Around 300USD/month on close to 15 services.
Which services and whats your breakdown?
Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
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Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who are you currently for your telecom services? I'm always surprised about the amount of money businesses spend on their phone system.
Mostly it's Twilio costs. I spend an unconscionable amount on my cell phone bill due to e.g. international roaming or international phone calls for sales/support, but that doesn't even crater the approach to the bridge of what Twilio costs me. (And I rush to say "I'm totally fine with that, and wish I spent 100X as much, because to a first approximation that would imply revenues 100X higher than they are currently.")
re: cell phone bills, have you thought about getting a raspberry-pi or a larger server running asterisk with chan_dongle, and using a prepaid sim card at each country as your "gsm gateway"(1)?
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#53$80k/month, SaaS company running on AWS.
0_o
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would recommend BitTorrent Sync [1] for personal usage. [1] - http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
If you're going to use proprietary software you might as well just use Dropbox.
Not if the transfer is encrypted and the files are stored on your own server.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#55Our Saas, Pixtulate, is currently in beta and bootstrapped. We have optimized for lowest cost possible at the moment and our traffic is still fairly low. 1. DigitalOcean - $110/month 2. Google Apps - $5/month 3. UptimeRobot - Free (just as good as Pingdom) 4. CloudFlare - Free (serving under 2 TB/month) 6. Amazon S3 - $1.40/month 7. MixPanel - Free 8. HeapAnalytics - Free 9. Google Analytics - Free 10. BaseCRM - Free…
Thanks for the tip on UptimeRobot!
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#56I 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…
my account was within literally days of running out of funds, which I only found out because I just happened to check now
You would have received an email when your account balance hit 7 days worth of storage costs. And another when it hit zero. And another 7+ days later.
But if you're saying I should have a mechanism for automatically re-billing credit cards when a Tarsnap account balance gets low -- yes, that's on my to-do list.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#57Our Saas, Pixtulate, is currently in beta and bootstrapped. We have optimized for lowest cost possible at the moment and our traffic is still fairly low. 1. DigitalOcean - $110/month 2. Google Apps - $5/month 3. UptimeRobot - Free (just as good as Pingdom) 4. CloudFlare - Free (serving under 2 TB/month) 6. Amazon S3 - $1.40/month 7. MixPanel - Free 8. HeapAnalytics - Free 9. Google Analytics - Free 10. BaseCRM - Free…
> GoDaddy
Yikes.
Re: Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
#58I use only one SaaS service e.g. Anturis (http:www.anturis.com, an IT infrastructure monitoring solution and I have to pay about $40 a month. I think that is is not much at all for quality service.