We built a small bot that allows us to open the door at our office via Slack. — With a constantly growing merchant base (we’re currently serving over 58k+ merchants) comes an increasing number of employees. When we reached 80 employees back in April, we moved a few of our teams to a new office space just in front of our main office. We called it Mollie Studios. …

Challenges in building the most advanced payment gateway for Spree Commerce. — We just shipped the official Mollie payment gateway for Spree Commerce, the most popular Ruby on Rails e-commerce framework. We think this is the most advanced payment gateway available for Spree. Mollie as a company mostly works in PHP and JavaScript, but for this project, I submerged myself in Ruby…

How we built an Electron app that got 500.000+ downloads. — Back in February, we shipped Caption; the easiest way to find and download subtitles on your Mac. On release, Caption garnered quite some attention and got featured on Product Hunt, Github, Designer News, Reddit and The Next Web. A lot has happened since then. Caption has been downloaded over 175.000…