> It took me no more than 2 hours to put those together. We didn't renew our TeamRetro

Okay, so two hours with an LLM vs maybe 2.5 days without an LLM in the best-case scenario (i.e. LLMs gave you a 10x boost. I would expect it to be less than that though, like maybe a 2x boost) - it sounds like it was always pretty cheap to replace the SaaS, but the business didn't do it.

TBH, the arguments were never "It would take too long to do ourselves", it was always "but then we'd have to maintain it ourselves".

The place I am consulting at now just moved (i.e. a month ago) from their in-house built ticketing system ($0/m as it had not needed maintenance for over a year) to Jira (~$2k/m).

In this specific case, it was literally 0 hours to avoid paying the SaaS, and they still moved, because they wanted some modern features (billing for time on support calls, etc) and figured that rather than update their in-house system to add support hours costing (a day, at most) they may as well move to a system that already had it.

(Joke's on them though - the Jira solution for support hours costing is not near the level of granularity they need, even with multiple paid plugins).

Once again, companies aren't using SaaS because it's cheaper or quicker; they could already quickly replace their SaaS with in-house.

How is teamretro a product to begin with? I feel like these SaaS’s exploded like js libraries.

Or just don’t do retro and save even more time and money!

If you're a typical software engineer, that time probably cost your company more than $240.