Buy vs. build for web features

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Gone are the times when building a web application meant building everything ourselves. Error monitoring, authentication, and even full features like live video chat can be bought instead of built. These web features can just be popped into the frontend code without having to set up additional backends or databases. But we still write a lot of this code ourselves. Why?

Which features have you bought for web apps already? (please separate multiple names with commas or write "None") *

Why did you buy instead of building in that specific case? *

To release earlier

To save developer resources

To get ongoing support

I did not buy anything yet

Other:

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Please think about a situation where you built a new feature in house instead of buying it. What was it? *

Why did you decide against buying it? *

Didn't check whether I could have bought it

Could not find anything to buy

It was too cumbersome to try out the available options

None of the options I found fullfilled all my requirements

Could not get the budget approved

Other:

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Which frontend framework do you mainly use? *

React

Angular

VueJS

I don't do frontend

Other:

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What is Componently?

Componently is a new marketplace to find web features. You can find more at https://componently.com

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