<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Worth noting: costs for people blow costs for software&amp;#x2F;services out of the water.  I was notoriously spendthrift with regards to SaaS services (&amp;quot;gotta catch them all!&amp;quot;) and spent ~$3 on people last year for every $1 on services.  (And if I had had any FTEs that would have been substantially higher.)&lt;p&gt;Over ~10 years running SaaS apps I generally managed to pretty consistently find ways to spend 40% of revenue.&lt;p&gt;Also worth noting: as you get further from &amp;quot;things which are made by devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies-for-devs-running-businesses-as-hobbies&amp;quot; towards &amp;quot;business inputs sold by businesses to businesses&amp;quot; costs &lt;i&gt;skyrocket&lt;/i&gt;.  You&amp;#x27;re going to spend plural thousands of dollars on bookkeeping and tax compliance every year.  You will eventually need a contract reviewed; that will probably cost you a few hundred bucks.  You&amp;#x27;re going to get a business insurance policy; you&amp;#x27;ll find the bidding starts at a grand.  etc, etc</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running Costs of a SaaS app</title><url>https://cushionapp.com/running-costs</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>destroytoday</author><text>:waves: Hi, I&amp;#x27;m the founder of Cushion. I&amp;#x27;d be happy to answer any questions about our running costs or transparency. (Thanks for posting, @Sujan!)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Running Costs of a SaaS app</title><url>https://cushionapp.com/running-costs</url></story>