Why Not Try Creating My Version Of It

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Why Not Try Creating My Version Of It

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The classic open source bait-and-switch. You discover what seems like the perfect tool, get all excited about the possibilities, only to click that innocent-looking "Pricing" tab and watch your dreams shatter.

And then comes that inevitable developer reflex: "Fine, I'll build my own version without the enterprise paywall." Six months and 47 GitHub commits later, you've reinvented a slightly worse wheel, abandoned three other projects, and somehow still end up paying for the original tool anyway.

The circle of dev life continues...

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