Spent $15000 a year at my old job (mostly on channeladvisor)
Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
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#12Honestly, I believe the pricing model deployed by most Sass product is broken. I know they do experiment and that best clients are the ones willing to pay a premium, and that they are indeed the ones to be taken care of. However, does it not look more like, get the most from the few? I don't run or own any Sass Products, so I may be utterly wrong, but won't it not be that there is a gradual increase in price along wi…
That's actually what we do with CloudLedger Basic from Efficito.[1]
$7.50/month for your first user. $2.50/month for your second user. In theory you could, if you talk with us, maybe go up to 6-7 users, but really at that rate you are likely to be better off going with our premium service of $30/month which gets you a VM of specific capacity aimed at around 10 simultaneous users (that also comes with it the chance of customization and integration with your business network). That service can scale up and out as needed but with additional cost.
The major differences between the basic and plus offering is that since you get a full VM with the plus offering, you can get direct access tot he database, integrate with your network via VPN, or re-use your LDAP or Active Directory services for single sign-on. Additionally it is possible to customize the offering in ways that are not possible in the less expensive, multi-tenant offering.
We actually thought through that issue. I will admit our site isn't nearly perfect yet but hey we're two geeks trying to make a go of it without as much time or resources as we would like.
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#13For http://letscodejavascript.com, I spend about $1000 per month on various services. The biggest expenses go to PayPal, credit card processors, and Recurly, which all charge a percentage of revenue. Other than that, it's SendFaster, which hosts my videos ($200); Heroku, which hosts the site ($66); and Pingdom, which monitors my sites for uptime ($9). I also spend a small amount each year for TypeKit (fonts).
Edit: I should add that Let's Code JavaScript isn't a side project; it's my primary revenue stream.
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#14I spend about $10k a year on SaaS, depending on how you define it. In 2013 I had 175 charges in my accounting software for it. Prominent expenses and the approximate monthly rates include: Wistia ($100), WPEngine ($250), Sendgrid ($100), 37signals ($100), KissMetrics ($150), and then a large grabbag of sub-$20 SaaSes such as Blinksale, Airbreak, Scout, Dropbox, Google Apps, etc etc. The smallest SaaS expense: Tarsnap…
Who are you currently for your telecom services? I'm always surprised about the amount of money businesses spend on their phone system.
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#15Around 300USD/month on close to 15 services.
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#16Small, conservative design shop, SaaS is about $60-80 per seat per month, varying by role. The bulk of that is Creative Cloud, which is at least twice as expensive as it should be.
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#17Two servers from OVH is my only expense for side projects, total is around $30/pm
Using quite a few free services like Pingdom, Cloudflare, Analytics etc...
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#18$80k/month, SaaS company running on AWS.
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#19Till the whole NSA thing came out I was spending around $200-$300 for several services. After that I switched to a local server and FOSS alternatives to Dropbox, Github & co.
Now my SaaS spending is $0 or $10 depending on if you count Spotify as SaaS.
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#20Looking at my Expenses Table[1] I am spending about $16.52 a week on SaaS: GitHub, Creative Cloud, IRCCloud, Private Internet Access and Last.fm. In a few weeks I’ll be adding FreshBooks to this table. I don’t host any demanding side projects - really just anything that can be hosted on GitHub Pages - so most of my expenses are to facilitate my design consultancy.