[EddieEngineers]

The one I think about was when I was building a 3D model of a new office in Unity and the options were either purchasing a material or trying to design one myself with basically 0 experience of doing so. Something like $40 for the material or however long it'd take me to work it out.

The $10 option was genuine though, it was for some SaaS tool to monitor endpoints and text if things broke (about 9 years ago when I had basically zero coding experience) - so just one seat, or me trying to hack something together with text/email notifications and a nice UI. Even now I'd probably still prefer using something like that over writing something in-house, although I'd be more happy to look at self-hosting an open source option.