David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp, announced that they will not be renewing their yearly commitment to the performance and monitoring tool, Datadog, due to the exorbitant cost of $88,000 per year.
- The co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, finds enterprise SaaS pricing unreasonable.
- A crypto company was mentioned in a recent earnings call, paying $65 million for similar services.
- Hansson suggests that open-source alternatives can be a more affordable option.
- He criticizes the expenses incurred by companies for enterprise SaaS software like Salesforce's Slack, Asana, and Dropbox.
- Hansson believes that a correction in pricing is necessary and expects pressure to reduce costs in the future.
