Hacker News with Generative AI: Billing

How we made billing backendless (useautumn.com)
Typically, billing is a backend job and requires webhooks, state syncing, then passing the data to the frontend. We wanted to offer a more "out-of-the-box" experience when handling things like payment links, paywalls and up/downgrade flows, so we've spent a bunch of time thinking about how we can perform sensitive payment operations without needing to perform the "round trip" to the backend -- we think this is a simpler and better developer experience.
AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase (amazon.com)
Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations.
Open source payments and billing infrastructure (github.com/flowglad)
Flowglad wants to change that.
Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day (twitter.com)
B2C billing is harder than B2B billing (arnon.dk)
We all love a B2B SaaS ❤️. A few months ago I wrote about 14 reasons why building your own billing system (mostly for B2B SaaS) is hard. Here are 6 more so that we can round it up to a nice 20!
Fly.io solves usage-based billing challenges with Metronome (metronome.com)
Fly.io is a developer-focused public cloud that makes it easy to deploy and grow your business. As this lean startup has grown, they’ve faced a now-common challenge: usage-based billing. Jon Phenow, Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io, spoke with Chang Li, Product Marketing Manager at Metronome, about the obstacles his team overcame in making usage-based invoices clear and legible for customers, aligning pricing to value, making pricing updates easier, and more.
Ask HN: AWS CloudWatch Fraud? (ycombinator.com)
Over a year ago I migrated one of my companies away from AWS and deleted all EC2 and Kubernetes instances. I recently noticed that regardless of these cancellations, AWS has consistently billed for "CloudWatch".
My Cloud Billing Screw-Up (beehiiv.com)
You know that one time that you screwed up and did something that ended up skyrocketing your cloud bill?
Show HN: I built a tool that turns every issue in the project to a tiny-invoice (sectar.co)
Metronome delivers advanced usage-based billing with Responsive (responsive.dev)
Changes to Stripe Billing (stripe.com)
Cloudflare billing incident since 35 days including wrong invoice (cloudflarestatus.com)
Ask HN: Google migrated Google Workspace billing to Squarespace, now what? (ycombinator.com)
CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 (arstechnica.com)
Ask HN: Cloudflare Billing Dispute (ycombinator.com)