A simple pricing and resource limit library
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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! :)
HN · launched Feb 10, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: billing and payment platforms · 146 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Competitors
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Attention rank: #159 of 176 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 99 days after the earliest competitor.
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