Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing. Contribute to getlago/lago development by creating an account on GitHub.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6355296

I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard, “This product is X, but open source.”

And I’ll admit it—I’ve done the same when describing Lago. When I’m not in the “startup pitch” mood, I default to, “We’re Stripe Billing, but open source”. Or my co-founder might say, “We’re like an open-source Chargebee.” Frankly, it gets the job done.

Of course, if that’s all there was to us, we would have failed by now. What we’ve learned is that open-source tools can’t rely on being an open-source alternative to an already successful business. A developer can’t just imitate a product, tag on an MIT license, and call it a day. As awesome as [commercial] open source is, in a vacuum, it’s not enough to succeed.

  • Kaldo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If there’s one lesson we should have all learned by now, it’s that it really sucks to depend on the whims of some corporation for software you use often. They all go bad inevitably.

    I also switched from obsidian to logseq and I really like it so far, I just wish it had a better smarter search. People recommend queries but they are annoying and clunky to use when you just want to quickly look something up.