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I'd pay to buy a bad house and then spend money to improve it, rather than paying a full rent for the same bad house and hoping that the landlord uses that mone

• fsndz 2y ago
  I don't get the comparison. are you comparing a SaaS that is doing 70% of the job and a shitty streamlit POC that no more than 3 people can use in parallel ??
  • cj 2y ago
    They’re saying that they would rather pay a consultant because they would have control over fixing things that don’t work the way they want. Compared to the alternative of buying a SaaS product that is “rough around the edges” where you’re not able to directly control whether and how the product is improved over time.
    • fsndz 2y ago
      that's a false choice because the SaaS startup will often be willing to modify the product to improve it for customers
      • giva 2y ago
        It can but it's up to its good will. To be clear: It usually makes no sense to develop an internal solution when there is an estabilished offering on the market. If there isn't, embracing an rough and incomplete Saas solution from a startup may work, but: - You have no control on how the solution will evolve - You don't own the solution (an internal solution can became a product on itself) - You don't have any competitive advange (the money you pay are used to develop a product that benefit your competitors as well as you).
• htrp 2y ago
  Exactly this!