Thinc Iowa: A tyrannical rant

Hopefully this blog entry isn’t misconstrued as a personal entry. I’m  jazzed about this event and being able to speak at it is an honor.

It’s not because I love to talk either. It’s because I get to share a new aspect of the Dwolla story, one that I’ve never had a stage to go in-depth about and elaborate on. The SPN crew is giving me a platform to do just that: rant.

Dwolla’s story isn’t unique in the start-up world. Build something unique that solves a huge problem, work hard, get some funding, work harder, expand. Rinse, repeat. What actually does make us unique is that: (more…)

"But wait, I thought you were a payments company?"

Could Dwolla create a better brand experience and innovate inside of a whole new industry?

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Tapping the brakes…

Working at Dwolla is kind of like traveling at warp speed some days. Some days it comes by surprise.

With this release mayhem over the past month, we have not mentioned yet that everything we have released thus far was originally slated for one day, August 24th.

Spreading it out like this was supposed to make it easier to communicate, understand, integrate, and support. Honestly, it feels like at times we’re riding a roller coaster that we thought was going to end at the last turn, and now it’s speeding up again, and some news just hit… So hold on because it isn’t over yet! (more…)

Conferences / A Discussion: Life as a moving target right now

We’ve been asked a few times where we’ll be over the next few months. Here is what we’ve confirmed so far:

RAMP Conference > Chicago, IL: Sept 13-15

Future of Mobile Conference >London, UK: Sept 16

Ad Age: Digital West > San Francisco, CA: Sept. 20

Twilio Conference > San Francisco, CA:  Sept. 21-22

CUNA Technology Summit > San Antonio, TX: Sept. 25-28

Chicago Ideas Week > Chicago, IL:  Oct. 10-16

NACHA Mega Conference > Boston, MA: Oct. 19-20

Thinc Iowa > Des Moines, IA: October 20-21

Dublin Web Summit > Dublin, Ireland: Oct. 27-28

DCWEEK > Washington, D.C.: Nov. 10-11

Drop us a line if you’d like to put something together face-to-face. We’ll be on the move! Oh, and be sure to check out our crew’s Plancast and Lanyrd pages. Never know where we might pop-up

Developer Love, A Day Late

Yesterday was Programmer’s Day. In belated honor of it, we are releasing some much needed developer support changes. It goes without saying that our API documentation and support systems have been lacking. That changes today. Brandon W and Karrie have logged many hours in the past weeks resolving this, with Brandon R making it all pretty and usable.

New API Documentation

First off, I’d like to welcome you to our new API documentation. Our APIs have been heavily documented with detailed examples of how each endpoint functions, how to create an application, and information about available e-commerce plugins. All in one, easy to navigate place. We are happy to say that you no longer have to dig through a bunch of forum threads to find what you were looking for.

OAuth 2.0 Support

The second thing is that we are finally announcing that we support OAuth 2.0. We listened to you (and your many appreciated complaints) and moved OAuth 1.0 to the back. No more having to worry about your signature not being just right. Getting a token is now super simple. If you still have tokens from OAuth 1.0, they’ll still work!

Get Satisfaction

Lastly, we are *finally* moving away from using vBulletin as our developer support channel. After researching how other cool companies handle their developer support, we found that the system Twilio uses is pretty slick. So you will now find support on Get Satisfaction. Going this route allows you to not only ask questions and get answers, but also vote up questions that are important to you. This helps us know where to focus our efforts.

I hope you find these changes as helpful as I do. We love seeing what developers do with Dwolla’s APIs and we hope that these changes make it easier to make more awesome things!