mikaeln

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by mikaeln 3y ago
Really excited for this!
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by mikaeln 3y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by mikaeln 3y ago
Love your repos
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Show HN: Lotus – open-source pricing engine(demo.uselotus.io)
14 points by mikaeln 3y ago|1 comments
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Hmmmm, interesting
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Congrats, this is a unique offering in the OSS space to my understanding
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Congrats on the launch team! How do you plan on monetizing down the road?
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Awesome work! Congrats on the launch.
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Congrats. I'm also a COSS founder and think this is a very smart step for a product like rerun. Feel free to ping me if you want to chat open-source more.
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by mikaeln 4y ago
I'm a cofounder at Lotus ( https://github.com/uselotus/lotus ). First, congrats on the launch Lago. I've been very impressed with your ability to educate devs about the intricacies of billing and you are certai
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Neat read! thanks
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Won't say too much on this just yet, except that we did not pay a large amount for the rights as of now
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Sorry, none of our frontend is built for or meant to be used on mobile yet, so if that was what you were planning on doing then I would agree it isn't quite there yet.
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Thanks! Indeed, there are a lot of approaches to this problem. We spent some time refining Lotus so that we focus on creating new solutions rather than competing with others in a similar space. Our approach is pricing&packaging that act
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by mikaeln 4y ago
feel free to email me and we can help build the custom payment integration you need. mikael [at] uselotus.io
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by mikaeln 4y ago
I see one key difference in that we are focusing on pricing+packaging as a combined problem. We include the ability to add feature entitlements and usage limits in your plans and then programmatically check whether a customer has access to
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by mikaeln 4y ago
We paid of course (would be a bad look if we didn't being an open source company). Worth the small cost for an opinionated look.
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Definitely not built for mobile… with that said, also hiring frontend engs xD
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Definitely think Lotus might be useful to you, especially since you can self-host. Just took a quick look into your repo, but will do a deeper dive a bit later. The nice thing is that we've built Lotus so that you can plug in the compo
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Yeah, whoever put that font in there was crazy (me lol). But noted, thanks!
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Not quite. Lotus doesn't facilitate payments. Our job ends after we calculate the invoice a customer owes. We integrate with Stripe (working on Bill.com integration) so you can change customers through their payment gateway. Lotus offe
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Thanks! Excited to keep building!
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Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure(github.com)
120 points by mikaeln 4y ago|31 comments
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by mikaeln 4y ago
I agree. Thinking back now, it was tough to appreciate just how unique, bizarre, and special the experience was of studying everyday at a place people travel across the world to take pictures at. Strange.
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by mikaeln 4y ago
Very easy to plan in theory.In reality, if you've been at a place like Jane Street for 10 years you mostly likely will only leave if you are retiring.