Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons

Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by dofm on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:52AM (#49375463)

A tale as old as time… Bending Spoons is who you sell to when you have developed contempt for your customers.

ETA: and contempt for your staff, too, since they basically always lose their jobs after explaining what they do

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Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by coffeebeqn on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:59AM (#49375586)

They’re literally just a big private equity firm with maybe above average PR

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Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:15PM (#49376675)

Same model, but they're more like a holding company for a bunch of tech stuff.

They're apparently a great employer in Italy, which is a much better cost structure than the US (from their perspective).

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Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by dehrmann on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:42PM (#49377013)

We're going to see more of this as the web 2.0 and mobile development booms fade, and I don't have a good solution. What do you do when you're a mature SaaS with a solid customer base, stalled growth, headcount for hypergrowth, and investors looking to move on.

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Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by penguin_booze on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:24PM (#49378987)

> who you sell to

Whom

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Re:Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending S... by dofm on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:40PM (#49379175)

I cannot even begin to tell you how little I care about this sort of tiny-minded obsessiveness.

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