Two kinds of post: what the market is doing, and what the commons is doing about it. Pricing figures are dated and cited to the page they came from, because they move — and because a figure repeated without a date eventually becomes a lie told in good faith.
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What the market charges for the software Pumasi is rebuilding, what the commons has shipped, and what it got wrong. Dated and cited.
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Why does sending a 500KB PDF cost $45 a month? The DocuSign tax and pure-edge stamping
DocuSign's own page prices Business Pro at $45/user/mo and meters 100 envelopes/user/yr. How pure TypeScript stamping and Cloudflare Durable Objects make contract execution an unmetered commodity.
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The per-seat tax on hiring hourly workers
Shift scheduling is billed per employee, so the bill rises with every hire whether or not scheduling changed. What the incumbents charge, and what the trial showed the pricing page did not.
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The six scheduling traps that catch AI coders (and how multi-model review caught them)
Scheduling looks simple until you hit timezones, DST boundaries, and concurrency. Here are the six subtle failure modes caught during the construction of Pumasi Booking.
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Why we show the seams: building in the open before the product is stable
Why we publish the open debts, list the limitations at the top of the page, and test on the pure engine first. Written at seed stage; Pumasi Booking is beta now, and a dated note says so.