Microverse is a global, distributed school for software developers that doesn't charge students anything until they get hired.
The company is backed by Y Combinator and other top tier investors from Silicon Valley, and the team works remotely from more than 7 countries.
We have full-time students in 70+ countries, thousands of applicants per month from ~200 countries, and graduates from Nigeria to Mexico that have increased their salaries by 2-10x after completing the program.
We currently are hiring for several roles: Head of Growth & Marketing || Student Success Associate || Product Manager.
We offer: Opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and shape our direction and organization || The opportunity to join the whole team at company retreats somewhere around the world once every nine months or so || Work alongside a fully distributed team that lives all around the world and is from 7 different countries.
I was going to provide feedback on your pricing, but it looks like you haven't published it to your site yet. If you're in the process of creating your launch price, I'd recommend checking out this free email series. It'll walk you through pricing you product step-by-step. https://gtchdr.com/2QPoGL6
In general, it ooks cool, though maybe a bit over my head. I'm not in the target market, per se, but I signed up to play around.
To add to the list of another non-open source billing solution: Cheddar, https://getcheddar.com. I mentioned it earlier, but another disclaimer: I work there.
I think it's crazy that everyone writes and maintains their own billing solutions too.
I think people build their own billing solution because for a long time, there wasn't one well-known tool out there that could handle all of the complexities of a software company's billing (dunning, customer emails, assembling invoices, usage tracking and metering, etc.).
And when a well-known company like Stripe comes along and offers billing, people are hesitant and have a little sticker shock because at scale, they charge a lot of money for billing. Stripe Billing costs 0.4% of revenue (after $1m in lifetime revenue) and then 0.7% at scale on top of their payment processor which already costs 2.9% + 30% per transaction[1]. And while that rate is pretty standard, if you have high and growing revenue, you can often negotiate a lower payment processor rate with other payment processors, but Stripe locks you in to using them.
So, instead, developers choose to build billing systems themselves using tools out there (Stripe for payments, X for dunning, Y for customer communicating, etc.). However, that also creates a lot of complexities because if you need to change anything down the line or update how exactly you charge for your product, you'll probably have to go back to the codebase, meaning developers will have to dive into code they haven't touched in a while and rework things.
That's why we created Cheddar (https://getcheddar.com), a usage-based billing platform and API that lets software engineers finally decouple billing from the codebase, track usage data (that you're not even billing for), and flexibly apply and iterate pricing plans to that usage data.
Have you heard of Cheddar? It's a usage-based billing API that does almost everything you're talking about, minus the 2FA. That might have to be an external service, but if you're interested, I can double check.
Thanks! We're actively doing research on the challenges of pricing for SaaS businesses. Its a way for us to understand how engaged businesses are with wanting to improve their packaging & pricing.
Rob and Mike of Startups For The Rest of Us recently published an awesome podcast on the topic of struggles and challenges of building a billing system.
In short, you'd face problems like developer strain, to failed card charges, integrating metered billing...the list goes on.
If you haven't heard of it, check out Cheddar (https://gtchdr.com/2EHdJrY). Their billing API and platform might be able to save you a lot of time when you build your billing system. Full disclosure: I work there.
Microverse is a global, distributed school for software developers that doesn't charge students anything until they get hired.
The company is backed by Y Combinator and other top tier investors from Silicon Valley, and the team works remotely from more than 7 countries.
We have full-time students in 70+ countries, thousands of applicants per month from ~200 countries, and graduates from Nigeria to Mexico that have increased their salaries by 2-10x after completing the program.
We currently are hiring for several roles: Head of Growth & Marketing || Student Success Associate || Product Manager.
We offer: Opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and shape our direction and organization || The opportunity to join the whole team at company retreats somewhere around the world once every nine months or so || Work alongside a fully distributed team that lives all around the world and is from 7 different countries.
Apply here: https://angel.co/company/microverse/jobs/