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Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

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

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Post by rgbrgb »

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?

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

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Post by diegoesc »

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…

Hey I'm Diego CTO/co-founder at lotus

We actually tried to build our payment processing infrastructure in a pretty modular way to make it super quick to integrate new processors. You can take a look at the extensibility guide here: https://docs.uselotus.io/docs/extensibility/integrate-paymen...

We'll be working on adding more options in the next weeks, but in the meantime if you need it ASAP we're happy to work with you to make it happen :)

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

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Post by sfobiab »

rgbrgb wrote: post #21

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?

https://tier.run/

https://getlago.com

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

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Post by mikaeln »

rgbrgb wrote: post #21

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?

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 acts as a no-code app for iteration (but can be customized for new edge cases through code/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?

So many valid answers, but the major ones are the rising popularity of usage-based and hybrid pricing models and more importantly a shift in SaaS from growth = "acquisition" to growth = profitability and expansion in addition to acquisition. The economic shifts are forcing companies to ask how can we capture more of the value that we have created, and a great solution is reconsidering pricing.

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

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Post by mikaeln »

Mave83 wrote: post #28

I clicked on demo with my mobile, got a very unusable login prompt, and decided it's not good enough for me at the moment.

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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