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Re:Show HN: A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integra... by x86ARMsRace on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:44PM (#25824315)
To me this sounds like an example of bad practice commonly implemented. Along the lines of the litany of open source projects who's install instructions involve CURLing a shell file into sh directly. It's bad practice, but so commonly implemented people mistake it for good/fine practice.
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Re:Show HN: A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integra... by bpicolo on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:55PM (#25824462)
To be fair, sometimes you need bad practice to make things possible to do. Plaid takes your bank username and password to scrape pages because it’s the only choice to make the tech.

Flouting the rules is the basis for a lot of successful businesses.

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Re:Show HN: A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integra... by x86ARMsRace on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:22PM (#25828442)
A qualified absolutely. I love to build side projects, and generally the first iteration is very poorly built. If your goal is to put "ideas on paper" so to speak, then you're 100% right. This could even make it to early production if you're really in a pinch.

I think though that there's a point where you need to move past the bad practice and find, or create the right way to do what you're trying to do.

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Re:Show HN: A low-code alternative for Stripe/Twilio Integra... by hundchenkatze on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:06PM (#25824618)
Except in this case Stripe provides a way for 3rd parties to access your Stripe account without giving the 3rd party your password.
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