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Huly – Open-source project management platform

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466 points blacktechnology | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 03:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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dotty- ◴[14 Oct 24 04:05 UTC] No.41834073[source]▶
The pricing is very interesting. The company I work for pays $20k for Jira & Confluence and $20k for Slack every year. And this platform claims I can replace both of them for $3600/year? and it's open source? The marketing looks great, so I hope the platform is actually a good competitor. I'd be so curious to see what their revenue is every year.
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danpalmer ◴[14 Oct 24 04:13 UTC] No.41834109[source]▶
Basecamp is also the same price. SaaS pricing is all made up. If you're a high-margin SaaS company the idea of spending $40k/yr for this seems... fine. If you're a small business, or you operate on retail margins, you'd laugh them out of the room, and rightly so as there are great tools at far better prices.

The idea of every service charging $15-30 per user per month is a myth perpetuated by companies who themselves have that budget to spend out of their VC funding.

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1. colechristensen ◴[14 Oct 24 06:05 UTC] No.41834661[source]▶
SaaS pricing is so weird because for so many things because the cost to run per user is almost zero, but then the company is spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars developing the software.

Evernote once had a valuation of nearly 2 billion, and like 400 employees.

I replaced it with Obsidian which gives me more value and it was mostly just made by two people, now they list 9 employees, one of whom is the office cat.

Each company for me was just syncing some text and maybe a few larger things like PDFs. The actual cost of that is pennies per year.