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Unlike traditional Saas, you can still use Sublime after 3 years. You just won't get regular updates.

I drive a 18 year old car. I don't need all the upgrades I just need something to drive me from a to b. This business model is similar.

PS I believe you can use it without paying anything. They nag you to pay but in a very subtle way.

Sublime rules.

I started my career with Brackets, then Sublime, then Atom for a short while. Then switched to VS Code for a few years and just recently switched back to Sublime because of how slow VS Code became.

Also great pricing! One time purchase for Sublime is still available in 2025!

This also makes matt's initial claim about wpengine being a bastardized fork hilarious since wordpress.com is even more hacked up.

Also, you cannot install most plugins on wordpress.com unless you're on the business plan.

It's more like gaining backdoor access to the bank's server.

At this stage no attack has happened(but can happen)

Stripe undoubtly has great docs. The problem is:

- Them adding a ton of products that are automatically integrated/opted-in their default payments stack

- This has massively increases the api surface, and the complexity of integrating stripe has gone up.

- And to top it off, they charge for every single "feature" that they automatically added in their payments stack.

Nope, b2b saas. We charge a decent amount.

Scroll down Stripe's pricing page, they will charge you for literally everything.

We have annual pricing and that definitely results in lower fees and other stuff. But only a small percentage of our users are on the annual plan.

i don't use a 3rd party billing solution. I straight up created my own.

If you have a single type of pricing(eg, variable, or tiered) its very easy rolling your own.

The issues happen when you change from variable to tiered(or vice versa), change from anniversary to calendary dates, add coupons, per user custom pricing, credits, etc etc.

I don't recommend building your own if you aren't familiar with Stripe or any other billing system. Once you understand how billing works, feel free to make a custom billing solution.

Exactly, Lago seems like its riding the open source wave. Nobody reasonable is going to self host this.

100%. Stripe is a blackhole.

For my current project, I pay nearly 5-7% on each transaction to Stripe. For my next project, I'm implementing custom billing and using Stripe just as a payment processor.

A tesla base model is 60k, which is just below the luxury tax. If you purchase this car, you'll get all the ev tax benefits without the luxury tax downsides.

hoppscotch is a good alternative. Even insomnia is going down the drain.

Exactly. I get where the author is coming from but if you allow tech companies to perpentually save your data and try to cross link it to new accounts, it sets a bad precedent.

Would be interesting to inspect element and see if there are new radio options.