Dan Hill

A lot of very exciting things coming here!

@stevekaliski I remember when my dad brought home a cd rom with a Borland compiler

Even though I using coding agents daily and it's part of my routine, I periodically have a complete moment of awe. It wasn't that long ago that I had an O'Reilly book open, typing in the code into TextMate, scrambling across the web to figure out installation instructions...

@janamal Literally building a bot to try and do this right now!

I cannot wait until I can trust agentic AI enough to offload summer camp sign ups.

This week we celebrated @OpenClaw Conf in Vienna. 🔥 One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal. Everyone has their own insta-coder, their own personal appstore. Soon software will exist on the fly, only when you need it. Just for one moment. Then it's gone. Personalized, disposable, one-shot. 🤯 Code can now be autogenerated. So if code is "no longer worth anything" (hyperbole speaking) and you can auto-build any idea into existence (slop gods be kind): What is the future of software development – especially for founders? I made a video on this. Spoilers: we had the working title: "Software Development is f**d" This video is maybe more questions than answers – especially for SaaS founders. But I also cover POVs of mine: Eg why GitHub is obsolete, why open source might actually be dead soon, the Mexican standoff between designers/engineers/PMs, why prompt injection could be bigger than SQL injection, and what I'd actually do as a SaaS founder right now. But there is also a paradox in all of this: Now might be the most exciting time to build software. Ever. 🦾 Thanks as always for watching. Likes, shares, subscribes, goat slaugthering, and any other algo magic you can throw at this: deeply appreciated. Trying to build this YouTube channel up and your support genuinely helps. Link to the channel in the reply ❤️

@jarekceborski @adamwathan @stripe What would make link work better for you?

@adamwathan @stripe I think it is:

We moved Refactoring UI over from Paddle to @stripe's new managed payments product last week and although it's a bit early to say for sure, I am pretty confident we are already making more money. Never would have believed it but the checkout does seem to convert significantly better, and I think it's entirely because of Link.

@adamwathan @stripe great to see! very open to anything we can improve or add to make it better for you?

@nearbycoder @adamwathan @stripe great to hear! always open to ideas or feedback how we can improve the experience

@adamwathan @stripe You aren't wrong, I definitely tend to make more purchases when I see that `link` branding because it already has the info and it's more a one click experience

Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for, and, increasingly, to sell to. Today, we’re launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripe—a way for developers to directly charge agents, with a few lines of code. 🤖💸 $ Let’s start tinkering… ⤵️

I'm hiring staff consumer PMs to come work on @link! The way we buy is evolving: new payment methods, new purchase modalities, and new kinds of money. Link has 200m+ users worldwide, used by two-thirds of the Forbes AI 50, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, xAI, Perplexity, and Suno. We're building a wallet for a future of agents, stablecoins and secure portable identity. Get to work with @irace @jay_ssh and a ton of other smart great people. DM me if you're interested. stripe.com/jobs/listing/s…

Claude Code Random Forests: have multiple agents tackle the same problem with slightly different prompts, have another agent vote on the winner. Extract why the winner won, feed back to the prompts.

@brian_lovin I've done a similar thing with Claude Code, and then written skills to help it do the analysis (e.g. write python scripts to do month/month trends, do google search for uncategorized transactions)

A useful thing to try: export your entire 2025 transaction history from your bank, upload to Claude, and chat about your spending habits.

@brian_lovin We've been building a beta version of this with @link - connect all your accounts, then give MCP access to your favorite agent. We're doing a bunch of enrichment, joining multiple accounts etc. DM if interested in getting early access!

@chapello @jeff_weinstein Hey Andrew - able to let me know the url/flow you were in to get to this screen? There should be an option to signup for Link.

Hey @jeff_weinstein pretty good growth hack to auto save cards to Link, but it's an anti pattern to not give the option to not save. In this case I'm using a one-time card so this is going to be low value for both Stripe and me going forward.

Grew up admiring Starbucks. One of the most fun, innovative, legendary consumer brands. It’s flattering to see that they’re increasingly copying everything we do. Not even a remix. Sad how lazy, scared, and uninspired they’ve become…

Two-thirds of the Forbes AI 50 use @link, Stripe's consumer wallet, for fast, easy checkout. @AnthropicAI is one of them: 80% of its customers use Link to pay with a saved card or US bank account. stripe.com/customers/anth…

Introducing the Agentic Commerce Suite: get ready to sell on AI agents. 🛒 Add your product catalog 📦 Accept payments and manage orders 👩‍💻 Onboard agents from the Stripe Dashboard

@matijagrcic @jeff_weinstein @stripe @link Any other feedback or things you’d want from link very welcome!

@danhilltech @jeff_weinstein @stripe @link yeah if it's there I always use it but in most cases it's not and needs more visibility as when the email is recognized you're in a happy land of fast checkout.

a couple @stripe bfcm stats: - $40B in volume across 578M transactions - 150,000 users had their best day ever (my fav) - >99.9999% API uptime (that's six 9s) - @link saved humans 2.7M mins (five years) of typing - x-border volume +37% y/y - 24.6M fraudulent transactions blocked

@matijagrcic @jeff_weinstein @stripe @link Yea great idea - many sites also offer an express checkout button for link (like Apple Pay), but yea for those that don’t there’s no obvious ‘I have link’ option

@danhilltech @jeff_weinstein @stripe @link one thing i had in mind was, instead the form waiting to recognize the link connection thru email (it's not that obvious for regular users i think) you tap on a button with text copy "I have Link" and enter your email.

@matijagrcic @jeff_weinstein @stripe @link Great to hear! Love any feedback or ideas for how we could improve it

@jeff_weinstein @stripe @link @link is the real star, as soon as the email is recognized it's like a one click buy experience. so good.