Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>).<p>We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation.<p>Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat, and custom enterprise pricing. We’re excited to open-source this because we want to enable developers to build their custom pricing and integration edge cases on top of this base.<p>We’ve launched this repo under an MIT license so any developer can use the tool. Give it a spin for us at either:<p>* test our cloud version at (<a href="https://demo.uselotus.io" rel="nofollow">https://demo.uselotus.io</a>)<p>* self-host here (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>)
and let us know what you think.<p>All feedback is appreciated! If the project is especially relevant to you, follow us and we’ll keep you updated when we’ve fully published all our beta features.
This looks great, congrats on the launch. Weirdly I've seen probably 5 of these pricing as a service layers this week (and a few open source). Is it because I'm thinking about pricing for my own product or is there some powerful "why now" that I'm missing?
Looks potentially interesting to us at Sourcegraph. We built pricing, metering, and license keys into our product ourselves a few years ago because (1) nothing like this existed at the time and (2) a large portion of our customer base was (and still is) self-hosted, so we couldn't depend on some cloud service. Our code is all public, in case you want to poke around and see if it'd be a good solution for us.
Nice! Will have a look into it! What's the difference to Lago? (<a href="https://www.getlago.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.getlago.com/</a>)