Show HN: Drop-in billing and feature access management for SaaS

(mightydash.com)

8 points | by parthi 1453 days ago

1 comments

  • parthi 1453 days ago
    TL;DR If you're a SaaS company, mightydash.com lets your users pick a plan, pay you and get access to what they paid for. Takes 15 mins and saves you at least a week of engineering

    Hello all, we've built a ton of SaaS apps in the past year, and payments have always been a headache. Yes, Stripe provides all the infrastructure to handle the grungy stuff, but you still have to build a ton of on top of it to get to something a customer can use. Decided to scratch my own itch and built mightydash.com to solve this.

    This is all the stuff I've had to build myself that MightyDash enables out of the box: - Let users add, change or remove a credit card - Select a plan - Let a user downgrade/cancel a plan, but make sure the user still retains access to features they paid for till the next billing period - Let a user upgrade a plan and explain that they'll be prorated (so they don't complain to support) - In my app, restrict access to a feature based on the user's plan (eg - you can only send 100 emails on the free plan) - Add a limited promo (allow 500 people to use promo code DEAL for 1 month free) - Add a no credit-card trial

    It's early and works for React/Node atm, but can easily extend it to your stack if you reach out.

    I've looked at Chargebee, Recurly and more. They offer a lot of options, but not the exact set of things that someone needs to get a SaaS product off the ground instantly.

    Would love to understand if this has been a problem for you too and what else you'd want handled for you

    • codegeek 1453 days ago
      Are the actual subscriptions created in stripe ? In other words, is it Stripe dependent for subscriptions ?
      • pamonrails 1452 days ago
        This is a bit of shameless plug, but if you are looking to manage subscriptions outside of Stripe, and simply use Stripe for payment processing, take a look at Kill Bill, the open-source subscription billing & payments platform: https://killbill.io/

        - Stripe tutorial: https://docs.killbill.io/latest/stripe_plugin.html

      • parthi 1453 days ago
        Yes, it's all on top of Stripe. We're not trying to recreate the infrastructure that they've built