetched by the same AP…

As someone who just started using Stripe with no prior experience with their api, the current state is very confusing.
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