Merge

Hey Product Hunt👋! We’re so excited to announce our new discounted pricing for startups, tailored to fit your needs. We know that as a startup, you’re juggling a lot of priorities: building your product, acquiring customers, etc. One thing that shouldn’t be on your list is building and maintaining product integrations. Merge takes that burden off you and your team. Merge is one API to add hundreds of integrations to your product. Instead of building and maintaining each integration, your developers integrate once to Merge’s Unified API to add an entire category of integrations to your product in just weeks. Merge currently offers over 200 HRIS, accounting, ticketing, CRM, ATS, file storage, and marketing automation integrations. Merge handles the full integrations lifecycle — from an easy initial build taking just weeks, to providing integration observability tools ensuring customer delight, and fully owning the maintenance of integrations. Hundreds of startups like Causal, Assembly, and Telescope trust Merge to power their product integrations at scale, enabling them to accelerate their time-to-market, cut engineering expenses, and acquire more customers. Learn more about Merge and our discounted plans by talking to one of our integration experts. Or watch a product demo from our co-founder! Thanks and let us know what you think! Irene

I simply love the concept. Integrations are a pain in the a** for most SaaS businesses. They don't create any product differentiation and suck up a lot of resources in building and maintaining them. Testing a bunch of products, I think the biggest challenge in the space is to find the right balance between abstraction and flexibility. Some tools are very powerful, supporting most of the integration capabilities, but on the other side, they are too complex and don't really cut development costs enough. Other products excel in making everything simple but at the cost of very limited capabilities. Merge, in my opinion, is on the right path. Still... I find this launch very confusing. You're basically just launching an updated pricing for startups. But not disclosing it? The website shows no pricing, just a banner announcing Startups discounts, which redirects here were there's no info on these discounts. The only visible pricing on the website is $650 for 10 linked accounts... even assuming just 1 linked account per customer, that's 65$ per customer to support integrations. Given most self-serve SaaS are priced below $100/mo, that's way too expensive unless you're an enterprise focused startup. But regardless, why launch something you're not disclosing? :)

I just visited the Merge website and it was super comprehensive. Great job and congrats on your launch! Just do you also support external integrations? I didn't see anywhere about it.