We could've onboarded our newest teammates with a slide deck. Instead, Dots, we take them straight to the source. At our recent offsite, the Dots team experienced two of our own customers firsthand: a personal chef from CookinGenie for a very special 5-star dinner, and a Don't Tell Comedy live show, where the team sat in the front row. You can explain what a customer does with your product. Or you can watch a chef move through a kitchen for a room of strangers, or feel a comedy room come alive, and see, in real time, what it looks like when they're thriving. For the newest members of the team, it was the fastest onboarding we could've given them: not a pitch about our customers, but proof of what happens when Dots is working the way it should.
Dots
Financial Services
San Francisco, California 2,896 followers
Building the infrastructure to pay the next generation of earners.
About us
Dots is building a multichannel payouts API for marketplaces. Our API lets a marketplace pay their sellers in the ways they want to be paid, including Venmo, Paypal, ACH and Zelle. As more Americans earn a living by becoming a 1099 worker, marketplaces need to provide flexible payout options and we make supporting these payouts easy through a single API.
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https://usedots.com
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- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
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reading this warmed my heart! we built Dots to make sure people get paid for their hard work and the people paying have an amazing experience doing so. appreciate the shoutout Matthew Cline!
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Joyful tools for founding engineers: (1) Railway I host all my personal projects here, and it's what I went with for our startup. It's just a joy to use, and it lets you manage your web app, database, cron jobs, and logs from a single control panel, with shared env vars amongst them. (2) Dots More people need to know about this company. It is the epitome of YC's "build something so good people tell their friends about it." They make paying creators as easy as a single api call. Good support, payout rails creators want, and more economical than Stripe marketplace for the creator niche. This is not an ad lol. (3) Wispr Flow I will never use anything else until Elon lets me prompt Claude from my Neuralink. (4) Resend Can you tell I love developer friendly APIs yet? Their homepage copy says, "Email API that just works." They aren't lying. (5) GitHub Issues I think many folks would be surprised how far you can push engineering team productivity with simple GH issues. We're waiting for the day we need to reach for Linear, but in the meantime, we are shipping at a pretty monstrous pace and managing it all from Issues just fine. (6) Instant Pot Brands Dumped in a chuck roast yesterday AM, pressed Start, locked in to implement credits-based pricing, came back to a delicious dinner. Shoutout Instant Pot, real ones know. What are you using to ship fast? (Or, what are you favorite one pot recipes?)
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Nothing bonds a team like watching your coworkers dance to hips don't lie. Especially when one of those coworkers is the co-founder and CTO (hi, yes, it's me). We brought the Dots team together for an offsite last week and rented a 15-bedroom Airbnb so everyone could actually spend time together. Sometimes in a conference room. Sometimes in the lazy river. And sometimes, at a game show night where everyone unleashed their competitive side, excited to look silly to win more points. It's easy to set vague and lofty goals for an offsite: build relationships, get ideas for the next quarter, move faster. But the only way to turn those goals into reality is by doing the awkward, ridiculous stuff: yelling out (wrong) answers, or sitting in the front row of a Don't Tell Comedy show to be picked apart by the comedians. (yes, that was me as well) Here's why the ridiculous stuff matters: once you've all looked as stupid as possible in front of each other, nobody's bracing before they speak anymore. There's no dumb questions and no performing, just all the ideas and pitches people have had for weeks coming out. I came back with more energy, more trust, and way fewer filters (and, hopefully, slightly less fear of dancing in front of coworkers). big thanks to Simran H. for making the whole thing happen.
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sometimes it's truly insane how smart the Dots team is. we just wrapped up our offsite. you'd think in Scottsdale, Arizona, with temperatures hitting 120, we'd all just be at the pool. but nope. the team wanted to do a think-and-drink: 5 minutes each to rant about your favorite topic. we got philosophy. internet slang. mathematical cryptography. and so much more. honestly it's a little vulnerable, ranting about what you love to a room of coworkers, but nobody held back. a two-hour session ran to SIX, because 1) well, we all love talking, and 2) we all had QUESTIONS. love working with these amazing people who will dive into topics they'd never heard of 5 minutes ago and ask questions for 30 more. i'm super lucky <3
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Thrilled to welcome Will Hopkins to Dots as Founding Growth Lead! Will joins us from Gainbridge, where he spent the last 2.5 years building and scaling marketing programs at every step. Before that, he sharpened his growth chops at Songtradr, spanning everything from consumer and product marketing to social, influencer, and affiliate campaigns. He brings a rare blend of big-picture marketing strategy and hands-on growth execution, and we couldn't be more excited to have him on board. Welcome to Dots, Will, we can't wait to see what you build with us! 👏 (P.S. he's been on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, so he's definitely no stranger to the spotlight!)
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At our NYC Tech Week panel, Hanne Winarsky from Substack broke down why the platform grows the way it does. It's not the algorithm. It's the network: one publication recommending another, collaborations between writers, comments, live conversations. All of it quietly is built to move an audience from one person to the next. That trust is the whole signal. Every one of those moments eventually turns into subscribers, and subscribers turn into revenue for the writer. What's easy to miss is that collaboration also means more people splitting the reward. A byline, a guest post, a joint live session, that's often two or three people who need to get paid from one thing. Dots sits underneath these exact systems, so payouts keep up with exactly how creators actually work together.
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Sahil Hasan at VidCon, on how platforms win: hand-pick your first creators, have deals ready before you even reach out, then let word of mouth do the rest. It's a good reminder that growth loops start small and specific. We see it up close — the platforms getting this right are usually also the ones who've made getting paid painless for those first creators.
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Opened NY Times today and loved seeing a Dots customer in there! Been a fan of Reading Rhythms since before they joined Dots, so it's great to see this. In a world where everyone's on their phones (including me!), they've built something rare, real people, in real rooms, actually connecting. Community like that is hard to build and easy to underrate. Congrats Ben Bradbury and team, so deserved
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