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Field notes from building open-source revenue intelligence at Beton.

Two recurring threads: pricing teardowns of open-source tools (n8n, Plane, Langfuse, Firecrawl, Twenty, and more — how their pricing actually works and what the usage-based vs per-seat bet implies) and product-led growth dispatches — how we instrument signals from PostHog, route them to CRMs, and learn from what converts.

No growth-hack listicles. Most posts are written by Vlad as we ship, from inside the product. New posts most weeks.

Apr 20, 2026

Langfuse Pricing Teardown

Langfuse open sourced almost everything under MIT. The cloud pricing is usage-based with a $170 cliff between Core and Pro — here's what you're actually paying for.

Apr 16, 2026

We Open-Sourced Our Agent Testing Tool

Dryfit generates synthetic analytics databases with hidden ground truth so you can benchmark AI agents on product-signal discovery. MIT licensed.

Apr 14, 2026

Beton April 2026 Update

Slack integration, MCP server with OAuth, security audit, blog migration, and open-sourcing the agent.

Apr 6, 2026

Twenty CRM Pricing Teardown

Twenty CRM at $9/user/month exposes how much of Salesforce and HubSpot pricing is brand tax.

Mar 25, 2026

n8n Pricing Teardown

n8n charges per workflow execution, not per step. Here's why that matters for complex automations with AI chains and conditional branching.

Feb 28, 2026

Plane Pricing Teardown

Plane is an open-source Jira/Linear alternative you can self-host. Integrations are positioned as a deliberate growth lever — here's how the pricing works.

Feb 25, 2026

Beton Product Newsletter

Major release: simplified onboarding, Firecrawl integration, MCP support for AI agents, Intercom support, and a complete visual overhaul with neo-brutalist design.

Feb 18, 2026

Firecrawl Pricing Teardown

Firecrawl has one of the smartest GTM setups in open source. The trick isn't in the pricing page — it's in the licensing.

Feb 11, 2026

Shipped the Agent and New Website

Launched the full agent with demo, updated navigation in the app, and released our new website built on Astro.

Feb 4, 2026

Billing Live, Agent Wiring & First Real Signups

7 MVP signups, Stripe billing live, PostHog and Attio integrations operational, and agent wiring in progress with session-level authorization.

Jan 22, 2026

We Rebuilt Beton: Automated Signal Discovery

Complete product pivot toward automated signal discovery for PLG sales teams. The system analyzes data warehouses, runs statistical tests, and creates CRM deals when signals fire.

Nov 25, 2025

November 2025 Update

Experiment with AI-assisted weekly updates. SEO work with 100+ integration pages, GitHub scraper development, and strategy thinking.

Nov 6, 2025

New Apollo Integration & Faster Enrichment

Full-time founder commitment, $5.2K booked revenue, 40 inbound signups, webhook implementation, advisory board formation, and enterprise fintech deal pipeline.

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