by neil on August 31, 2009
Building a billing engine is a hassle. It requires many hours of coding and testing and if things go wrong – you’re in trouble. We like recurring billing and we like the SaaS model. We knew most of our products would be built on this infrastructure so we decided to create a stand-alone billing engine. We’ve now reworked this and are offering it to anyone who wants to build a service with subscription billing.
All you need to do is drop in your gateway information, integrate your product with our API and you’re done. We handle the billing, upgrades, downgrades, failed credit cards, invoices etc..
Don’t worry we don’t touch your money at all! Our gateway integration allows the money to go straight into your account. Frulo is simply the logic that handles this process.
We’re not trying to be the be the most dynamic billing system. We just want to do subscription billing and do it well.
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by neil on August 5, 2009
What does it do?
It ’s a virtual desktop which enables you to create shortcuts to websites and online applications.
Why did we build it?
Majority of the software we use at Platform45 follows the software as a service model. This means that instead of downloading and installing software on our computers, the software is hosted by the provider and we access it through a standard web browser. Just as you would create shortcuts to your applications on your desktop, we’ve created a virtual desktop to store shortcuts to your SaaS applications.
How do I use it?
- Choose an application from the list. (if you use one that isn’t here please let us know and we’ll add it)
- Enter a name and your URL to the service
- The shortcut will appear on your desktop. Click “launch” to access your service.
- Finally save your LaunchDeck and add more applications.
Start building your LaunchDeck here.
This application was conceptualized, designed and developed as part of our one-day app challenge.
Inspired by Rails Rumble we’ve decided to run our own one-day app challenge.
The idea of a one-day app is to conceptualize, develop, design and market a web based application in 24 working hours. This challenge is aimed at keeping us, the Platform45 team on our toes and it ensure that we stick to the fundamentals of developing and designing applications.
Rules of the game:
1. The whole process must be completed in 24 working hours, 3 working days.
2. No design or development is allowed once the time is up.
If you want to play, let us know: We are looking for idea’s, tips and hints for our next application. Leave a comment or email us.
If you would like to know when the countdown for the next challenge begins, take a look at the one-day app section on our website. Here you’ll find all one-day apps and apps in progress.
There’s been a lot of talk about real time web at Platform45 lately. All these discussions spurred on the creation of our first one-day app.
The idea behind our one-day apps are too conceptualize, design and develop an application in one working day.
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