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Everything is a fucking subscription these days. You can bet that if you want me to pay monthly or yearly for your software I WILL be trying to find an alternative.

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>Developers are told "to focus on the product" and let SaaS vendors handle the rest, but integrating third-party services, whether it's auth, queuing, file storage, or image optimization, comes at a cost. Not just in dollars but in time, friction, and mental overhead. There are five hidden taxes you pay every time you integrate a SaaS into your stack.

Everything is a fucking subscription these days. You can bet that if you want me to pay monthly or yearly for your software I WILL be trying to find an alternative. Archive: https://archive.today/KafHo From the post: >>Developers are told "to focus on the product" and let SaaS vendors handle the rest, but integrating third-party services, whether it's auth, queuing, file storage, or image optimization, comes at a cost. Not just in dollars but in time, friction, and mental overhead. There are five hidden taxes you pay every time you integrate a SaaS into your stack.

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The company I work for got screwed royally by them. My moronic director thought it was a brilliant idea. After the first year they tripled the cost knowing all his crap was stuck on their services. He lost the company millions. He's moved everything over to Google now and I'm waiting for the same sticker shock in a year or two.

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It will happen. Eventually people may realize having a very small or contract IT service is cheap compared to this bullshit.