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"I get the same joy from coding that a painter gets from painting. A painter that can paint what, when, how, why and where they want is likely happy. A painter that has to paint what other people want on a schedule is often just struggling to pay the rent. They develop a toxic relationship with their art, and that's sad." Love this quote Pete!


Same - for most of us, the technical execution is the easy part. Whenever I have an idea nowadays, I try to figure out a couple distribution points and also get some early market validation before getting started. Read more about the Lean Methodology :)


Paywalled :(


Love the concept as I was looking at an API for this :) might be cool in the future if you guys can do re-sizing/cropping in the future too.


Thanks Tim, that's great to hear!

We have a separate service for resizing and cropping which isn't featured there. Feel free to say hello, we'll be happy to learn about your usecase and if possible offer some free help and pointers.


I agree - that would be an awesome follow up post to garner more insights into getting the start-up from day 1 to selling it :)


This looks like a very interesting product. I love the design of the landing page as well.


Thanks!


I finally got around to checking out Stripe after reading this post. Their documentation is pretty spectacular IMO.

- https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms - https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/charges

Was pretty much all I need to get started (I'm using one of their third party wrapping for .NET)

I guess it might get slightly more complicated if you are doing recurring billing or customers but their standard template should be sufficient for your needs at this stage. I pretty much took this example:

1) https://gist.github.com/1750361#file_stripe_tutorial_page.ht... 2) Pulled their API wrapper (they have PHP library) - I think the only part that needs updating is your API key 3) Followed their example listed on the page

and everything worked. Let me know if I can help further!


Nice! yep, the documentation is great alright, but I think I'm missing a pretty basic concept in here. I've got my html page with the form on it in my home/webapps/stripe folder. I've got the PHP package in my home directory. I've got the code from the charges tutorial, webapps/stripe. And now... I'm not sure how to know if it works. It seems to me that some variables and filepaths in the charges code ought to be changed, and I'm stalled at that point.

Does that make sense?


I have a problem deleting some elements from the IPhone after I have dragged it into place for example the password box

I am on Firefox 3.6


Clickable - http://thewallmachine.com

Pretty neat idea and certainly will make things fun for those that either don't have time to boot up Photo Editing Software or the know how



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