Hi folks! I wanted to share some progress in the tutorial. As of today, it is 50% done. I just completed a very basic implementation of the backend to support the service.

I'm trying to keep cognitive overload as low as possible. That's why you will see how it ignores on purpose a bunch of best practices or securities considerations. My goal is to complete the basic first backend + mobile. And then talk about best practices and security, for now I'm leaving notes like "don't do this in production!".

Here's the link to the tutorial, I'd love to hear your feedback and/or contributions https://blog.abuiles.com/building-your-own-venmo-with-stellar/ ?

A question to other devs out there, what has been your major frustration when building your solution on top of Stellar? Would you be interested in being part of a weekly (bi-weekly) hangout or something similar to talk about building apps with Stellar? If so, fill this form https://goo.gl/forms/hUN8ScgAA3xqFl093

P.S I normally hire an editor when working on books but since this is a free tutorial, I'll let the editing to the crowds and friends ?

Thanks for doing this! I have been looking at trying to do this myself! But glad to see you are going for it! I'll run through your tutorial and give you any feedback I can!

I would also like to thank you very much. You're really creating some great stuff here. Highly appreciated!

5 days later
6 days later

Quick update, the tutorial is almost finished. The backend and mobile wallet sections are completed. You can find the repos in the tutorial.

I'll be working this week on best practices and going through edits recommendations.

I left some things as an exercise to the reader. Hopefully this will help have a better grasp on what's possible with Stellar and how to use the SDK ?

Demo:

2 months later

I haven't had a chance to read through it yet but the UX is amazing. So clear and easy to follow. Well done!

5 months later

I was just wondering about "minimum balance on account" whereas transactions will fail when under funded. Any thoughts about/ideas for drip-feeding tiny amounts of xml (like a payroll) to each account - rather than manually crediting one account at a time?

3 years later

I am actually building anchor for India. The idea is to create a payment corridor for IN and USA. I am open for chat, if anyone's interested with building this with me 🙂

    a month later

    ShriniketDeshmukh Hi Do you have some time to talk about this. I am also looking for someone to team up with regarding a similar project.

      6 months later