Why Slash? In case it wasn't obvious already, here's why:

My entire last few months has been dedicated to this. Today we’re excited to finally launch payment processing on Slash. You wouldn’t believe how much work happens after a customer clicks Pay. Businesses still need to understand the payment, move the money, issue refunds, and keep everything reconciled. We brought that full flow into @slashapp. Here’s how it works:

The biggest lie in fintech has been the “all-in-one” platform. We lied too, but today we’re fixing that. Introducing Payment Processing on Slash, powered by @whop You can finally take card payments on invoices through Slash or use our SDK to add checkout to your own product. Now the money that comes in lives where you already hold, spend, and keep the books, giving you operational simplicity and efficiency so you can focus on the needle moving parts of your business.*

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we're launching payment approvals & ach authorization policies @slashapp! this feature allows you to granularly control access around money movement out of your account, and ensures you always have an audit trail of your finances. live in your dashboard today! (if you don't have an account yet, feel free to bother @nickbruhman and he will get you onboarded)

Chase just killed the card 20,000+ ecom brands relied on. For the past year, thousands of US-based DTC founders ran their entire ad spend through the Chase Sapphire for 3x points. Limits were low, but you could pay it off as many times as you wanted and run up unlimited spend, all earning 3x. At @slashapp, we've always prided ourselves on only running profitable offers, so we never have to lower our customers' rates. So as always, we're first movers. For Chase Sapphire Reserve Card customers who successfully open their Slash account before October 31, 2026: - 10k sign-on bonus after $1m in qualifying spend - up to 2.3% cashback * - net 30 terms for eligible companies Like this tweet + reply "first mover" to claim.

We want Slash customers in the rooms where business gets done. Great to work with the teams at @MonacoGTM and @pavoot_com to bring the right people together.

Break free from your legacy bank. Switch to Slash.

The leading narrative is business fintech is confused, AI is transforming this space, and the companies that win will do so by using it to deliver more value to the customer, at better prices - not by becoming AI labs

One of the funnier engineering stories involving Wrath: Back in late 2021, we were starting to lose dominance on Shopify, as the flows were more or less the same across top bots. The flow looked something like this (quite similar to how a human interacted with a site; great job @jmwind) Add to cart (0.5s) -> Load checkout (1s) -> Calculating taxes (1s) -> Submit payment (1s) Given this, there weren't many places to optimize. We realized we could skip the "Calculating taxes" stage by sending an empty total price when placing order (forcing Shopify to do the calculation themselves), and this was an optimization we used for a bit. In the Shopify REST API described in @offline 's tweet, there was also an endpoint that allowed you to combine the "Add to cart" and "Load checkout" stages, into one "Update checkout" stage that took ~0.5s, shaving an additional 1s off the checkout time. Excitedly, we decided to run beta builds with this new flow: Update checkout (0.5s) -> Submit payment (1s) However, every single task got blocked by bot protection. Unconfirmed, but I suspect that Shopify tracked antibot violations as a heuristic score (i.e. because we did 2 "suspicious" actions, updating the checkout via an API a human wouldn't usually hit, and omitting the total price, they blocked us). Seeing this, we decided to look for other ways to optimize. Ultimately, the total price is something that should be relatively predictable given the price of the item/shipping rate & the user's billing address. We hacked together a function to predict it, and this evaded antibot while retaining the skipped "Calculating taxes" stage. (screenshot below - we had to handle edge cases for certain states that are tax exempt up to a threshold, etc.) We launched this to users and saw major success. However, I happened to be from Michigan, and I would always test with a flat 6% tax rate. This would make shoe amounts come out relatively cleanly (e.g. 190 * 1.06 = $201.40, so no rounding was needed). Unfortunately, NYC has a tax rate of 8.875%, meaning that 190 * 1.08875 = $206.8625. No matter how long we tried, we couldn't figure out a deterministic direction Shopify's internal API would round (sometimes this would come out to $206.86, sometimes $206.87)... We didn't really have a solution to this so we ultimately accepted that you'd have a lower chance of buying a shoe depending on if your local sales tax rate was more digits. I'm sorry 😂

At one point, Footsites implemented nearly their entire release control plane in Fastly’s VCL layer, including waiting rooms, rate limits, caching, product launch timers, etc Their origin servers trusted Fastly to enforce those controls before requests ever reached them The trick was that Fastly let customers configure their own routing in VCL, so if you set up a separate Fastly service with Foot Locker’s origin as its backend, your requests would be routed through Fastly's network and be treated as trusted internal traffic, bypassing Foot Locker’s public-facing VCL entirely In practice, this let us skip the queue on new drops, check out restocks early despite the countdown page, avoid rate limits, and basically sidestep virtually every other form of protection enforced at the edge Got clipped and re-discovered a couple months later during the hyper royals drop @pristine1862 @destinbar @amalho03

Had the opportunity to sit down with @carmelkita ahead of Kita's recent seed raise. An inspiring company with an even better story. Here’s how it started:

StreetTalk has reached 8 figures in ARR and $100M in attributable revenue. Today we're Introducing AGC: Authentic Generated Content™. AGC is the world's first ad that nobody knows is an ad. Advertising has become fake: -Celebrity endorsements became Influencer Marketing. -Influencer marketing became "UGC" -and now we have AI UGC... People want to buy from other people. 71% of consumers regret influencer driven purchases.  We built AGC to be completely different.  How it works: 1. We record hours of footage of real people using your product.  2. We clip these reactions into creative using our team of real human editors. The key difference: instead of strategizing content, we shoot hours of real authentic reactions then we clips these reactions rather than the other way around. It's @garyvee method of documenting and not creating. So far it's working: on avg AGC leads to a 4x ROAS on new customer revenue.  Everything in my life has lead to this moment. In highschool I was called “an idiot ”. I was in special ed. I dropped out of college with a 2.1 GPA with full conviction Street Interviews were the future of advertising.  I had a massive chip on my shoulder. I still do. I channel that energy into building StreetTalk. This is my life’s work. If you’re a client, friend or supporter, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.