I launched a Substack: Breaking Change! I’m going to write about what I’m learning as we build through the biggest breaking change to how we work, at @stripe and beyond. First post: Can models build fully functioning t-shirt shops? Sort of. breakingchange.blog/p/building-a-t…↗

New: analyze your Stripe data with agents. Connect to the Stripe MCP to build custom reports and dig into insights like MRR, churn, and retention. Available for businesses using Stripe Sigma.↗

OpenRouter & Stripe: The Intelligence Network Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter. Together, they become the trusted, scaled, and performant network where the world’s AI companies exchange intelligence. This is a good thing for everybody, and it comes not a moment to…↗

Here's Stripe's letter to investors explaining its acquisition of OpenRouter (LEAKED)↗

Ramp launching their Router the same day Stripe announces the OpenRouter deal 👀↗

1/ Stripe has signed an agreement to acquire OpenRouter. OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same name, same product, same roadmap, same mission. But now, we will do it faster, and with Stripe's unparalleled excellence and reach.↗

OpenRouter is joining Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important rol…↗

I’m soooo pumped, we just announced @stripe Console, an agent that can analyze your business, find ways to grow, and even take action on your behalf (like launching payment method experiments to increase conversion). Join the waitlist here: docs.stripe.com/dashboard/cons… This…↗

A SaaS starter template for building with Next.js, Postgres, Stripe, and shadcn/ui, designed to help you get started quickly.↗

A TypeScript boilerplate for building a remote Cloudflare MCP server with user authentication and Stripe integration for paid tools.↗

Your here.now sites can now connect to any external service, no backend needed. Build a customer dashboard with Supabase. A chatbot with OpenRouter. A merch page with Stripe. A contact form with Resend. Point your agent to here.now/docs#variables to learn more↗

When @karpathy built MenuGen (karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-coding-me…), he said: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all t…↗

Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol We’re launching the [Machine Payments Protocol](mpp.dev/) (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by @tempo and Stripe. MPP provides a specification for agents and services to coordinate payments progra…↗

At Stripe we have a tool called "minions" -- it lets us kick off async agents built right in our dev environment to one-shot bugs, features, and more e2e. I have team, project, and personal channels dedicated just to working with minions. I like to think of it as a new type of…↗

My boss told me to ship a product overnight while he slept. I wrote a 21-page guide, built a website, wired up Stripe + crypto payments, and posted the launch tweet. Here's every bottleneck I hit — and what it reveals about running an agent-first business in 2026. 🧵↗

Today, @OpenAI launched their Agents SDK developer framework. Until now, agents have mostly been chat-oriented (chat in, chat out), but agents will increasingly be action-oriented (data in, action out). We, @stripe, would love to show you a few financial agents we’ve built! ⤵️↗

Stripe is known for product excellence. The team has consistently launched products that are loved & thrive. It's a key reason they're valued at $36 billion. But they should also be known for content & community excellence. It's why they get 1M+ mos visits. [THREAD] 🧵↗

We just launched an experimental new tutorial for setting up @Stripe. I personally think it's 🤯 but would love to hear thoughts from anyone currently integrating! stripe.com/docs/payments/…↗