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Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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I think the more shocking part is how a company is willing to pay $5000 a month for a chat room. More people need to make self hosted software options To bankrupt these types of people
5000 per year, not month
Ahhh. Even still. Gimme 5k and I’ll build you a chat room haha.
These people pay for the peace of mind - no worrying about backups, power supply, network outages, compliance, retention policy or whatnot.
The service has to be up and secure 100% of the time. A data breach or downtime costs a company a lot of money.
Hmm, I don't know how many people they were serving,
but with $5k a month, I think I could buy enough hardware to increase concurrent user count by at least 500 every month. And that is including the internet and cooling bill.