Stripe's payment API: The first 10 years (2020) (opens in new tab)

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24 pointslispybanana11mo ago2 comments

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> An API that gets out of your way

Their new API update (basil) makes me want to leave Stripe and not come back. Current Stripe API is something that is designed to get in your way as much as possible.

Yeah, I do understand the complexity, but I am paying Stripe to wrap that complexity for me, not expose more and more of it.

x-shadowban11mo ago

Interesting write up. It should be part of their documentation, it's helpful to have historical contextual info like this.

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egorfine11mo ago

> An API that gets out of your way

Their new API update (basil) makes me want to leave Stripe and not come back. Current Stripe API is something that is designed to get in your way as much as possible.

Yeah, I do understand the complexity, but I am paying Stripe to wrap that complexity for me, not expose more and more of it.

x-shadowban11mo ago

Interesting write up. It should be part of their documentation, it's helpful to have historical contextual info like this.

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