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Orb
Company blog · withorb.com/blogbusinessprogramming
Orb is the company blog at withorb.com, writing about business and programming. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Orb is a usage-based billing company. One commenter notes Adyen bought it for $335M to position itself as the payments choice for AI companies. The comment links only the homepage and does not discuss writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Design, execute, and operate revenue with usage-based billing. Orb helps modern software companies adapt pricing as products, usage, and costs evolve.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Orb | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA (in-person, on-site) | Full Time Orb is building billing infrastructure for modern companies. As companies grow and evolve, the ability to change their pricing and packaging is often limited by the sheer complexity of the engineering effort involved to make those changes. I experienced these challenges first hand and my desire to solve this problem is what led me to start…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted Why billing systems are so hard to evaluate as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAdyen just bought Orb [0], a usage-based billing company, for $335M, specifically so they could position themselves as the payments choice for AI companies. [0] https://www.withorb.com/
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on “Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter”Submitted Why finance teams hate Stripe as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAt Orb ( https://www.withorb.com/ ) we’ve worked with a bunch of infra customers that are in a similar situation to what you’re describing. Generally, usage tracking and usage reporting is not the hard part. We think that giving you a full SQL layer on top of raw events is very powerful, so we provide direct SQL access to your events. Naturally, we use a real-time time series database under the hood to power that. W…
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on “Launch HN: OpenMeter (YC W23) – Real-Time, Open Source Usage Metering”Submitted OpenAI's credits model in <100 lines of code as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenges of building prepaid credits like Snowflake as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What accounting goes into Snowflake's earnings report? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Metered Billing as a story · 1 points
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