Flowglad
Ranked 7 of 11 payment processors by recommenders
Developers recommend it as a payments layer that handles Stripe billing and webhooks, so customer billing data stays out of their own database.
Developers recommend it as a payments layer that handles Stripe billing and webhooks, so customer billing data stays out of their own database.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clear developer experience and SDK
“This is a needed abstraction! Love the idea of bringing a reactive DX to payments.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” “It makes it very clear, and easy to understand.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” “make the SDK super usable”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” Cheaper than Stripe Billing alone
“we certainly aren't more expensive once you include the cost of Stripe Billing”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” “that you get your dream devex without needing to sign up for 2 products”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” Handles webhooks so you don't
“We eat all the webhook pain so you don’t have to.”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor” “Flowgrad seems to handle this on their side.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor”
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See all 11 payment processors, rankedWhat people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“We eat all the webhook pain so you don’t have to.”
“our hooks get entitlement data directly to your frontend”
“we certainly aren't more expensive once you include the cost of Stripe Billing”
“excited to build on top of flowglad”
“This is a needed abstraction! Love the idea of bringing a reactive DX to payments.”
“This is the really messy part that hasn't been well addressed yet by incumbents.”
“This looks like a REALLY cool tool for tech-focused startups.”
“Flowgrad seems to handle this on their side.”
“make the SDK super usable”
“that you get your dream devex without needing to sign up for 2 products”
“If you care about responsiveness, I'm not sure that's a good idea.”
“What sold me on flowglad was the single source of truth and not having to hold customer stripe info in my DB.”
“It makes it very clear, and easy to understand.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.