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Show HN: Sale – A live cash register for your Stripe account

55 points by rfelix2121 4y ago

rfelix2121 4y ago
I've been building on top of Stripe for awhile now, and I've always wanted a way to see live charges as they come in. I also needed an excuse to finally learn WebSockets/ActionCable, so I made this. I plan to add more sections of data in the future, and maybe some goal tracking, so that people can track progress toward their revenue targets (and share them with others for support!)
- edwinwee 4y ago
  This is really cool!
  - rfelix2121 4y ago
    Thanks! Coming from someone at Stripe, that's high praise.
- iosnoob 4y ago
  Can it be for week or month instead of current day?
  - rfelix2121 4y ago
    In the future, sure. Especially when I add goals, because they'll be much more useful when it comes to MRR, for instance.
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onion2k 4y ago
One tiny suggestion - use "font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;" in the styling. It'll stop the UI moving around when there's a number that starts with 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-numeric https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...
- rfelix2121 4y ago
  Thank you! I'm much more into backend dev, so this is very helpful. Will do.
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cinntaile 4y ago
I like it. I would prefer if your play the chime demo counted upwards instead of being rng each time you click, but that's just a tiny nitpick.
- rfelix2121 4y ago
  I definitely considered that. Then I realized that I would also need to not let the numbers get too large and/or reset them at some point, so I just shipped it. I may still do this, as it's definitely more accurate that way in terms of representing how it actually works!
mritchie712 4y ago
This is great marketing, nice job. Have you ever read Traction[0]? They call this engineering-as-marketing[1]. I built an open-source version[3] of Baremetrics when I was working on a loan marketplace for SaaS companies[4]. It did ok! I'd consider open-sourcing the tool since it's not your main business. 0 - https://www.amazon.com/Traction-audiobook/dp/B01705KMG4 https://www.amazon.com/Traction-audiobook/dp/B01705KMG4 1 - https://www.chameleon.io/blog/engineering-as-marketing#:~:text=What%20is%20Engineering%20as%20Marketing,that%20they%20will%20find%20useful https://www.chameleon.io/blog/engineering-as-marketing#:~:te.... 3 - https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse 4 - https://www.trypaper.io/ https://www.trypaper.io/

55 points by rfelix2121 4y ago

I've been building on top of Stripe for awhile now, and I've always wanted a way to see live charges as they come in. I also needed an excuse to finally learn WebSockets/ActionCable, so I made this. I plan to add more sections of data in the future, and maybe some goal tracking, so that people can track progress toward their revenue targets (and share them with others for support!)

edwinwee 4y ago
This is really cool!
- rfelix2121 4y ago
  Thanks! Coming from someone at Stripe, that's high praise.
iosnoob 4y ago
Can it be for week or month instead of current day?
- rfelix2121 4y ago
  In the future, sure. Especially when I add goals, because they'll be much more useful when it comes to MRR, for instance.

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onion2k 4y ago

One tiny suggestion - use "font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;" in the styling. It'll stop the UI moving around when there's a number that starts with 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-numeric https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...

rfelix2121 4y ago
Thank you! I'm much more into backend dev, so this is very helpful. Will do.
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cinntaile 4y ago

I like it. I would prefer if your play the chime demo counted upwards instead of being rng each time you click, but that's just a tiny nitpick.

rfelix2121 4y ago
I definitely considered that. Then I realized that I would also need to not let the numbers get too large and/or reset them at some point, so I just shipped it. I may still do this, as it's definitely more accurate that way in terms of representing how it actually works!

mritchie712 4y ago

This is great marketing, nice job. Have you ever read Traction[0]? They call this engineering-as-marketing[1]. I built an open-source version[3] of Baremetrics when I was working on a loan marketplace for SaaS companies[4]. It did ok! I'd consider open-sourcing the tool since it's not your main business. 0 - https://www.amazon.com/Traction-audiobook/dp/B01705KMG4 https://www.amazon.com/Traction-audiobook/dp/B01705KMG4 1 - https://www.chameleon.io/blog/engineering-as-marketing#:~:text=What%20is%20Engineering%20as%20Marketing,that%20they%20will%20find%20useful https://www.chameleon.io/blog/engineering-as-marketing#:~:te.... 3 - https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse 4 - https://www.trypaper.io/ https://www.trypaper.io/