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> If there is COGS involved (cost of goods sold), if your widget costs $15 to make it does not matter what target customer purchasing power is, you have to sell it at >=$15 or you are losing money.

Reason why there's an uptick in SaaS companies in Eastern Europe, Asia, and West Africa. They can out-compete on price already and will gradually manage to build software of similar quality as their counterparts living in higher cost-of-living countries.

This has been Freshdesk [0] / Zoho (both based in India) modus operandii for one to two decades now. And one I'm keen on living upto.

[0] https://archive.is/h1n6z




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