People will always pay for things of value - myself included. I run a consultancy of 10, and I love the tools I use. - I pay $100 a month for Harvest - I pay

People will always pay for things of value - myself included. I run a consultancy of 10, and I love the tools I use. - I pay $100 a month for Harvest - I pay $100 a month for Pivotal Tracker (though we're going to be replacing that shortly with our first SaaS product, http://projectorpm.com http://projectorpm.com) - I pay $49 a month for Basecamp - I pay $39 a month for Flowdock Are these worth it? Absolutely. I will gladly pay for products that kill the pain of running a company (invoicing, project-centric communication) and make me more money (ability to keep tabs on all of my receivables, etc.) I don't even consider things like Redmine because I don't want to deal with managing my own infrastructure. For example, it's up to Harvest (in order to survive) to monitor, backup and provide a reliable service. The SaaS model isn't going away anytime soon.