Whilst I love opensource; hitting with $24/mo saving when you invest 100x that much in your time is probably not the way to sell it.

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ray_v a day ago | parent | next [-]

Where it pays off is not when you reach parity with the built product compared to the vendored product - it's when you can continue to extend or customize the capabilities when the original vendor can not or will not support the features you can now build

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ezekg a day ago | parent [-]

I promise you something like this will never monetarily "pay off."

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saulpw a day ago | parent [-]

I don't think they mean "monetarily". But once you have some reasonable parity you can implement your own features/workflow as you want them and not be reliant on Descript.

	▲	ezekg 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The context is i.r.t. the monthly cost and the cost of one's time, which has a monetary value, as well as the cost of tokens. So I think it's rightful to assume the topic is of a monetary pay off.

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pajamasam a day ago | parent | prev [-]

From the commits, it looks like it only took OP about 4 hours with Cursor.

	▲	wassimgr a day ago \| parent [-]
		^ this :)