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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by prakhar897 on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:23AM (#34451596)
A few years ago, I built an exact replica of a Saas product I saw online and priced it 1/3 theirs. The actual founder went mad and started a smear campaign. Lucky for him, Workload at my regular job picked up and I abandoned the project, but this highlighted the weak moats of most of these products.

and this is the main reason most companies overhire. It's so that engineers are less inclined to go home and build their own competitor.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by simmerup on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:07AM (#34451941)
The other way to view is that even though you could undercut that business by two thirds, you didn’t make enough profit to make it worth pursuing over your day job.

So maybe you were selling it far too cheap after all.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by prakhar897 on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:16PM (#34459190)
I would've made significant more than my day job just by subscriptions (not counting share value). I had just joined workforce and leaving it so early didn't seem right to me.
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by FlyingSnake on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:46AM (#34453821)
For most of these companies sales and marketing is the moat.

Edit: curious to know what was the SaaS that got rattled by your fun experiment.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by prakhar897 on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:19PM (#34459239)
I'll dm u :)
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by simonswords82 on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:25PM (#34456440)
> and this is the main reason most companies overhire. It's so that engineers are less inclined to go home and build their own competitor.

This is most definitely not true.

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by threadweaver34 on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:28PM (#34456482)
If hosting is cheap, I'd be tempted to put it out for free just to up the ante with the other company.
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