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

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I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lotus name, did you licence it from HCL or IBM?

And I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lio name, did you license it from Lio Holdings LLC: https://uspto.report/TM/90179887

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

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post #31
post #20

I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lotus name, did you licence it from HCL or IBM?

And I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lio name, did you license it from Lio Holdings LLC: https://uspto.report/TM/90179887

Sigh Clearly I haven't licenced my username from anyone because I'm not an entity trading in the same market as a very well known pre-existing brand of the same name.

I'm just some anonymous putz asking an honest question in good faith.

Since HCL don't seem to be using the Lotus name right now, it wasn't clear if they actually bought the rights from IBM during the sale of other assets.

It seemed at least plausible that this new venture might have licensed or bought an unused, established name for market recognition.

If that is the case then I think it's a great bit of marketing and I'd like to know more about how they pulled it off.

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

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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 pow…

That makes a lot of sense regarding the shift from top of funnel acquisition to conversion. The pricing models we’ve been working on definitely fall in this usage-based framework since we’re trying to bootstrap. Thanks for the perspective and good luck!

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

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post #31
post #20

I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lotus name, did you licence it from HCL or IBM?

And I'd love to know the story behind getting the rights to the Lio name, did you license it from Lio Holdings LLC: https://uspto.report/TM/90179887

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