Stripe is redefining e-commerce. Patrick and John Collison had a very specific insight into the future of internet businesses: primarily, they’re driven by the software developers who build them. They have, along with one of the most talented, creative teams in Silicon Valley, created a $9.2B business with powerful financial APIs as the centerpiece.

At StdLib (“Standard Library”), we share a similar vision of the future of business. Our goal is to lower the barrier to entry to creating web products based on new “serverless” technology. We make it even easier for a broader class of developer to build backend services and integrate with companies like Slack to build bots, and Twilio to build messaging hubs. Today we’re pleased to show you how in only a few minutes, you can build a production-ready Stripe-powered store that is fully-customizable using StdLib.

StdLib ❤ Stripe

We think you’ll find with StdLib that you’ve never had an easier time managing web services. You only have to think in functions, and we have a suite of powerful command line tools that allow for rapid local development and testing.

Once you’ve created your StdLib service in Minute 5, you’ll get a README.md file but can also follow along via GitHub in the stdlib/utils.templates stripe folder.

What You’ll Need Beforehand