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lago
- Pricing AI Is Hard
- Charging Customers Is Hard
- Performance inching isn't a strategy, even for AI models
- Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine
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Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding
We shared a few thoughts about « why oss does not win by being cheaper », we are trying o find the balance between oss, quality, sustainability, indeed.
https://github.com/getlago/lago/wiki/Open-Source-does-not-wi...
It got a fair share of comments on HN as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37682684
- Performance Isn't That Important
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Lago Is Hiring to Scale the Open-Source Alternative to Stripe Billing
https://www.getlago.com/
Reach out at [email protected] or directly through https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs
Last but not least: we’ve historically took a little bit too much time to answer applications (we’re still a small team), and I’d like to personally apologize for this.
- The open source billing startup that wants to take on Stripe
- Pains of building your own billing system
node-microinvoice
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Open-source API to generate invoices
Not sure this actually solves a real problem. A lot of the questions/problems mentioned in the article are already things being addressed by any service worth using.
At the end of the day, you just need to generate a PDF from a template. The template is a solved problem. Invoices generally do not have that huge amount of variability in terms of layout.
I have been using microinvoice (https://github.com/baptistejamin/node-microinvoice) for the past couple of months and it's been a breeze. It uses PDFKit underneathe and has been working really well. I don't think PDF generation is a task that should require using Chromium. There's pandoc & other libraries that can easily do this at a much lower cost to both resources and finance.
The blog posts sounds like its solving a problem that doesn't exist. Generating invoices _at scale_? Is scalibility really a problem here? Generating a PDF takes a couple of milliseconds. Rent a $5 VPS and it can generate all sorts of PDFs for you without an issue for a long time before you'd start worrying about scalability. Heck this sort of thing doesn't even need to be a dedicated service.
Not to downplay anyone's hard work but Lago just doesn't sound like it's solving a real problem.
What are some alternatives?
killbill - Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
lago-api - Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing
lotus - Open Source Pricing & Packaging Infrastructure
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
tier - The easiest way to add pricing to your SaaS. Get billing over with.
openmeter - Cloud Metering for AI, Billing and FinOps. Collect and aggregate millions of usage events in real-time.
hyperswitch - An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
lotus - Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
sourcegraph - Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
billabear - Subscription Management and Billing System