{
  "id": 801432,
  "title": "SaaS or Custom Build? A Decision Checklist for Growing Teams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/saas-or-custom-build-a-decision-checklist-for-growing-teams",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T19:32:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/sheralifp/saas-or-custom-build-a-decision-checklist-for-growing-teams-kk2"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Every growing business runs on SaaS at some point. Sign up, pay per seat, ship this week. The tradeoff shows up around year three, when your workflow no longer matches the roadmap of a vendor serving 40,000 other companies. Here is the checklist we run with clients before anyone writes code. Five signals SaaS stopped fitting You pay per seat for read-only users. Half your licenses belong to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}