"Look, this is how many external Saas-dependencies we have and we have no control over our service."
Just saying, because it is one thing to use open source and totally different thing to rely on 3rd party services.
Why do we feel software always has to be built from scratch or use free (open?) stuff? What is wrong in software being built on credible third party services?
Perhaps the sign of a mature industry is when such credible third party partnerships become the norm...
Of course, so would a power outage. So IDK, there's pros and cons, as with everything.
My view point was not from a single individual using the product but from the manufacturers view point.
Sure you can run your own centralized git hosting for your team. Do you really think you could do it better and more reliably than GitHub? Especially for less than $7/mo? And sure you can probably run your own instance of postgres, but how confident are you that your backups are going to be there when you need them? And that it'll be up as much as a dedicated instance of Heroku Postgres? I can probably count the number of people more experienced and qualified than that team (wrt running Postgres) on my fingers and none of them are going to run your database for $50/mo.