We shipped Stripe Projects recently and developer advocate Ben Smith set out to see what it was like to actually build with it.
The shift "I have accounts with tools" ➡️ "I have a project that can assemble itself."
A small change until coding agents become the primary builders. Modular, headless infra means the agent just plugs in what it needs.
See Ben’s full breakdown on the blog: https://t.co/ddgTCWN95O
getting few DMs on how/if this works: yup, one ‘import’ command *literally* creates new accounts or links to all the providers in the stack, provisions them in batch, and returns the full set of keys & env vars you need.
wild scenes
Stripe's @collision says Stripe Projects gives agents the ability to buy what they need to orchestrate your vibecoding projects end-to-end:
"You guys have probably had the experience of when you're vibecoding away, you are the adult that needs to reach for things on the high shelves for [your agent]."
"It's much better at writing code than you, it's able to architect an application for you. So what do you need to do? You need to go sign up for an API key."
"[With Stripe Projects], you are able to agentically do stuff in the wider world. You can hook up your Codex in Stripe Projects, and if you want to deploy a website, it can go sign up for Vercel for you, and it can pay for it."
So now, what was previously a multi-step process where [the agent] could kind of do some version — it could orchestrate Vercel but not sign up for it — now it can pay for Vercel, it can pay for Cloudflare, it can pay for BrowserBase if you want to do headless web browsing."
"We think the agents are going to get so much more powerful, because we're giving them the ability to actually go buy what they need in the wider world, and then it can do way more end-to-end."
Stripe Projects in Cursor 3:
"Provision any new services I need"
Railway, PostHog, Vercel provisioned in a single prompt, with environment variables synced.
You can now browse the growing list of providers with agentic provisioning via Stripe Projects. "Claude, integrate PostHog. Make no mistakes." works straight from the CLI, including creating an account and API keys for you. https://t.co/4j6IJNec4R
Big moment @jeff_weinstein.
Zero-human companies being build autonomously using https://t.co/bJyOd1iD2W to spin up all the infra that it needs programatically.
What a time to be alive! No more messing around!
s/o to @dotta too!
Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in payment volume last year. They just built a CLI that lets AI agents provision and pay for every service in your stack with one command.
Read that again.
Karpathy writes a blog post about how painful it is to wire up services manually. Patrick Collison quotes it and announces the fix. The fix happens to route every agent's billing through Stripe.
Vercel, Supabase, Neon, PlanetScale, PostHog, Clerk, Railway, Turso, Chroma, RunloopAI. All provisioned from the terminal. All billed through Stripe. One payment method stored once, shared across every provider via tokenized credentials.
This is the tollbooth strategy executed at infrastructure level. Stripe already handles payments for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Midjourney, and Vercel. Now they're the layer that lets those tools' agents set up the services underneath them too. Every AI coding agent that spins up a database, connects auth, or adds analytics is doing it through Stripe's pipes.
The timing tells you everything. Stripe's valuation jumped 74% in one year to $159 billion. Their Revenue suite (Billing, Invoicing, Tax) is on track for $1 billion ARR. 25% of all Delaware corporations are already created through Stripe Atlas. And the new bet is that agents will provision more software, faster, than any human team ever did, and every transaction flows through one chokepoint.
The company that solved "accept payments on the internet" just solved "let robots buy software on the internet." The second market is going to be bigger than the first.
👂 For anyone who's played with @stripe projects:
Would you be open to sharing your experience with me via text/phone/video this weekend for ~10 minutes?
(Would _love_ your detailed, candid, brutal feedback.)
DM or jweinstein at stripe dot com
for any builders glued to their laptop this beautiful sunday:
i’m looking for another handful of beta testers to try a new, somewhat experimental command line tool and give us (critical, detailed) feedback.
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