Hacker News with Generative AI: Billing

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!

B2B, SaaS, Billing, Business

31 points by arnon 20 days ago | 27 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, Billing, Startups, Software Development, Developer Tools

31 points by templaedhel 35 days ago | 3 comments

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".

AWS, Cloud Computing, Billing, Fraud, CloudWatch

7 points by uLogMicheal 84 days ago | 8 comments

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?

Cloud Computing, Billing, Personal Stories, Mistakes

11 points by mooreds 84 days ago | 19 comments

Show HN: I built a tool that turns every issue in the project to a tiny-invoice (sectar.co)

Software, Project Management, Billing, Tools

10 points by Jay_D 104 days ago | 3 comments

Metronome delivers advanced usage-based billing with Responsive (responsive.dev)

Billing, Software, Cloud Computing, Pricing

15 points by templaedhel 111 days ago | 0 comments

Changes to Stripe Billing (stripe.com)