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I think you make good arguments, but #1 is a typical techie argument: Why would I ever use $SaaS if I could just cobble something together with rsync and Excel?

• hnracer 6y ago
  This was the basis of the scepticism towards Dropbox in that infamous HN thread. In the end if I'm either an individual consumer or a business consumer I just want my problem solved really well and not have to always build a custom solution in house for everything. But I can see other contexts where OP's advice applies, either when requirements are very bespoke or when the problem is little more than a small annoyance and existing tools do the job just fine