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Buying SaaS is not trivial either.

I do most of the service work for a team of 25 - half developers and half non technical product people (art/design). Saas is substantially easier than writing it yourself or even running it yourself.

Github costs $4/user/month, sentry costs $25/month, and 2 digitalocean k8s clusters costs $20/month. For $175/month I can have a decelopment environment with basically 0 maintenance for a team of 25 people, including monitoring and alerting for my app.

Compared to running a local gitlab instance, deploying OpenTelemetry and running my own k8s cluster in aws, it's a complete no brainer to buy SAAS.

Yes almost everyone does that. But outside of the common SaaS services, all SaaS companies with a “contact us” price I contacted came back with a “fuck you” offer.

I've found the exact opposite. I work in games and many of the vendors we deal with don't publicly post their prices, but I've found their pricing fair and competitive. It's not "race to the bottom $4/user/month" but it's usually a fair quote.

That’s nice. I work in the data and cloud industry and everyone thinks their customers are MoneyBagsInc, which is very annoying.

Same experience here with fiber and telecom services. They quote crazy prices for services I already have from their competitors at the lower published rates.

These potential vendors have zero or near zero additional cost to activate service (eg: the OptiTap is only a few tens of feet from where an ONT would be install), yet the sales reps call me every few months asking when I want to light up service and aren't ready to even talk price or SLA, despite knowing what we pay their competitor.

Nothing is trivial

It is trivial if you have the budget

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