30 karma · joined May 1, 2017
I spent the past two years building a product on top of Stripe. I've been wanting to show it a Stripe team member and if you are interested I would love to get your feedback on it. I was supposed to meet with Edwin Wee in SF back in July but never got to actually meet.
Here is my calendar link if you are interested to talk: https://calendly.com/servicebot/shar
1- We started it because we were tired of sending manual invoices to our clients for custom web application development work. We couldn't connect our invoices, customers, and services we provided to our customers in a single place. So we built Servicebot to automate the process of invoicing through Stripe. Creating a self service portal for customers to order more work, approve existing and future work. And we open sourced.
2- We have been writing blog content to show people how Servicebot will help cut business cost but automating the billing and customer management processes.
3- We have been posting it on Medium, Reddit, HN, and a lot of word of the mouth.
4- I don't think unfair is the right word. I think it's lack of knowledge. We spent a lot more time developing a solution for our itch than to think about marketing and product roll out.
I'm not sure if it helps but my team an I are working on a project that you might also like the design: servicebot.io (wait for the parachutes :)