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Dev tools · October 19, 2022

APIs and SDKs to help developers build pricing plans faster

Hello HN Community, As an ex-founder of a developers-for-hire agency, I was fortunate to build for many different software organizations around the world, and partner with the most talented product teams. One of the things I learned by coding was how painful it is to build & maintain pricing in SaaS. The pricing structure and logic always end up being coupled with the core application code and the billing platform. The product catalog is typically managed in spreadsheets, by the product & monetization teams, while all the possible package types, including the legacy ones, are typically…

APIs and SDKs to help developers build pricing plans faster launched on October 19, 2022 with 44 votes, #1,078 of 3,153 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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Stigg provides APIs and SDKs that help developers build and manage pricing plans without coupling pricing logic to core application code. The product is designed for engineering teams at SaaS companies who need to decouple pricing structures from their main codebase and billing platforms. It addresses the common problem of pricing logic becoming tangled with application code and scattered across repositories.

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Hello HN Community, As an ex-founder of a developers-for-hire agency, I was fortunate to build for many different software organizations around the world, and partner with the most talented product teams. One of the things I learned by coding was how painful it is to build & maintain pricing in SaaS. The pricing…

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