Mostly because of the stacked cost with all other 3rd party apps also used. It all adds up quickly. Google, Pivotal, Slack, CI, Github, Docker, AWS, and probably another 3-5. Oh yeah, Typekit and Invision too. Even for only 22 that’s a crap load of money every month.

Even more since we are not first world rates, although among the most expensive ones locally selling to USA, EU and also Hong Kong. It allows us to become CTOs, as angel investor, for the local startups we support. They can’t afford Slack, but there’s awesome other deals to be gotten via F6S and we have a collab with AWS for the usual $1k credits.

Our CFO loves to bring up Slack every so often, but we usually counter him by saying that he doesn’t need to get a new laptop every 18 months like all devs do. That balances the Slack expense out. :D