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> To solve this problem at scale, we adopted a radical sharing approach. We’ve started building an Open-Source Alternative to Stripe Billing (and Chargebee, and
by aerovistae 4y ago
> To solve this problem at scale, we adopted a radical sharing approach. We’ve started building an Open-Source Alternative to Stripe Billing (and Chargebee, and all the equivalents).
This is so great. I personally haven't had to deal with this problem, but I've worked at a number of organizations (and heard about many others!) where this sort of business logic had to be implemented. It's just reinventing the wheel. I shudder to think how many companies have implemented a system for managing recurring subscriptions.
We have things like Ruby-on-Rails, Django, Laravel, and many others to take the bite out of building web applications. They keep us from having to reinvent the wheel.
We need similar open source frameworks for common business use-cases - billing, subscriptions, order/purchase management, and so on.
Sometimes it's weird to remember we're in the stone age of technology - all of this is a few decades old at most, and even early predecessors don't go back more than 70 years. Human history goes back tens of thousands of years. There's so much yet to come.
- ptsneves 4y agoThis is where solutions like WooCommerce shine. WooCommerce is an amazing piece of software that is many times used for free, but generates thousands of dollars.
- intuxikated 4y ago> We need similar open source frameworks for common business use-cases - billing, subscriptions, order/purchase management, and so on. You mean like an ERP? There's 2 open source ones I can think of: - Odoo, which is the bigger one, mostly Open-source (CRM / sales / subscriptions / invoices / webshop / inventory / purchase) but some enterprise-only modules (Rental, Field Services), I work with this software daily as an Odoo Developer (Customizing Odoo for customers' needs). - Erp-Next, which is completely open source as far as I can tell, through my limited testing it seems to be less advanced than Odoo currently. EDIT: you can even check runbot.odoo.com for some test-environments which are automatically built, where you can test/experiment, login is always admin:admin
- aerovistae 4y agoI hadn't heard of that! Maybe that is what I meant.