Cool idea! The docs are a little out of sync with what I'm seeing in the responses. I created an OpenAPI spec and generated some SDKs! Here's the python one: https://github.com/stainless-commons/rollin-python
Thanks for checking it out! You're right — the docs need updating, we're fixing that now. The actual API responses are the source of truth (which it looks like you figured out). Really cool that you built the Python SDK — mind if we link to it from our developer docs as a community SDK? Happy to bump you to Developer tier if you want to keep building.Hit me up: projects@stacklinestudio.com
The Stainless docs platform does some chunking and indexing by default and also gives per endpoint code snippets for different languages. This is more for companies who want to improve the agent experience for devs than for individuals working directly from an open api spec.
Sorry to hear the support process has been so frustrating. It sounds like your interactions over chat did not yield the technical answers you were looking for, then the escalation to email was also unsuccessful. I can totally understand how frustrating that is.
To answer your question directly, yes there is another channel specifically for questions related to your code and the Stripe APIs: IRC. The #stripe channel in the Freenode network (https://webchat.freenode.net/?channel=#stripe) is staffed most business hours, globally, with Stripe Developer Support Engineers who are there to answer these types of questions. At 11AM Moscow time, we have a team of engineers in Dublin and Singapore who are around to chat.
I’d also be more than happy to help answer any questions you have directly if you want to reach out on twitter over DM @cjav_dev or email cjavilla at stripe.
I went through App Academy in 2013, I'm a Developer for a small startup in SF applying some of the skills learned at the bootcamp. I feel like its pretty good prep for super entry level work. Most of my cohort is still employed as software engineers or has been promoted to director / CTO level positions.
The CTO/Director positions are really impressive. I'm curious if those people had proficiency in something other than software which is relevant to their business. I'm also curious as to the size of the companies they lead. The titles _sound_ great, but they're relative.
I'm not so sure. I've had a ton of CTO offers come my way and usually it's a situation where they're really hiring their first developer and want to pay more in equity than in cash. Most of the ones I bothered to talk to weren't really offering any kind of meaningful decision making power about the business.
This wasn't always the case, but it was overwhelmingly the majority. I'm not that impressed by CTOs of tiny businesses unless they're also co-founders and domain experts on top of that.
Someone in my cohort did a couple months of contracting, one job and then cofounded a startup all within like 8 months. He's the sole dev and his cofounder is a rich friend. Their business is in the California marijuana industry. I am not too envious.
I found myself in a very similar situation to you. I was working at a job that I didn't really like and knew that learning Rails was something that, on my own, would take many months to get proficient at before getting good enough to get a job. The way I broke out of my slump was to attend App Academy. I used the opportunity to really dive deep into Rails, and javascript, but also to meet a bunch of really great new people in a new place. (I had some previous web dev experience but no Rails and very little javascript and it was still absurdly useful :))
Super simple OSS tool to run with skills or at the CLI. npx @cjavdev/agent-lint https://docs.example.com
Looking forward to being inspired by your checks!