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Should You Use an Identity Theft Protection Service? 3 Things to Consider

CNET Feed - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 7:00am
Knowledge is your greatest weapon against fraud, and these services could help to provide the tools you need.
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This Smart Plug I Tested Excels at What Matters Most -- Saving Me Energy and Money

CNET Feed - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 7:00am
With electricity usage as the focus of Emporia's plug, you can see exactly how your devices are performing.
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Show HN: US Home sale trends by zipcode

Hacker News - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 6:57am

We built Pillr to help homebuyers make data-driven decisions through interactive visualisations of recent sales trends organised by zipcode. After launching our paid tier in February, we've attracted our first subscribers, validating our core offering. Now we're looking to improve our conversions and we’d love to connect with someone who can guide us on the necessary tweaks. We'd appreciate HN's feedback on our product, UI/UX, and monetisation strategy.

Check us out at https://pillr.io/accessCode/hn4free and reach out directly: info@pillr.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555437

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Show HN: I made a platform to load and performance test API's

Hacker News - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 6:52am

I built BuzzBench because I was frustrated with how complex performance testing tools have become. And I was ending up writing my own scripts to test endpoints and manually check out resource usage at the time of testing.

Checkout demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAnbZMoQvmQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555409

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Show HN: We built an API to manage usage based entitlement logic

Hacker News - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 6:50am

We built gater, an API-first user entitlement management system for SaaS teams.

Most SaaS products start by tying feature access/entitlement directly to billing metadata (like Stripe plan IDs or Paddle SKUs). It works early on, but quickly becomes a problem when you need to:

- Launch or tweak pricing experiments - Handle usage-based logic (anyone building AI tools might resonate), add-ons, and trials - Fix entitlement issues caused by billing sync problems

gater solves for these by decoupling user entitlement logic from billing.

You define plans (we call these macros), features, usage limits, and custom rules via our dashboard or API.

Your app calls gater to determine what a user should be able to access, regardless of what billing provider or pricing model you use.

The benefits:

- Reduces engineering time spent maintaining pricing logic - Enables faster experimentation with pricing and packaging - Makes support more self-sufficient when billing and entitlements go wrong - Payment stack agnostic – works with Stripe, Paddle, Paypal, or a homegrown stack - Supports more than feature flags – usage caps, bundled features, add-ons, etc.

We originally built gater for our own projects to avoid rewriting complex feature access logic every time pricing model changes.

We've dogfooded this incessantly and hope this is also useful for other teas!

If you’ve had to battle entitlement logic implementation for your SaaS, we’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555402

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