Archive - The Bill, Please

How Cursor's pricing change threatened its UX

Cursor messed up.

Jul 7 •

How Dries Vints Keeps Laravel’s Billing Invisible and Bullet-Proof

Why billing engineers are underrated

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

Jun 25 •

AI in the Middle East: what will the business models be?

AI is no longer a nice-to-have.

Jun 13 •

May 2025

How Cursor nails pricing (and what they could improve)

Cursor is probably the most impressive startup of the past few years:

May 21 •

Billing is edge case hell

No, it's not just events + PDF generation

May 2 •

April 2025

Outcome-based pricing is NOT the future

Pricing will change, but not like that

Apr 7 •

Why Kagi launched “no use, no pay”

Paying for a SaaS subscription you don’t use sucks.

Apr 1 •

March 2025

AI isn't the SaaS business—it's resale

Why big AI companies often invoice themselves

Mar 17 •

Why seat-based pricing will slowly die (for most categories)

How AI is changing software monetization and pricing

Mar 5 •

February 2025

Stop self-serve, start selling

Why (and when) startups shouldn't do self-serve

Feb 11 •

January 2025

The Stack is Back

3 things we learned in the last 2 years

Jan 30 •

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