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Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by mikaeln »

sqs wrote: post #9

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.

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 components you want, for example, you could plug in your custom metering into our pricing/plan management system.

We are still pretty early so we have had the ability to help migrate custom systems over to Lotus and figure out the most cost-effective solution. Will follow up on email!

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by underyx »

mikaeln wrote: post #8
cpursley wrote: post #6

Neat idea but the main font on the landing page is making my eyes bleed (seriously difficult to parse).

Yeah, whoever put that font in there was crazy (me lol). But noted, thanks!

Did you actually pay for the commercial license of the Quantify font? Interesting choice to spend a company's first dollars :D

Anyway, I do like the color scheme (I assume) referencing Lotus F1 team.

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by joshmanders »

mikaeln wrote: post #13
mfkp wrote: post #12

Lol that mobile registration demo page: https://imgur.io/4T21QYQ

Definitely not built for mobile… with that said, also hiring frontend engs xD

> with that said, also hiring frontend engs xD

Hit me up, I'm open to freelancing. Here's my Who's Freelancing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423893

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by mikaeln »

underyx wrote: post #14
mikaeln wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, whoever put that font in there was crazy (me lol). But noted, thanks!

Did you actually pay for the commercial license of the Quantify font? Interesting choice to spend a company's first dollars :D Anyway, I do like the color scheme (I assume) referencing Lotus F1 team.

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.

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by mikaeln »

Bauernfeind wrote: post #10

Nice! Will have a look into it! What's the difference to Lago? ( https://www.getlago.com/ )

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 something based on the plan they are currently on. This augments your existing authorization system. It is a different approach than what Lago looks like they are going for and they don't support this now.

We also operate under an MIT license vs AGPL it looks like. So our business models may differ in the future. Looks like they definitely have some features we don't cover yet as well. Seems like a great project!

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by canadiantim »

Bauernfeind wrote: post #10

Nice! Will have a look into it! What's the difference to Lago? ( https://www.getlago.com/ )

I would be very interested to know how Lotus compares to Lago too. I’m just about to start using something like this and was leaning towards Lago but was also considering killbill.

That being said, Lotus seems even more ideally suited for me (also a Postgres/Django app so kudos for that stack!).

The main thing I want is ability to centralize all subscription management despite customers potentially using different payment processors (eg stripe vs PayPal or crypto). It certainly looks like Lotus does this as well. I guess I’ll dive in to see how difficult it might be to add a custom payment processor (eg crypto payments), but I definitely think I’m leaning more towards using Lotus now. Thanks for making this!

Re: Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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Post by mikaeln »

canadiantim wrote: post #18
Bauernfeind wrote: post #10

Nice! Will have a look into it! What's the difference to Lago? ( https://www.getlago.com/ )

I would be very interested to know how Lotus compares to Lago too. I’m just about to start using something like this and was leaning towards Lago but was also considering killbill. That being said, Lotus seems even more ideally suited for me (also a Postgres/Django app so kudos for that stack!). The main thing I want is ability to centralize all subscription management despite customers potentially using different pa…

feel free to email me and we can help build the custom payment integration you need. mikael [at] uselotus.io
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