There are a *lot* of software shops in the world that would far rather have one more technical dependency than they'd like to pay for one of their 20 engineers to become the company's SPOF expert on the joys of e.g. HTTP file uploads, CSV parsing bugs, PDF generation, etc.https://twitter.com/yongfook/status/1169473948129488897 …
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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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How do they discover the problem and manage to sell things like this? For single large-client businesses I'd guess connections and experience from consulting/working with the client? Other ways?
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