[balls187]

> Are the services really worth it?

Yes.

> self hosting and diy, cheap, better understanding, and imo more reliable.

What is the cost to get something that has a better uptime than the SLA's of the services you are replacing?

Focus on getting to paying customers. After that, you'll see where your time is better off spent.

Example: I just signed up for a trial for Stripe Sigma. I was going to build my own basic BI using their API. Instead it costs my business ~$10/mo at our size. Now I can spend what would have been time to build, test, deploy that service, to instead just answer the business questions I had.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

The problem is no using a service and having it briefly be unavailable. The problem is that you use a service, get reliant on it, and then they 10x their price, remove key features, and then go out of business.

[stevenwliao]

At that point, if you then build your own, you're still ahead.

[lunchables]

Well, you could also be outsourcing your "build, test, deploy" to someone else and save even more time!

[balls187]

Actually, it would take me more time to write the spec, than it would be to just sign up for sigma.