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SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by scrollaway »

ryanSrich wrote: post #18

SaaS I happily pay for: - CloudFlare - Roam - Slack - Linear - Geekbot SaaS I’m okay with paying for: - Figma - Gsuite - Gusto - Stripe - Netlify SaaS I’d rather not pay for, but have no choice: - AWS (SaaS in a sense I suppose - I actually don’t “pay” yet, working my way through credits) - Heroku (terribly expensive and does not provide startup credits that they say they do) - Wistia (the platform is clunky, but the…

I'm very curious about why you classified your "okay with" lower than the other ones, especially stripe which literally drives your revenue!

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by plehoux »

"Collaborative email on top of G Suite. The main thing we pay for is a comment box below each email thread. It allows us to quickly discuss emails without forwarding or copy/pasting in Slack. It also allows us to edit drafts collaboratively and have multiple team inboxes for invoices, support, and other stuff."

Thanks for the mention Francesco. I'm Philippe, one of the co-founders of Missive [1], don't hesitate if you have any questions.

p.s. We are a tiny team (4) too and use many SaaS ourselves.

[1] https://missiveapp.com/

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

haburka wrote: post #15
bamazizi wrote: post #9

While I think it's great you're thinking of tools to optimize your time BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month you're spending right now! I understand you have your own SAAS and want to justify subscription and this is a good promo method. I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, f…

Considering that the effective salary of 1 person/mo would be around ~15k, I think spending $200 to make people more efficient is absolutely worth it

The problem comes when services start effectively 10x'ing or 100x'ing prices, like what postman did at the beginning of this year (bumping up the price for each tier and dramatically reducing what you get)

That $200/mo today could easily be $200K/mo a few years from now, and at that point it will be harder to switch off.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by ryanSrich »

scrollaway wrote: post #31
ryanSrich wrote: post #18

SaaS I happily pay for: - CloudFlare - Roam - Slack - Linear - Geekbot SaaS I’m okay with paying for: - Figma - Gsuite - Gusto - Stripe - Netlify SaaS I’d rather not pay for, but have no choice: - AWS (SaaS in a sense I suppose - I actually don’t “pay” yet, working my way through credits) - Heroku (terribly expensive and does not provide startup credits that they say they do) - Wistia (the platform is clunky, but the…

I'm very curious about why you classified your "okay with" lower than the other ones, especially stripe which literally drives your revenue!

> Figma

Figma isn’t very good. It’s better than sketch for prototyping, but not as good for vector. It’s also web based, so it’s painfully slow. I also think it’s a bit expensive.

> Gsuite

Google is an evil company, but it’s a choice between giving an evil company money, or using a terrible product (O365). I have to focus on the business, not wondering why Outlook isn’t filtering Spam. So Gsuite it is.

> Gusto

Gusto is fine really. I contemplated putting this one in the Happily category, but ultimately decided to move it down given that I do think it’s a bit expensive for what you get.

> Stripe

Stripe’s core payment processing is obviously the best around. Where I have issue with Stripe is in the fees they charge (pretty high), and their new Customer Billing Portal. It’s a half baked product that doesn’t support even slightly complex billing mechanisms.

> Netlify

Netfliy is a good product, and I enjoy using it, but their pricing is strange. I can host 10 sites for free but it’s $15 per user for a collaborator? Seems weird. I’d happily pay say $30/m for unlimited users.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by frankdilo »

plehoux wrote: post #32

"Collaborative email on top of G Suite. The main thing we pay for is a comment box below each email thread. It allows us to quickly discuss emails without forwarding or copy/pasting in Slack. It also allows us to edit drafts collaboratively and have multiple team inboxes for invoices, support, and other stuff." Thanks for the mention Francesco. I'm Philippe, one of the co-founders of Missive [1], don't hesitate if yo…

Wow. Didn’t know you were such a small team. Cheers

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by system2 »

haburka wrote: post #15
bamazizi wrote: post #9

While I think it's great you're thinking of tools to optimize your time BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month you're spending right now! I understand you have your own SAAS and want to justify subscription and this is a good promo method. I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, f…

Considering that the effective salary of 1 person/mo would be around ~15k, I think spending $200 to make people more efficient is absolutely worth it

Sir, where do you pay $15k for a startup developer salary?!

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by santoshalper »

bamazizi wrote: post #9

While I think it's great you're thinking of tools to optimize your time BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month you're spending right now! I understand you have your own SAAS and want to justify subscription and this is a good promo method. I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, f…

Honestly, I am less concerned with the money and more concerned with the level of process overhead. This article makes it sound like they are spending a lot of time in email, notes, meeting minutes, etc. Which seems like an awful lot for 3 people who can just talk to each other. I feel like todo.txt is enough organization for three people.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by omgwtfbyobbq »

After reading the comments, whether SaaS is worth it seems to depend on a company's circumstances.

A company that depends on capital from investors likely needs to grow at a certain rate, and SaaS can help with that. For a company that's self funded and does not need to grow quickly, using FOSS instead of SaaS can be very beneficial. As usual, YMMV.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by seehafer »

plehoux wrote: post #32

"Collaborative email on top of G Suite. The main thing we pay for is a comment box below each email thread. It allows us to quickly discuss emails without forwarding or copy/pasting in Slack. It also allows us to edit drafts collaboratively and have multiple team inboxes for invoices, support, and other stuff." Thanks for the mention Francesco. I'm Philippe, one of the co-founders of Missive [1], don't hesitate if yo…

ETA on further integrations, esp, HubSpot? Sick of paying Front an extra $20/user/mo just for that.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Post by lordnacho »

system2 wrote: post #36
haburka wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering that the effective salary of 1 person/mo would be around ~15k, I think spending $200 to make people more efficient is absolutely worth it

Sir, where do you pay $15k for a startup developer salary?!

Depending on jurisdiction, there are taxes and such on top of salary.
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