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Singapore: The Agentic Nation(swyx.io)
1 points by Rafsark 4mo ago|0 comments
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At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Rafsark 5mo ago|0 comments
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The enterprise AI race won't be won by the best model(github.com)
3 points by Rafsark 6mo ago|1 comments
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AI Chief of Staff(github.com)
2 points by Rafsark 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Rafsark 6mo ago
What do you mean? "Thinking about monetization too much"?
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Lago (Open-Source Billing) is hiring across teams and geos
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Why Building Billing Systems Is So Painful (2024)(dmitry.ie)
43 points by Rafsark 1y ago|18 comments
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Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing)Is Hiring Sr Ruby Engineers (Latam)(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by Rafsark 2y ago
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Is any founder happy with their exit?(sifted.eu)
3 points by Rafsark 2y ago|0 comments
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by Rafsark 2y ago
You are right! The issues usually happen when you add more complexity (tiers, discounts, credit notes, coupons, prepaid credits). Also, what I find very tough is that this is not a « one stop shop »: every single company has it’s own defini
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by Rafsark 2y ago
That’s one of the options, yes. Chartmogul does an amazing job at ingesting and retrieving revenue data from stripe
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by Rafsark 2y ago
You’ve got plenty of paid options with Stripe, but here’s the catch: trying to match what you see in the Stripe dashboard with exact cent accuracy using queries is a total headache. in addition, it would be simpler to add an option to pull
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by Rafsark 2y ago
Yes! And ARR = annual recurring revenue. In addition to other saas metrics like usage revenue that is pure consumption based and sometimes calculated differently
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A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries(osohq.com)
5 points by Rafsark 2y ago|2 comments
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by Rafsark 2y ago
But Amazon uses a custom homegrown usage based billing, not relying on Stripe Billing. This is why Lago exists, to offer a flexible usage-based billing architecture for companies offering usage based or hybrid billing without having to buil
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by Rafsark 2y ago
If you spotted it, it means than images have a greater impact than words.
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by Rafsark 2y ago
We're diving into creating an alternative to one of Stripe's key services which is billing. Especially focusing on areas where Stripe struggles, like mixed or usage-based billing models. We do offer a great UI/UX ;)
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by Rafsark 2y ago
We're diving first into creating an alternative to one of Stripe's key services which is billing. We especially building billing on areas where Stripe struggles, like mixed or usage-based billing models.
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by Rafsark 2y ago
What's a fair price for a budget-friendly hosted version? Lower upfront cost, or maybe a revenue share? We've aimed at enterprise deals for the paid edition, keeping the open-source version widely accessible. Keen to hear your tho
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by Rafsark 2y ago
What's a fair price for a budget-friendly hosted version? Lower upfront cost, or maybe a revenue share? We've aimed at enterprise deals for the paid edition, keeping the open-source version widely accessible. Keen to hear your tho
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Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding(techcrunch.com)
248 points by Rafsark 2y ago|120 comments
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by Rafsark 3y ago
(Lago co-founder here.) I guess it depends on how complex your pricing and monetization process are (is it the same pricing for everyone or custom ; is it a simple subscription: or a is there revenue share, transactional pricing, usage-base
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by Rafsark 3y ago
I could add: - metering - relations with accounting/finance softwares - timezones (if your customers are spread around the globe) - proration - payments and dunnings
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by Rafsark 3y ago
When you don't understand the complexity of billing (revenue ops, top management or marketing), you often end up adding more and more complexity, and engineering teams have no choice. They have to build new billing features
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by Rafsark 3y ago
The use case is tiny at the beginning but the complexity increases over time to be honest. The scope is never as narrow as you think at the beginning of the project. Libraries are great, they can help you implement faster, but if the compan
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by Rafsark 3y ago
Was it a basic subscription model or have you faced challenges with taxes, usage-based components, entitlements, grand fathering?
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by Rafsark 3y ago
Even if you find that guy, you'll have to find 20 more in the next 3 years if the company grows
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by Rafsark 3y ago
Not necessarily open source, but there are a lot of third party tools for accounting (netsuite, quickbooks, xero). And I would say they scale 100x better than an in house tool
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by Rafsark 3y ago
You can add taxes and negotiated contracts to the list tbh
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by Rafsark 3y ago
Navigating this challenge involves the ever-changing boundaries of billing. Initially, you build a monthly billing system, only to find that your team requires a yearly one, which seems relatively straightforward. However, complications ari

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