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$10/month difference is, to use your phrasing, absolutely nothing. It's not worth anyone's time to make that switch unless it's some toy app paid for out of poc
by zedpm 2y ago
$10/month difference is, to use your phrasing, absolutely nothing. It's not worth anyone's time to make that switch unless it's some toy app paid for out of pocket.
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- Alupis 2y agoMost software businesses start off as "toy apps" and are paid for out of pocket. The parent's comment is right - that is a lot of money for not a lot of value, particularly when you are early stage. The trick is in finding balance between paying ridiculous fees (relative to your revenue/customer base) to make things more simple vs. find another way and spend your time instead. A prime example are identify provider services, such as Auth0. The free tier is good enough for development, but as soon as you expect to onboard customers the free tier starts to feel deliberately gimped. Are you willing to spend $20 a month just to use a custom login domain? For the zero customers you have? $20 a month might feel like "nothing", but it's $20 a month forever and it's $20 a month that could be allocated to other things, such as compute or your accounting software. It's not always that clear cut, however.
- infecto 2y agoI think it is fairly clear. If you are building a product of passion that you may tinker with for years, by all means cut costs as much as possible. If you are an actual early stage venture I don't believe those costs meet a high enough threshold to matter.
- Alupis 2y agoIt depends, as things usually do. $20 here, $10 there, eventually ends up as $600 monthly or more, and no customer anywhere in sight. That may, or may not be sustainable or make sense. Flush with cash? Knock yourself out. Bootstrapping? You can spend that money a lot more effectively than just loading up on a bunch of overpriced SaaS products to make life easier. You have to earn the easy route by growing your revenue.