Okay yall. So if have built a revolutionary trading tool that is absolutely phenomenal. It took me about two weeks to build. I started in lovable and realized that replit was slightly “smarter”. I have been told three times im out of credits and have spent 900.00. Kicker is….ON WHAT? I have no clue what the billing is and its milking me dry. I clearly need the tool but its costing me an arm and a leg. I assume I am doing something wrong. Help!!! How do I find what I am being charged in like regular language.
Your invoices will show you the breakdown. Look at them. Report back.
I looked but the math isn’t adding up. States ive used 800 in credits but only 400 is on the invoice.
Replit invoicing is strange and cumulative.
Don’t give your data away!
Build it yourself for under $5 bucks
You should be informing people that if they use your service you snag their emails and then might be able to sift through all the users payment information and sift through the db with all the used information stored Eric.
My way lets users make the thing for themselves for under $5 bucks and you never get their data and personal information like their email and such.
Just saying people!
It costs less than $5 bucks to protect your data and build it yourself
Ps this is why Replit needs to fix this problem.
It’s not just annoying at this point.
It truly is a privacy issue.
No offense no one should have to rely on a third party to store and manage their billing information like this.
Again, truly a a cool product. I endorse the hustle. Giving your email, and then uploading all your invoices to a person other than yourself or Replit is not a safe practice.
This is why Replit needs to address the billing on the stripe side RIGHT AWAY rather than letting users get siphoned like this.
It’s a real pet peeve of mine.
Be smart people. Think about what and how these documents get stored.
You and Replit are the only people who should have that information. Point blank.
Don’t agree? Make the app I suggested upload all your invoices and watch the repo. I bet you’ll find a way to sift through users data. Then you can just stay quiet and watch and know.
It’s not a safe method!
No matter how cool or awesome the product may be. Only self hosting and owning or it coming right from Replit.
If you don’t believe me then make it for yourself and upload mock data and sift through it all. I bet you’ll be able to see how these companies play foul ball.
The only thing on the invoices is cryptic project IDs that mean nothing without actual account access, and your name and email address, which you give up when you sign up for any service, anywhere. There is literally no sensitive data on the invoices.
Also, everything is disclosed in the Privacy Policy, as per usual with any SaaS.
Not sure what you’re going on about.
That’s not entirely accurate, Eric.
Here’s what I’m trying to say:
“A fundamental epistemological limitation exists in all vendor security assurances: the party relying on the assurance is structurally prevented from independently verifying it.”
“The practice of delegating payment data custody to third-party vendors is widespread, and we argue that organizations relying on vendor assurances systematically underestimate the associated risks.”
We agree to these terms with Replit. However, we only agree to your privacy policy, data retention policies, and discretion when we use your service. I’m using “you” here in a non-attacking way, simply stating the facts.
“The relying organization has no visibility into the vendor’s employee vetting practices, no ability to monitor privileged access management controls, and no recourse for insider incidents except through litigation after the fact — litigation whose prospects are constrained by the same liability caps and arbitration clauses discussed in Section 6.”
Big tech companies with a market cap of 9-13 billion can definitely provide adequate litigation and remedies for any breach or exploit, if there is one. Users may never know about it using your service (no possible way to enforce until after the fact), and they shouldn’t be asked to disclose billing invoices to another third party.
There are three vendors involved with your Replit billing, when it should only be one. Since they partner with Stripe at most, it should only ever be two.
I’ll never change my stance on this.
The engineering and product staff should understand what I’m saying and why…
Subscriptions for literally any other service you offer is whatever, and I totally encourage users to use them. They are beyond the scope of this conversation.
This is signing up for a subscription (replit), and then another subscription for the subscription billing (you).
In no world should that be, “as per usual with any SaaS”.
Replit should work with their partnering agency to provide adequate itemized invoicing.
No one should have to use your service, or my build prompt.