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by PheonixPharts 801 days ago
I'm always surprised how cheap software engineers can be when purchasing products created by other software engineers, specifically designed around their needs.

No matter where you live on earth, if you're a software engineer $10/month is nothing. I seriously don't think you would notice if someone was quietly stealing $10 a month from you.

And yet that $10 a month would pay for a product that nearly all of us in this community wish existed.

But the biggest irony for me, is that all software engineers get paid what they do because someone on the other side of their business is willing to pay a lot more for what ever service you're ultimately helping to build. If everyone was this cheap about software, software engineers would be making minimum wage.