Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years

Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years by Raidion on Friday January 13, 2023 @10:55PM (#34377247)

These are costs that you have determined are worth it. You don't have to pay for Postman if it's $29 a month, but it clearly saves you >$29 a month of productivity. You feel that Bonusly reduces your turnover just enough to be worth $4.5 a month.

Not saying that people couldn't make licenses a bit more friendly. But saying it's expensive to purchase tools you could just not purchase if they weren't worth it doesn't make sense.

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Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years by NineStarPoint on Saturday January 14, 2023 @02:19AM (#34378043)

I think the main point is that “it’s only 10 dollars s month” is a bad argument. Yes, it can be worth it, but there are gigantic swaths of things that could be worth 10 dollars to purchase and a company is only going to be willing to pay for so many of those. Postman doesn’t just need to be worth 29 dollars a month in productivity, it needs to be worth more than everything else I could convince the organization to spend 29 dollars a month on at this point in time.

Especially in this industry where you’re inevitably in competition with free software as well.

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