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Only if sysadmin time is $0/h. I’ve nothing against self hosting, but it isn’t necessarily cheaper than saas just because you can get amazing amounts of hardwa

• pessimizer 1y ago
  Most of this stuff runs on autopilot once it's set up, which is why these companies have such huge margins. That rounding error in accounting is also a monthly charge, and it sometimes happens that you get a spontaneous demand for $50K in a week and $200K in the next year. That could buy you enough hardware to run a chat for every school hacking club in the world, and a sysadmin to manage it.