SaaS services behind a startup
Maybe it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m getting old, but this whole &quot;Don&#x27;t build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas&quot; seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it&#x27;s a gut feeling.<p>Now, if somehow your people need Figma, you are not going to build it yourself (that would be crazy). But perhaps the question to ask is &quot;Do you actually need Figma?&quot;. If your business absolutely depends on how your UI&#x2F;UX looks and feels, then sure, designers in your company have a powerful voice and, indeed, Figma may be a very valuable tool. But I don&#x27;t think Bytebase needs Figma. Sure, their designers will probably need to work with prototypes and designs, but the whole thing is not essential to the business imho.<p>Same goes for Linear, Neat, Sourcegraph, and a few others. And my argument is not, the money ($1K&#x2F;month should be something any SaaS with decent revenue can easily afford), my argument is dependencies: why on Earth would I want to build a product with some many dependencies?<p>I don&#x27;t know. Building a product with so many dependencies feels very amateur, error prone, and prone to instability. Again, it&#x27;s just a gut feeling from some old dude that has been doing software since the late 90s. Maybe it&#x27;s just the way things are done nowadays.