[rgbrgb]

This looks great, congrats on the launch. Weirdly I've seen probably 5 of these pricing as a service layers this week (and a few 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?

[sfobiab]

https://tier.run/

https://getlago.com

[mikaeln]

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.

[rgbrgb]

That makes a lot of sense regarding the shift from top of funnel acquisition to conversion. The pricing models we’ve been working on definitely fall in this usage-based framework since we’re trying to bootstrap. Thanks for the perspective and good luck!