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have to pay $25K upfront That's a lot of your money. It's not a big dose of OPM (Other People's Money). When building a business, adequate capitalization sol
by brudgers 2y ago
have to pay $25K upfront
That's a lot of your money.
It's not a big dose of OPM (Other People's Money).
When building a business, adequate capitalization solve a lot technical problems and it is no different when a business is built. If you aren't building a business, money is different and there's nothing wrong with not building a business. Good luck.
- muzani 2y agoIdk man, it's a massive chunk of Other People's Money too. Prices like this is why Microsoft Teams has dominance over Slack. There's really two use cases: 1. If you don't use the budget, you have less budget. I see this happen a lot in construction too, where each project has a set budget and it goes down or gets stolen in time. They'd rather pay $25k for the lifetime of a 2 year project than pay $500/month. (the other fear is that these startups shut down in a year) 2. Tax exemptions, or some sort of money laundering where there's more value to pay a big name lots of money.
- sshine 2y agoThere's a lot of valid business cases that rely on parsing PDFs but does not warrant spending $25k on it. I've helped prototype something using PyMuPDF. It worked as well as it had to, and it didn't cost $25k.
- Kiro 2y agoStrange comment and bad advice in general. This is a problem that doesn't need $25k to be solved. You're basically telling them to give up or raise money for no reason at all.
- manquer 2y agoFor me it wouldn't be about the 25k upfront,it is just working with Adobe is incredibly painful, same for Oracle. I really really don't want to work with them in any capacity if i can avoid. If say MS charged the same or even double that I would still work with them, they at-least they don't treat their customers as criminals.