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Definitely! We've found that developers want to apply subscriptions against either Users or Organizations, so first we're planning to build out Organization management first (create an org, invite members, setup SAML auth, etc).

Subscription management will follow sometime after, and will probably look like a Stripe integration that automatically creates Stripe Customer objects for your Users and Organizations. Is this along the lines you're thinking?

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Both of these are definitely features I would really dig, particularly if I'm able to subscribe to whichever one I need.

If I'm building a photo-hosting app, it would be a bummer to pay for/build out a big "Organization Subscriptions" feature; if I'm building an enterprise-oriented chat application, I wouldn't want to spend many hours or dollars on individual "User Subscriptions".

But that said, I recognize splitting out those two features is more of a cherry on top; the main value here is just having them available to me in the first place. Either way, definitely keeping my eye on Clerk! Good luck folks!

In my case I don’t care about organizations. I am an individual dev who would love to use something like this to easily build apps that I could monetize. I am thinking of a web equivalent of the Apple iOS app store. Some place where you write an app and let the app store take care of billing and payments. I have published several iOS apps and zero web apps mostly because there is no frictionless way of monetizing web apps. Feel free to send me email if you want to talk more about the use cases.

Hi Asim! Sounds super interesting, I'd love to learn more about them! I've messaged you on Linkedin.

- Tibor

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