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$99 a year is cheap as a business expense if it’s bringing you in money. Indeed. They could have paid for another 15 years of the service for just what it cost
by jasonkester 4y ago
$99 a year is cheap as a business expense if it’s bringing you in money.
Indeed. They could have paid for another 15 years of the service for just what it cost this one engineer to clean up from this mistake. Probably another 30 years worth to stand up and migrate to their own hosted version, assuming it never needs any maintenance whatsoever.
Hopefully they’ll have the sense to not touch it further.
- nkmnz 4y ago1) You overestimate a founder’s salary by 20-30x - 100 dollars is more than a day’s net salary. 2) The problem, again, is the false claim during downgrade. 3) self hosting a couple of icons is a matter of 15-30min - make a request to the kit, store assets, commit, push, deploy demo, test, deploy prod, done. But not if the kit is not accessible anymore - even though advertised as such. 4) I agree it has been a mistake to ever rely on a 3rd party to host icons. From todays POV, it’s ridiculous I’ve ever made that lazy decision.
- jasonkester 4y agoYou overestimate a founder’s salary by 20-30x - 100 dollars is more than a day’s net salary. When I’m bootstrapping, I tend to value my time at my normal consulting rate, since that’s what we’re ultimately comparing to. If I wasn’t putting this hour into the client on a work day, I’d be billing it to a client, so that’s the opportunity cost in my head. But yeah, that certainly changes the math a bit. My reply above was in the more normal context of a salaried engineer deciding to save the company £10/month by spending £15,000 in billable hours building an alternative.