SaaS bills so high they feel like a death sentence

And Roy told me, now you know what it's like to, you know, to know when you're going to die from SaaS bills.

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am I gonna pay $600 a year for my chat room per person? 20 people plus 20 replicants. 40 people times 600. $24,000 a year. So I was like, what do I do here to my replicant? And Roy told me, now you know what it's like to, you know, to know when you're going to die from SaaS bills. And he said, well, why don't you just use matter post? And I said, squeeze me. And he said, oh, MatterPost is like the open source version of Slack. And he said, yeah, we could just port it over the weekend. You can just export everything, upgrade for one month to this level of Slack,

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Jason discusses the sticker shock of scaling Slack costs when adding AI replicants to his team, facing a $24,000 annual bill for 40 users. A colleague suggests switching to MatterMost, an open-source Slack alternative, as a potential solution to avoid the expensive per-seat pricing model.

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This clip provides a relatable founder problem with a specific cost-saving solution that many startups face when scaling their tools.

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