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Planlatch
Define plans once. Check any customer's feature access with one API call.
- Score
- 61
- confidence 49
- Evidence
- 6
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2011
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Developers set up pricing plans, features, and usage limits once in a system, then query it via API—configuration and monitoring work done at a desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Pro plan
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About this appAI proposal
Planlatch is a small service for SaaS founders and developers who change their pricing often. You define features and limits once, attach them to plans, and your app asks one question: can this customer use this feature, and how much is left?
When pricing changes, you edit the plan instead of hunting through spreadsheets and custom code. Every change is kept with a date, so you can see what a customer was entitled to last month. Metered features count usage for you and compare it to the limit.
It sits beside your payment provider rather than replacing it. Billing stays where it is; Planlatch holds the answer to who gets what. It is for teams who would rather not write a new entitlement system for every product.
- Tagline
- Change your pricing without losing track of who gets what.
- Voice
- PlainPreciseCalm
- Why this name
- A latch is a simple catch that opens or stays shut. Plan plus latch: each feature is open or closed per plan. Short, pronounceable, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Define features and limits once
Create on/off features, numeric limits and metered quotas in one catalog, then reuse them across plans and products.
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One-call access check
Ask whether a customer can use a feature and get the answer plus remaining allowance in a single API request.
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Plan history you can read
Every plan edit and customer move is logged with a date, so past entitlements can be looked up and explained.
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Usage metering built in
Send usage events for metered features. Counts reset by period and are checked against limits automatically.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Change your pricing without losing track of who gets what.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives one verified competitor price: Stripe lists one paid plan at RON 1.50 by usage, with prices on request for larger customers. It has no entitlement tier to compare. These tiers are a starting point to test.
Free
Free
- 1 product
- Up to 50 customers
- Access checks and plan history
Builder
$29 a month
- 3 products
- Up to 1,000 customers
- Usage metering
- Webhook sync and overrides
Scale
$99 a month
- Unlimited products
- Up to 10,000 customers
- Change impact previews
- Priority support
Would you pay Builder · $29 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. It runs behind the customer's product, and their end users never see it. Growth comes from developer content, open example code and direct outreach, not from product use.
- Do they become customers?
- End users of customers' apps never meet Planlatch, so there is no built-in loop. Test whether technical founders find it through search and community posts and convert from the free tier.
- First customers
- Solo founders and teams of two to five developers running one subscription SaaS with three or more plans, who have changed pricing in the last year.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and Indie Hackers: Post a write-up on tracking plan changes over time, with a working example and the free tier link.
- Direct founder outreach: Message founders whose public pricing pages show several tiers and recent changes, and offer to migrate their plan table.
- Developer docs and templates: Publish starter code for common stacks with the one-call check, aimed at people searching for entitlement checks.
- First milestone
- Ten founders running it in production and three paying for Builder within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimSaaS founders repeatedly struggle with pricing changes forcing manual re-tracking of customer plan eligibility and feature access
- Public claimExisting solutions in this space are either prohibitively expensive or have significant capability gaps
- AI inferenceA builder solved this problem by creating a custom system and deployed it in production in their own SaaS product
- Public claimThe core solution addresses three key workflows: feature/limit definition tied to pricing, runtime feature access lookup, and usage tracking for metered features
- Verified
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Low-latency access checksEdge cache for entitlement lookupsApps call the check on every request, so answers must be fast and still correct after a plan edit.
- This app · Usage event ingestionQueue with batched countersMetered features need reliable, idempotent counting without slowing the customer's app.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalThe access check sits in the customer's request path. Downtime or slow answers break their product, so it needs caching, a safe fallback and clear uptime reporting.
- CommercialMany founders already built their own system, and one source says it works in production. Switching must cost less than keeping it.
- PlatformPlan data depends on the payment provider's webhooks. Changes to their events or limits could break sync.
- DataMetered counts can drift through duplicate or late events. Wrong counts mean wrong access, so idempotency and reconciliation are needed.
- CommercialThe claim that existing tools are too expensive or lacking rests on public claims only. Interviews should check it before more is built.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.