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by porpoisemonkey 1479 days ago
Not the OP, but in one of the smaller companies (~30 people/~12 engineers) you describe that's currently looking for a tool like this.

I can't actually see the pricing because it's behind a nebulous "contact us" link, but if this is more than about $5/user/month I would definitely balk at the price.

Larger companies already have dedicated platform and tooling teams with enough technical talent and bandwidth to build this sort of solution (I've seen something eerily similar to this at a previous employer that had about ~75 engineers). IMHO it's the small companies that need off the shelf incident management because they have very few people to dedicate to solving this problem and need a way to manage the communication chaos that incidents can cause.

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You'd balk at more than $5/user/mo? For 12 engineers, that's only $60/mo (and for all 30 employees, $150/mo). I'd guess that you're not a C-level since you said you'd balk at that price, which is incredibly cheap. I pay more for my business's status page.
Thank you for the feedback, we'll make some changes to the page.

Agree on those companies having technical talent and in fact a vast majority of our customers came to us with their own bot built out that resembles of our features. It really comes down to the age old question, build vs buy? The maintenance cost and feature enhancements for something owned in-house can be burdensome but I am obviously bias towards it.

We've seen it takes usually at least an engineer one whole quarter to standup the basics of nailing creating incidents right with some basic automation.

But the times customers decide building it themselves isn't worth it is often a) someone that owned it had left the company and b) its a big distraction from their core focus/ has become a full-time job to maintain.