u/CandidChameleon

Hey, all! Working on something and want to sanity check it before I build more.

If you run usage-based billing, how do you currently get live usage totals or upcoming invoice amounts into your own MySQL/SQLServer for gating or dashboards? Cron job polling the Stripe API, custom webhook consumer, or you just call the API live when you need it? Pretty sure there's a pre-built postgres connector, but haven't seen this for other DBs.

I'm looking at building a lightweight, real-time sync tool that keeps this state mirrored locally so you're not hitting Stripe's API on every request. Curious if this is a real pain point or if most people just don't bother.

Not selling anything, genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth building. Happy to share more if useful.

Hey, all! Working on something and want to sanity check it before I build more.

If you run usage-based billing, how do you currently get live usage totals or upcoming invoice amounts into your own MySQL/SQLServer for gating or dashboards? Cron job polling the Stripe API, custom webhook consumer, or you just call the API live when you need it?

I'm looking at building a lightweight, real-time sync tool that keeps this state mirrored locally so you're not hitting Stripe's API on every request. Curious if this is a real pain point or if most people just don't bother.

Not selling anything, genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth building. Happy to share more if useful.