I have frequently found myself directed to build something when it clearly would have been better for the company to buy (or use SaaS). It seems like a lot of b

I have frequently found myself directed to build something when it clearly would have been better for the company to buy (or use SaaS). It seems like a lot of business owners and managers have some mental block that makes it hard for them to pay for that kind of thing directly, but easy for them to burn shitloads of developer, ops, and support hours doing the same thing in-house even when there's no strong business reason to do so. Totally bizarre.