[LukeHoersten]

Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable. These projects are extensive and awesome. I love the personal projects section at the bottom of the page. You can see why Stripe is so successful. They truly have a dev culture and that's a lot more than most companies that just say they have a dev culture. At Stripes scale and size that's a big success.

[nathancahill]

True. I just came across Rickshaw[0] from Shutterstock. I'd love to use it, but there hasn't been a commit in 8 months, pull requests are backlogged and there's a thread titled "Is Rickshaw dead?"[1] that hasn't had any response in months (either to shift maintenance to someone else or kill/fork the project).

It looks like a poster child of companies open source projects done wrong. I'm sure it was developed for internal use, made public with a prominent "Open Source! We're Hiring!"[2] and then mostly forgotten about. Not that maintenance is easy! It's a big commitment, which is why Stripe really shines here: not just for open sourcing their code, but for maintaining their projects continuously.

[0] https://github.com/shutterstock/rickshaw

[1] https://github.com/shutterstock/rickshaw/issues/517

[2] http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/

[DamnInteresting]

I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.

[kornish]

Stripe's API docs are absolutely gorgeous, also, for what it's worth:

https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges

[reitanqild]

Anybody wants to explain why fica was downvoted? My best guess is undisclosed relationship to gelato.

Edit: my bad, found dangs comment.

[Killswitch]

> Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable.

I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?

[rnovak]

    I don't understand this. You think Netflix and Facebook's Open source projects are lame?

Whoah, I didn't notice that Netflix and Facebook became the only tech companies on Earth.

[Killswitch]

No, but from what I understand op saying is that most open source from companies are lame, and I haven't seen any lame open source projects from companies, even if in languages I don't like. So by saying "Usually it feels like companies open source projects are kind of lame or just to look fashionable." it comes off that op things that.

[son_ngu]

That's a loaded question. I don't think op means every company.