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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
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armada651 ◴[18 Sep 25 02:11 UTC] No.45284247[source]▶
> a pretty massive sum of money

I feel like the perception of money is distorted in tech circles. To me $10,000 is a pretty massive sum of money. For most people $250,000 represents a life-changing amount of money.

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syntaxing ◴[18 Sep 25 02:23 UTC] No.45284368[source]▶
To a person yes. To a business, not so much. It’s just the “cost of business”. A ton of hardware software is north of 10K for barebones license. Really adds up if you start stacking stuff (looking at you Catia and COMSOL).
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1. casparvitch ◴[18 Sep 25 03:00 UTC] No.45284727[source]▶
Sure, but COMSOL does a lot of work for you you couldn't achieve otherwise - I find it hard to see glorified irc (slack) as ever being worth $200k a year!!!