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Re:Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Us... by mrkurt on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:17PM (#36435507)
Not really, but we might've just implicitly designed around it.

Continuously aggregating smaller windows and sending them off is roughly how we send usage to Stripe right now (which, let's be clear, is not working for us AT ALL). We've resigned ourselves to having to do the same thing if we want to use a billing SaaS, but I don't love it.

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Re:Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Us... by jmacd on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:41AM (#36444685)
We’ve built https://GitHub.com/tierrun/tier with a local sidecar that can talk directly to stripe to help simplify situations like this.

A pure SaaS model for billing doesn’t do much more for you at then end of the day other than to apply billing ratings and generate an invoice (which Stripe can and is doing for you already).

I’d love to learn more about what you’d like to do with Stripe and how you are handling entitlements, plan versioning, etc

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Re:Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Us... by hekike on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:37AM (#36616562)
In the meantime, we looked more into metering and metrics and shared some thoughts here: Usage Data: Auditable or Operational https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616364
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