I tried to use it for a new SaaS product - but their plans start at 3000$/mo.<p>It seems like they have things backwards. The small fry like me don't want to self-host, we want a managed solution. The big fishes have enough scale to self-host.
Selling to developers is where i know it will struggle... Developers are cheap ass and would rather build it themselves at 10x the opportunity cost. And the moment it attempts to monetise itself in some form, there'll be a massive "betrayal" exodus a la Redis.<p>I know, cuz I am one.
Maybe I’m old and my feeling for what open-source means haven’t adapted to the changing reality, but whenever I see “open-source” and “$22 in funding” in one sentence I immediately think “open-source my ass”.
If I still have to pay the processing fees, what's the advantage here?<p>Having to maintain my own payments stack (and PCI compliance) sounds like a massive distraction.
Similarly there is <a href="https://hyperswitch.io" rel="nofollow">https://hyperswitch.io</a> open source written in Rust.<p>Lago is written in Ruby.<p>I found few other open source billing systems written in Java.<p>Anyone knows anything written in nodeJS?
Their github README uses a Drake meme lol<p><a href="https://github.com/getlago/lago">https://github.com/getlago/lago</a><p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/gsrhUXm" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/gsrhUXm</a><p>I'd never thought I'd see Meme-ification of technical docs.... oh god
Anyone have an actual Stripe Payments alternative? I'm stuck on PayPal since Stripe doesn't want to work with us, only with our closed source competition.
Raised series A of 15M on a valuation (rumored, not announced) of 100M.<p>7M was seed, raised in 2023 according to crunch base.<p>Sounds like they aren't trying to be an entire stripe replacement (from the last paragraph of the linked article).<p>Anyway an interesting story of a successful startup pivot starring a passionate HN post.
Can you please explain, why the ruby engineer vacancy is remote only within certain countries - FR, PT, GB, NL, ET, and IT? Why if I live in Latvia or Poland, or Sweden, I can't work with you? I don't want to call you out, but it's just interesting to understand why it's like that and specifically, why we can't try to make the geography more diverse, at least within EU?<p><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs/RvvzKuM-sr-back-end-ruby-engineer">https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs/RvvzKuM-sr-b...</a>
This is the HN post (mentioned in the article) that resulted in their pivot from marketing into billing:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450</a>
ELI5: what is the value proposition for Lago? That is open-source?<p>I am not a Stripe customer but I interacted with it as a normal user (e.g. KYC) and was impressed by their UX/UI, an area where open source projects doesn't excel at all. UX/UI is really hard to grasp.<p>Stripe customers look for a strong finance platform, they don't care if it's open source or not. Also, from the business perspective you need to have a hard drive to manage a company like this.