> ...it's a gut feeling...dependencies: why on Earth would I want to build a product with some many dependencies?
The truth is, your code, the entire discipline of software engineering, everything humans do, and in fact the entire universe itself, is built on dependencies. It's how the world works. We stack more and more layers of abstraction, to achieve higher and higher leverage.
Your employees are dependencies. The internet is a dependency. The building you work from is a dependency. Heating and electricity are dependencies. Food is a dependency. Your fellow man's willingness to pay taxes to fund a common defense (government) is a dependency. Your health is a dependency. The earth is a dependency. Etc. Etc.
Acknowledging the fragility of existence makes us uncomfortable. However, I don't think the right approach to deal with these feelings is to do the business equivalent of running off to the wilderness and living alone in paranoid self-sufficiency.
If you're willing to spend $15,000 a month to depend on a fragile human "employee" being around, maybe paying $15/month for Figma isn't such a big risk--and is in fact worth it?
The truth is, your code, the entire discipline of software engineering, everything humans do, and in fact the entire universe itself, is built on dependencies. It's how the world works. We stack more and more layers of abstraction, to achieve higher and higher leverage.
Your employees are dependencies. The internet is a dependency. The building you work from is a dependency. Heating and electricity are dependencies. Food is a dependency. Your fellow man's willingness to pay taxes to fund a common defense (government) is a dependency. Your health is a dependency. The earth is a dependency. Etc. Etc.
Acknowledging the fragility of existence makes us uncomfortable. However, I don't think the right approach to deal with these feelings is to do the business equivalent of running off to the wilderness and living alone in paranoid self-sufficiency.
If you're willing to spend $15,000 a month to depend on a fragile human "employee" being around, maybe paying $15/month for Figma isn't such a big risk--and is in fact worth it?