Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by osel on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:15AM (#23830218)

A simple check on whether purchasing a service is worth the cost - built in an afternoon in response to a previous HN discussion [1].

A few people expressed interest in embedding something similar in a landing page, so I've open-sourced the code for others to use if they wish.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22497093

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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by glaberficken on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:16AM (#23830569)

Under "Service cost" it could use an option for "one time purchase fee". Obviously that is going to create special cases for the "amortizations" output

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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by osel on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:00PM (#23837019)

Cheers, a few people of suggested this. As you note, it rather depends on the amortization period.

At the moment it assumes 1 year for training costs to be amortized over, so I guess one-time purchase would be similar - configurable assumptions (or at list, visibility into the assumptions) is on the list of things to do.

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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by koheripbal on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:22AM (#23832990)

Yep... conceptually, you want to quantify, recurring gains, recurring costs, one-time gains, and one-time costs.

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Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost? by Sebb767 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:10AM (#23830525)

That's great! Thanks for taking the time to build it.

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