Unpopular opinion:
Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in.
When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool.
Often out of spite!
Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in.
When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool.
Often out of spite!
Can't really point to another business where customers will sometimes leave a vendor even if it costs them a *lot more* to migrate off, or build a tool.
Unsaid is how it's professionally satisfying to prove that we can build a complex tool, plus it's often rewarded by leadership as well!
Unsaid is how it's professionally satisfying to prove that we can build a complex tool, plus it's often rewarded by leadership as well!
"Our equity platform doubled pricing? No clue what they do, why do you ask me"
"Our feature flagging vendor wants to push us into a higher tier to keep SSO and would cost us an additional $3,000 per year (10% increase)?
I'll build a new FF system in a week, saving us $10K**
** not counting development, migration, maintenance and opportunity cost. But seriously how hard can it be to build feature flags: I'll show them!
"Our feature flagging vendor wants to push us into a higher tier to keep SSO and would cost us an additional $3,000 per year (10% increase)?
I'll build a new FF system in a week, saving us $10K**
** not counting development, migration, maintenance and opportunity cost. But seriously how hard can it be to build feature flags: I'll show them!
Huge respect for anyone being able to build and run a successful and profitable dev tools startup or company
Cannot think of many more challenging things. And must be SO satisfying if you manage! This is the founder of @raygunio
Cannot think of many more challenging things. And must be SO satisfying if you manage! This is the founder of @raygunio
https://x.com/traskjd/status/1886483956192657410
Even more respect to dev tools companies that "give back" in some way to the broader ecosystem (it could be open source, could be other ways.)
After a while you realize great dev tools/dev ecosystems are rare, and as devs we DO need to appreciate them & the people who make them
After a while you realize great dev tools/dev ecosystems are rare, and as devs we DO need to appreciate them & the people who make them
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