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What is your hourly rate? How many hours would it take you to recreate even a subset of this functionality? If the answer is "more than half a day" then assuming typical hourly rates you are better off buying. There's a certain cognitive dissonance here, nobody wants to pay for anything but most of us here earn our livlihoods on people (in one way or another) paying us for the software we create.


I thought this when the highcharts.js story came up a few weeks ago.

How many hundreds of hours would it be to recreate that and you can skip all that pain and maintenance for less than 400 bucks.




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