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SaaS We Happily Pay For

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Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

#5
Linear looks fascinating.

We’re using Zenhub now and it’s slow and misused in our org (one giant project board instead of separate boards per repo / project).

Curious if anyone here is / has used linear and could compare their experience with it to Monday, Asana or Zenhub?

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

#6
SavvyCal looks interesting, but for a "lean operation" can you really justify paying $12 per month per user for a service to schedule meetings? All of GSuite starts at $6/mo, and already does this.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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post #6

SavvyCal looks interesting, but for a "lean operation" can you really justify paying $12 per month per user for a service to schedule meetings? All of GSuite starts at $6/mo, and already does this.

> made by a solo indie developer that we're happy to support.

That would be a good reason to pay well for a nice product imo.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

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post #6

SavvyCal looks interesting, but for a "lean operation" can you really justify paying $12 per month per user for a service to schedule meetings? All of GSuite starts at $6/mo, and already does this.

Heard this one before.

"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?"

Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.

Re: SaaS We Happily Pay For

#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, for no reason! I went on a mission and cut the cord on almost all them. We honestly do not miss a single one. You'd be surprised how many great FOSS (free & open source software) are out there that you can deploy on your own VM and have unlimited number of team members and OWN YOUR OWN DATA!!!

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