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SaaS is an absolute cancer. I know a lot of those fat six figure salaries are contingent on people paying $9.99/mo for a grocery shopping list app, but its gett

• arbitrage 5y ago
  Who are you apologising to? You're being more than a bit hyperbolic & disingenuous. I pay $15/year for a grocery list app that solves several problems for me. That is, I pay money for concurrent access, web-scraping that works, and an organisational system to help me feed my family. This is a great value to me: the $1.25 a month that I pay for my grocery list app has made my life easier.
  • dazc 5y ago
    I'm not sure whether this a joke or not?
    • imtringued 5y ago
      If it saves you 2 hours per year it will be worth it even if you are paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25. If it takes 2 hours to cancel it, it could definitively be a net negative though.
• throw10920 5y ago
  > SaaS is an absolute cancer. I pay $40/year for Remember the Milk, a SaaS, and it's one of the most valuable ways that I spend my money - I easily get more than $40 a month in increased productivity (assuming a $20/hour personal time rate). Speak for yourself.
  • everdrive 5y ago
    I think it's a signal to noise thing. There are definitely good services out there. There are just as many terrible, predatory ones. And sometimes, more insidiously, a good service slowly transitions into a predatory service. I'm definitely not really suggesting that people should never use any services. Just that in general, these should be viewed with suspicion, and you should have an exit plan: you could find out nefarious things about your service, or the service could be modified leaving you high and dry.