mikaeln
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mikael[at]uselotus.io
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Comment · 3 years ago
Really excited for this!
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats on the launch!
Comment · 3 years ago
Love your repos
Comment · 3 years ago
Hmmmm, interesting
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats, this is a unique offering in the OSS space to my understanding
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats on the launch team! How do you plan on monetizing down the road?
Comment · 3 years ago
Awesome work! Congrats on the launch.
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats. I'm also a COSS founder and think this is a very smart step for a product like rerun. Feel free to ping me if you want to chat open-source more.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm a cofounder at Lotus (https://github.com/uselotus/lotus).
First, congrats on the launch Lago. I've been very impressed with your ability to educate devs about the intricacies of billing and you are certainly pushing the entire space forward.
While you offer coupons and credit notes, there are features you don't have that we have prioritized and built, including, usage alerts, plan versioning, gauge metrics, custom sql etc. etc. Point being I think its unfair to say we are a subset of your product.
In addition, we have a 25+ year billing expert on our team who has been CTO of a startup processing $300 million a year.
Lastly, I don't think it's fair to make statements about our customers just because we haven't "announced" them yet.
Happy to chat more with anyone about our differences.
Comment · 3 years ago
Neat read! thanks
Comment · 4 years ago
Won't say too much on this just yet, except that we did not pay a large amount for the rights as of now
Comment · 4 years ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
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.