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See how your site looks like on mobile with content blockers turned on. For me the navigation bar doesn’t collapse and covers the whole screen.
It loaded slow but apart from that it looks normal. I use firefox on android with ublock origin.
This article comes at a welcome time for me. I've been building out a usage-based B2B product and have wracked my brain on how to properly implement billing (without having to pay large upfront fees or integrate a more complex gateway that I don't really need). I'd never heard of Lago before but I think I'll give it a try.
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If Lago builds a billing UI and API that can connect to Stripe Billing, Paddle, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc. then that is a huge opportunity.
why exactly? is this just some form of xkcd-style "there were too many APIs so i built a superAPI" line of thinking? or is there something more fundamental about this problem you are referring to
The other reason is that Stripe Billing is stupidly good. So good in fact, that they could raise they rates from 0.5% to 1-1.5% and most people would pay up since migration would cause downtime and man-hours. I use Stripe Billing now, but could integrate with Lago once and easily switch between payment processors.
Their account got banned too many times :)
I work at an HR/Payroll company with a phenomenal app that we put our blood, sweat, and tears into every single day. And every single day I clock in with Oracle Time and Labor. There's a legal reason for this and we do it for compliance. I'm guessing Stripe is in the same boat with this product despite its flaws.
What's the legal reason?
(I work on Stripe Billing). This is a question we raise fairly regularly internally at Stripe. The real, prosaic answer is because when we started working on Stripe Billing in 2017, Stripe had already built an internal billing system to bill its own customers. Stripe was 7 years old at that point. At the time, we got lots of feedback from the folks who had built that system. Our goal was to build a flexible billing s…
Lago is really gunning for Stripe Billing. Is Lago barking up the wrong tree? Or is there really an untapped opportunity here?
We do not bark up the wrong tree, but try to give our point of view about the perfect billing system
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I loved the answer but it's a good point to raise in return, what makes migration to internal billing so unappetising for the teams at Stripe?
Hopefully because there's an actual business to be building.
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Thanks for some internal insights. I think the original post wasn't making the point that such a use case is not possible to build but rather that the architecture and design choices of Stripe Billing are not optimized for these use cases and don't make it easy.
Hi neosat! I work at Lago and co-wrote the post, this was exactly our intention. Thanks for pointing that out :)
I work at an HR/Payroll company with a phenomenal app that we put our blood, sweat, and tears into every single day. And every single day I clock in with Oracle Time and Labor. There's a legal reason for this and we do it for compliance. I'm guessing Stripe is in the same boat with this product despite its flaws.
Twilio is the same. They use Zoom & Slack internally, not their own video and chat offerings. Dogfooding is a good thing. You’d be surprised how few companies actually do it (which is terribly shocking).
+ you get to keep up with their advances so you’re not relying on your customers telling you about your competition
+ in the case of chat apps, if your infrastructure goes down you can still work as a team to coordinate the remediation