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I think your criticism is a little off the mark. The integration with banks happens on Dwolla's servers, not in any client libraries they may offer. This libr
by dangrossman 11y ago
I think your criticism is a little off the mark.
The integration with banks happens on Dwolla's servers, not in any client libraries they may offer.
This library in question is just a thin wrapper around validation and AJAX for talking to Dwolla's HTTP API.
The code for a Dwolla API consumer to make a bank transfer could be just a few lines, without any libraries, which is what I was expecting to see, not that this demo isn't cool too. Showing off that your API is so straightforward you don't need a client library to use it would be good marketing to me.
Here's an example from another payments startup that used to make similar posts on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026802
I was always super impressed with Balanced and the way they communicated with developers.
- bobwaycott 11y agoI think calling this title misleading is more than a bit off the mark. Any competent developer should be able to achieve a few lines of code talking to APIs without a library. I also don't consider a curl command to be a line of code anymore than I consider an ls or rsync command to be a line of code. That a post doesn't meet a reader's expectations doesn't in any way mean the post is being misleading. Unless, of course, they'd added some additional language to the title to imply they weren't talking about using their tools. Which almost never happens on HN.