I’ve seen this in person. You have some great legacy clients who started free to use that are totally disconnected with the pricing structure imagined by the new people who are disconnected with the original purpose of the product.
Possibly this is some kind of automated function but more realistically in sales:
Some middle manager looks at the total users 😔/ or maybe active users and tells their sales team to jack the price without any understanding of the account.
People keep getting surprised that capitalists be acting like capitalists.
I think the more shocking part is how a company is willing to pay $5000 a month for a chat room. More people need to make self hosted software options To bankrupt these types of people
5000 per year, not month
Ahhh. Even still. Gimme 5k and I’ll build you a chat room haha.
Hmm, I don’t know how many people they were serving,
but with $5k a month, I think I could buy enough hardware to increase concurrent user count by at least 500 every month. And that is including the internet and cooling bill.there are already countless self hosted options out there probably.
these people would rather pay slack than us for implementing such a thing though.
These people pay for the peace of mind - no worrying about backups, power supply, network outages, compliance, retention policy or whatnot.
The service has to be up and secure 100% of the time. A data breach or downtime costs a company a lot of money.
the peace of mind of getting extorted
