The Bill, Please
Anh Tho Chuong, FinnThe Bill, Please tells the stories and learnings from building Lago, a YC-backed open-source billing & metering product.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 41 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Anthropic drama: Claude Took the Unfair Bullet for Ending Finger-Based Pricing
Open AI Codex is winning the Anthropic Claude backlash for now, but I do not think the most interesting story is “Anthropic made a pricing mistake.”
They probably kind of did. The rollout is confusing, the optics are bad, and developers ar...
Maximize optionality
Another day at Fort Point in San Francisco: Surfers paddling out in the fog
The AI market is foggy
A single model release can eat your roadmap or pull it forward by years. Design, product, engineering don’t look the same as they...
Open-Sourcing my writing Claude Skill
Writing should have a soul. And its own Claude Skill.
I showed up to swyx and Sarah‘s Write and Learn workshop because I admire their work and I wanted to be around writers. There aren’t many of us in devtools.
They’d invited me to spe...
Embedded software is the biggest growth opportunity for open source
When you link your bank account to Venmo, you’re not using Venmo’s technology, you’re using Plaid. An Uber sends you a ride notification, that originates with Twilio. Maps in Strava, Doordash or Instacart? Powered by Mapbox.
These are some...
Vibe-coding platforms monetize. Their users can't.
Lovable crossed $200M ARR in under a year. Replit charges up to $200/month per seat. Base44 got acquired by Wix for $80M.
These platforms know how to monetize. Their users don’t.
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