A simple pricing and resource limit library
Details
- External ID
- 46961521
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- A simple pricing and resource limit library
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 10, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey Hacker News! No one likes to code pricing; it sucks. It shouldn't take up my time, yet it always does - too much of it. And pricing always needs to change, eating up valuable dev hours.I created a simple pricing engine so that I could write all of my pricing rules & resource limits in a single YAML doc, then enforce them everywhere with a single policy check.It's simple, intuitive, versionable, auditable, and easy to reason about or change quickly without bogging my development down.My CTO friends liked the idea and wanted to use it, so I created this open-source library for everyone to try for themselves.We also have a hosted version that's turnkey for adding Stripe billing & live customer data, so that you can evolve pricing independently from your codebase.Check it out and let me know what you think! :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- revenue optimization and billing analytics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- pricing and resource limit library
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a utility library that parses YAML configuration files and evaluates feature flag or rate/quota entitlement rules in application code.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Stripe metered pricing
Concerns raised: Handling custom pricing for enterprise contracts, Managing plan downgrades when usage exceeds new plan limits mid-billing cycle, Complexity of billing setup and tracking
Feature requests: Reconciliation mechanism for mid-cycle plan transitions, Graceful handling of overage scenarios beyond hard limits
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Launched 99 days after the earliest competitor.
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