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maccman / saasy

saasy

Rails SaaS and SSO solution

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Rails SaaS and SSO solution

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-03-11 17:20:16 UTC to 2010-10-22 16:32:59 UTC.

01232009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMar 20092009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsOct 2010

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Mar 20092009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20092009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20092009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20092009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20092009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20092009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20092009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20092009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20092009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20092009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20102010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20102010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20102010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20102010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20102010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20102010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20102010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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ericb·Oct 22, 2010
For anyone else interested, I found this while googling for ActiveMerchant sample apps and will probably pick it up. Looks apropos. Thanks for the feedback! http://peepcode.com/products/activemerchant-pdf edit: I also found this plugin: http://github.com/maccman/saasy sample apps: http://github.com/linoj/saasramp If anyone has looked at these or others, I'd love to hear thoughts on them before I dig in.
In Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider?
moe·Oct 14, 2010Submission

Ask HN: Anyone self-host their payment gateway?

The recent chargify debacle demonstrated once again how thorny a subject the whole area of billing and invoicing still is for us entrepreneurs. In both of the chargify threads an alternative solution was mentioned: Why not host your own gateway, on your own server? These products were mentioned in the comments: http://www.opengateway.net http://github.com/maccman/saasy http://railskits.com/saas/ (I'm not affiliated with any of them) At the core they all essentially provide a recurring billing solution that we can install and run on our own server. Opengateway even claims to handle CCs in such a way that no PCI compliance is required. This was the first time that I heard about shrinkwrapped, self-hosted solutions for that specific task. So I'm wondering: Is anyone here using such a product? What are your experiences, can you recommend one?
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Or is it generally a bad idea?
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maccman·Mar 11, 2009
Just to plug my own Rails SaaS framework: http://github.com/maccman/saasy == Features * No local credit card storage * Automated billing script that should be run nightly * Configurable subscription plans (price/duration) * SSL protection for account creation (and when updating CC info) * Account can have multiple users, interface for adding more * Trial ending mailer * Invoice mailer * Automated notification and retry of failed renewals * Plan upgrade/downgrades * PDF invoices * OpenID support * Shared secret SSO * Credit card verification * REST API for users and subscriptions
In What Web Frameworks Are Missing - Credit Card Payment Out of the Box

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