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Alex Chen@alex_chen

Priya Kapoor · asked

How do you decide between building a feature vs buying a third-party tool?

If it's core to your product and you'll need to customize it heavily — build. If it's commodity infrastructure (auth, email, payments) — buy every time. Your eng hours are too expensive for solved problems.

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