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Twitter Stripe MRR

Twitter Stripe MRR

Node script to calculate your total monthly revenue from Stripe (using payouts) and update your Twitter bio (location) based on your MRR goal
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Deployment
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Acknowledgements
8. Support

Twitter Stripe MRR

Node script that calculates your total monthly revenue from Stripe (using payouts) and updates your Twitter bio (location) based on your MRR goal.

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Built With

• Node.js
• Stripe API
• Twitter API

Getting Started

To use this script locally, make sure you have the prerequisites and then follow the installation steps.

Prerequisites

• Node and npm(download here)
• Stripe API key (get from Dashboard here)
• Twitter API keys
  • Sign up on Developer Portal
  • Either in your project app or Standalone app, click the Key icon
  • Get the Consumer Keys (key and secret)
  • Get the Access token and secret

Installation

1. Click "Use this template" and then clone locally

2. yarn

3. cp .env.example .env

4. Add your API keys to .env

5. Run script in dry-run mode (doesn't actually post to Twitter):

   yarn dryRun
   
   # or run directly
   node index.js --dry-run

6. Run the script and post to Twitter:

   yarn start
   
   # or run directly
   node index.js

Usage

Here are a couple screenshots of people using this in the indie hacker space:

Deployment

This script will run on a regular cadence (once a week on Sunday, see cron syntax in run.yaml) out-of-the-box using GitHub Actions.

Assuming you clicked the "use this template", follow these steps:

1. Add your .env variables to Settings > Secrets and ensure Actions are enabled.
2. That's it!

You can verify that everything is working by going to Actions > Health check > Run workflow.

This will perform a dry-run where you can double-check that everything is working correctly.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Acknowledgements

• @philipyoungg for the emoji in bio inspiration
• @yongfook for the idea
• Sreeram Venkitesh for the Twitter API refresher
• Jake Feasel for the kFormatter function on Stack Overflow
• Matthew Mullin for Stripe monthly revenue help on Stack Overflow
• Leo Nagano for writing up a recap on Indie Hackers

Project inspired by this tweet

Link to tweet

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