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 …
-
-
I recently looked at a slack integration for work price at $3/user/month At 40 users that is ~ $1500 a year. We *could* build our own bot but it would cost more than that just in dev time
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
See also Wardley maps for identifying components of a business that are a commodity so should likely be bought, not custom made
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
We're a small start-up and our bills run at about 5k a month for these kinds of transactions. Problem is, most of these dev micro-saas platforms only accept credit cards and I live in fear of expiry dates as it means a few full days of updating details.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
You know this, but $25 a month is less than I (theoretically) lost plugging in my laptop adapter every morning before I got a second power cord to leave plugged in under my desk.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Heck, add a zero to that, turn it into monthly savings, and it can easily barely merit a side note from a CTO in a “what we did this month” call
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I think three things that prevent this from being an easy global solution to the paying OSS devs are: * Devs who don't want to cut off personal/non-business users.
-
* Core dependencies (e.g. >5 hops from application code with enormous fanout). Most companies can't afford to pay $40/month for each of the 100k transitive dependencies used to build their apps.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
Less than half of a head.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Lots of businesses pay $40k annually just for one piece of software, and those aren't necessarily particularly large businesses.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.