Building for Builders: Designing APIs for the Internet Economy

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Stripe presents a unified payments API that processes in over 140 currencies and abstracts cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay and local methods so integrations don’t multiply per country. Stripe Atlas reduces startup costs to as low as $50 for students. The platform serves over a million businesses, tracks that developers spend about 17 hours weekly on maintenance, and ships tooling like sorbet type checker on Ruby (covering most files and ~62% of methods) to cut bugs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:32APIs are the fastest route building great products
3. 4:3517 hours AVERAGE TIME SPENT BY A DEVELOPER EACH WEER
4. 6:41If developers start using y API en masse, will that be good for your core business?
5. 20:46Avoid Breaking Changes
6. 26:16Developer Dashboard PROVIDING NEW GUIDANCE INSIGHTS AND REAL-TIME MONITORING TOOLS
7. 26:43Sorbet FAST, POWERFUL TYPE CHECKER DESIGNED FOR RUBY

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