Developing a tech startup is hard, and 90% of the costs are usually in labor (real or opportunity cost if you are working "for free").
Trying to save a few bucks each month when you are paying engineers $10K+ per month just doesn't make sense. Many engineers are also not good at thinking in "analog" (vs digital) and obsess on things that just impact the wrong thing.
Those comments about people using a couple $100s for monthly SaaS service a few months ago baffled me. The real question is: do those multiply/improve the output of your most scarce resource?
Saving a couple $1000s per year is good all else being equal, but in the end it's creating $100,000s more that matters in business.
Yeah the key to having the penny pinching DIY approach pay off is to have your time already close to zero. Then you can take as long as you want to perfect your CI/CD pipeline and loading screens, they will all pay for themselves in the end.
Developing a tech startup is hard, and 90% of the costs are usually in labor (real or opportunity cost if you are working "for free").
Trying to save a few bucks each month when you are paying engineers $10K+ per month just doesn't make sense. Many engineers are also not good at thinking in "analog" (vs digital) and obsess on things that just impact the wrong thing.
Those comments about people using a couple $100s for monthly SaaS service a few months ago baffled me. The real question is: do those multiply/improve the output of your most scarce resource?
Saving a couple $1000s per year is good all else being equal, but in the end it's creating $100,000s more that matters in business.
Focus on the right order of magnitude.