Heard this one before.
"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?"
Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.
"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?"
Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.
No, that's not the argument being made though.
The argument is 'why is a team of 3 paying 3x$10 to 'schedule meetings'. There's only 3 people, i.e. a reasonable questioning of the value being made.
Honestly, $10 is not that much, but why on earth would it be needed is a fair question.
If you cost $100/hour, it only takes 6 minutes of saved time per month to pay back for it. Plus lost opportunity if a potential customer doesn't schedule the call with you. Reducing the friction to talk to customers is pretty big in my books.
The question is if the value you get out of the service is higher than what you pay for.
100/h is noce. It is so much nocer if it is going for a year, decade.
If you are worth $100/h but are not getting paid - that is you have cash flow problems, then these are a lot of SaaS to be paying for.
That is a oversimplification but it is (almost) all about cash flow in a small business just getting going