Every year at MicroConf I get surprised-not-surprised by the number of people I meet who are running "Does one thing reasonably well, ranks well for it, pulls down a full-time dev salary" out of a fun side project which obviates a frequent 1~5 engineer-day sprint horizontally.
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"Who is the prototypical client here?" A consulting shop delivering a $X00k engagement for an internal system, a SaaS company doing something custom for a large client or internally facing or deeply non-core to their business, etc.
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(I feel like many of these businesses are good answers to the "how would you monetize OSS to make it sustainable?" fashion, since they often wrap a core OSS offering in the assorted infrastructure which makes it easily consumable.)
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"But don't the customers get subscription fatigue?" I think subscription fatigue is far more reported by people who are embarrassed to charge money for software than it is experienced by for-profit businesses, who don't seem to have gotten pay-biweekly-for-services fatigue.
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Data point: my last business spent ~$40k annually on software, a substantial portion of that in $25 and $50 chunks monthly. $40k is not a lot of money to a business that actually has payroll. It. Is. Not.
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I think an important point missing in this is there is often a choice. Hire an extra engineer (or do less work) or take out some saas subscriptions. The direct cost of an engineer is already high. The secondary cost (extra communication, larger team) enormous.
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Patrick, this is a great thread, please elaborate more on this subject.
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