> Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but this whole "Don't build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, u

> Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but this whole "Don't build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas" seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it's a gut feeling. Nope, its legit: Majority of startups don't have the resources building themselves. They can, but every dollar spent on that and not the product ends up being a risk.\ The objective of a startup is to get to a stable and strong position as fast as possible. And this can only happen with its product/business. The 'great infra' that it may have behind is totally transparent and, honestly, irrelevant as far as the end users and customers are concerned. We, as technical people, love to think that if the infra or the software breaks, it will affect the business too. But it will rarely break, with any competent people handling it behind the scenes. Be it in-house, be it SaaS. Its MUCH better to get to a point where the product/business is actually making money and the company has the funds and deal with everything later. Because without a viable business, it won't matter how great your infra or software stack is.