Integrated Stripe

Until now, it has been possible to use Valist for free. Now, you will instead be met with a paywall after the trial ends, and deployments will no longer be possible to start until a payment method is added.

Although stripe just added their hosted portal to manage subscriptions, I chose to integrate their API directly in my application to provide a more cohesive user experience. It took me about one day to implement this so maybe I could have saved some time using their portal. However, getting the experience of using their API forced me to learn more about how their platform works and getting experience I am sure will benefit me in the future.

This was the last major piece in developing my service. Now I can worry less about having an unfinished product and continue to iterate.