Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you get paid through Stripe

ejo4041 · on Sept 4, 2015

I have a filter on my gmail so my phone plays the coin sound from Super Mario Bros. every time I get a Paypal/Etsy/Ebay/Amazon payment. It's quite satisfying to hear that throughout the day.

andrey-p · on Sept 4, 2015

A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.

willcodeforfoo · on Sept 4, 2015

Can you elaborate? I've been looking for a way to do this on an iPhone.

g4k · on Sept 4, 2015

You can use Pushover for that: https://pushover.net/ Just install the client on your phone and ping the API on each sale.

micro-ram · on Sept 4, 2015

VIP Tag/Folder http://www.howtogeek.com/208904/how-to-only-get-notification...

LaurentVB · on Sept 4, 2015

We implemented something similar 5 months ago, but wired to an event in segment (we don't use stripe). The bot would post a random gif from giphy tagged with 'money'. After a while we became tired of seeing Nicki Minaj appear in our slack...

dewey · on Sept 4, 2015

I just realized that my favorite Nicki Minaj gifs are not included in that set. Pull request submitted!

ihsw · on Sept 4, 2015

For those curious -- here are the new images.

https://imgur.com/BRDCAXR,JL8AwZw,JWnWT39,tIentMt

confluence · on Sept 4, 2015

You quickly realize that this is a bad idea when the payments come in fast enough.

madeofpalk · on Sept 4, 2015

Lets solve that problem when we get to it :)

confluence · on Sept 4, 2015

I'm simply speaking from experience.

Killswitch · on Sept 4, 2015

Embrace it. Use the Mario Bro's coin sound, so then when they come in rapidly, you can pretend he's running through a long line of coins.

ISL · on Sept 4, 2015

Seems like it'd be easy to rescale the notifications to every Nth transaction, or whatever the goal is, when the rate got higher.

YorickPeterse · on Sept 4, 2015

It's called a minimum viable product.

atom-morgan · on Sept 4, 2015

Even more noise at work. Like an office alarm that goes off for every new user.

timthimmaiah · on Sept 4, 2015

For Hipchat users, here's a fork of this I made: https://github.com/tim-thimmaiah/make-it-rain

sgberlin · on Sept 4, 2015

I've wrote a little console script that played a cash register sound after a google analytics conversion. We only had a few sales a day though.

nailer · on Sept 4, 2015

Current GIFs:

pfalke · on Sept 4, 2015

All on one page: http://fitztrev.github.io/make-it-rain/