One weekend, ten SaaS subscriptions cancelled, about £3,600 a year saved
Deniz Sancar went on a weekend rampage. GoHighLevel, Kit, Zoom, Loom, Calendly, Repurpose.io, Hyros, Lickd, ElevenLabs and iclosed were all cancelled and replaced with internal custom tools. The survivors: Claude Code, Virlo, Google Workspace and Cloudflare. He puts the saving at around £3,600 a year, for good, and says each replacement fits his needs better than the original did. Ten SaaS down in a single wave is a strong score. He ends with the question this whole game asks: maybe software really is dying?
Saving, as stated by the author: about £3,600 a year
This weekend, I cancelled monthly subscriptions for:
- GoHighLevel
- Kit
- Zoom
- Loom (Atlassian)
- Calendly
- Repurpose io
- Hyros
- Lickd
- ElevenLabs
- iclosedAnd kept subscriptions at:
- Claude Code
- Virlo
- Google Workspace
- CloudflareOverall I saved my business around £3600pa perpetually by switching to an internal custom solution of every tool I cancelled AND I actually made each one better suited to my needs,
Maybe software really is dying?!?!
— Deniz Sancar, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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