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

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5000 per year, not month

[–] apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Ahhh. Even still. Gimme 5k and I’ll build you a chat room haha.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Update: Slack caved, so they'll continue not owning their data until Slack tries this shit again and succeeds. jfc