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Heads up if you're looking at office space in Midtown right now
I was setting up my new app dev shop and had to pick between a cheap spot in an old building on Cass with no fiber and a pricier, newer place on Woodward. The old place was about $800 a month less, which was a huge deal for my startup budget. But after talking to three other tech founders who'd been in that building, they all said the internet was a constant problem, with drops during client calls. I went with the Woodward spot, and yeah, my rent is higher, but I haven't lost a single minute of uptime in six months. That reliability has already saved two client deals where we needed solid video demos. Has anyone else faced a similar choice with infrastructure versus cost, and how did you work it out?
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the_max3d ago
My buddy tried the cheap route for his remote support gig, saved like a grand a month on rent. He spent that entire first year buying everyone coffee shop gift cards so he could go work there every time his building's wifi took a nap. The math definitely did not work out in his favor.
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sagecooper3d ago
That's like a thousand bucks in coffee cards just for wifi.
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hugos463d ago
Why do we always pay extra to fix cheap stuff?
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