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I often wondered if there is an opportunity to build a fully open source stack for handling all of these issues. It isn’t a competitive advantage for anyone and
by enos_feedler 6y ago
I often wondered if there is an opportunity to build a fully open source stack for handling all of these issues. It isn’t a competitive advantage for anyone and its a pain to get right. It also seems like everyone wants the same thing. I could imagine it being sponsored by mid tier companies that heavily rely on subscriptions and do well (say Tinder for example). Companies like this could donate time or an engineer or two. It would save everyone having to reinvent their subscription and billing infrastructure.
- tigroferoce 6y agoWe (Saasform - https://saasform.dev/ https://saasform.dev/) are building exactly something like that. Since payments are heavily tied with authentication (and since authentication and payments rarely are part of the core business) our idea is to delegate these two key (yet non-core) features to an external service. We are currently building our MVP and we plan to release the first part as OSS by the end of the month. Eventually the whole core will be open source and there will a version as a service (a-la GitLab). The first release will be focused on startups to help them to launch faster, in the next versions we will add more growth/enterprise features. Feel free to drop a mail to dave <at> saasform <dot> dev if you have questions, want to contribute or if you want to be among the first users.
- enos_feedler 6y agoThanks! I've signed up for the mailing list. Look forward to seeing the release.