How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
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How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
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Re: How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
#2I wonder how many of those service are at a "just in case" level? I see a number of products I have/do use, but the team only needed a smaller version of. (for instance, $97 for Github when a $25 org plan would work)
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#3this is really interesting - i work at an internal incubator at Intel ( new business initiatives ) ...and we don't use nearly this many services in our new ventures - so an interesting contrast for sure.
i interesting to see what breaks the 99 barrier
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#4I wonder how many of those service are at a "just in case" level? I see a number of products I have/do use, but the team only needed a smaller version of. (for instance, $97 for Github when a $25 org plan would work)
Since we run two products (both Muck Rack and the Shorty Awards), we end up paying twice for some services like Github.
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#5While interesting - there's often a free or opensource alternative for these "generic" SaaS services. You'd probably be spending just as much on this list if you used no SaaS products and hired an engineer to either maintain the open source versions or add similar custom functionality to your product/CMS/dashboard/somewhere. If you hired the engineer, you'd probably get the exact functionality you needed too.
Re: How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
#6While interesting - there's often a free or opensource alternative for these "generic" SaaS services. You'd probably be spending just as much on this list if you used no SaaS products and hired an engineer to either maintain the open source versions or add similar custom functionality to your product/CMS/dashboard/somewhere. If you hired the engineer, you'd probably get the exact functionality you needed too.
ahh what!!!! did you see the amount of services provided?? could you please support your statement with some logic
Re: How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
#7That's a lot of money spend for not so much in return, imho. Not to even mention the time spend on integration everything with each other. Which also equals are certain money amount.
I'm quite sure that for a lot, if not majority of the packages you pay for, there is a perfect open source, free to use alternatives. Which might require just as much time to integrate as it's paid alternative, but you will have full control, self hosted.
Also consider the impact of the information you are sharing with all these third parties. Might be a bigger concern then currently estimated.
Example, the dead man's snitch, it kind of leaks every time a cronjob runs/fails.
Re: How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
#8While interesting - there's often a free or opensource alternative for these "generic" SaaS services. You'd probably be spending just as much on this list if you used no SaaS products and hired an engineer to either maintain the open source versions or add similar custom functionality to your product/CMS/dashboard/somewhere. If you hired the engineer, you'd probably get the exact functionality you needed too.
We have engineers and we already spend a lot more on them than we do on SaaS. But we want them focused on building Muck Rack into an awesome PR tool for our customers, not internal tools unless they're specific to our product.
Even so I don't think there's any engineer we could hire for $60k salary (or any salary for that matter) who could effectively maintain all of the functionality we get from these products, but if you know of one please send them our way! http://sawhorsemedia.com/jobs/
Re: How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products
#9While interesting - there's often a free or opensource alternative for these "generic" SaaS services. You'd probably be spending just as much on this list if you used no SaaS products and hired an engineer to either maintain the open source versions or add similar custom functionality to your product/CMS/dashboard/somewhere. If you hired the engineer, you'd probably get the exact functionality you needed too.
Hiring an engineer to work on things that are not strategic to your core products or services seems like a distraction. Engineers also cost a lot more than 55k per year. Even if you could, I can't anyone who would be willing to maintain 30+ open source products as part of their job.
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#10Interesting. Cheaper than the salary for an employee and probably together are able to help you do more than a single person.