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Adil Aijaz
Personal blog · adilaijaz.medium.combusinessstartups
Adil Aijaz's personal blog at adilaijaz.medium.com covers business and startups. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage Based Pricing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium author's writing on pricing digital products and SaaS. Comments share it in a list of pricing resources and cite it in a thread about PriceOps, a Stripe pricing tool. Comments give no judgment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage Based Pricing4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-24
What Hacker News says?
> Might be wrong, but brief review of this appears to show the “thesis” of PriceOps is yield-based metered feature pricing The "thesis" of PriceOps is less "you must have metered feature pricing", and more "you should design your infrastructure so that you can learn from and adjust pricing in the future". In other words, expect that your product, customers, and landscape will change, and understand that the pricing…
Comment linking /6-questions-to-ask-before-adopting-usage-based-pricing-77bf2a669309
on “Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe”Submitted Want a killer product? Become more opinionated as a story · 265 points
HN discussionSome resources I've collected about pricing: https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i... https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-... https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/ http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5mont... https://adil…
Comment linking /6-questions-to-ask-before-adopting-usage-based-pricing-77bf2a669309
on “Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?”Submitted Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage Based Pricing as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted SaaS metrics: why activation rate is so important as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Questions to Ask Before Adopting Usage-Based Pricing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pricing and Packaging and the developer buyer – 4 insights from SaaS IPOs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion