Noah Kagan cancels Zapier after 10 years: $4,788 a year to $0
Another one bites the dust in Noah Kagan's War on Expensive Software, and this time it's Zapier, a tool his team used for 10 years. The audit was brutal: they paid for 123 automations, 63 hadn't run in a month, and two did 88% of the work. Claude rebuilt one of them, and everything else moved into tools they already pay for. Zapier went from $4,788 a year to $0, and he shared the audit prompt so you can run it on your own account. Most of that army were zombies already. Nobody had put them down.
Saving, as stated by the author: $4,788 a year
Another one bites the dust in our War on Expensive Software. 😵
Zapier.
An old friend. We’ve used it for 10 years.
We paid for 123 automations. 63 hadn’t run in a month. 2 did 88% of the work.
The rest was form-to-Slack and HubSpot-to-Sheets plumbing.
Claude rebuilt 1 of them. Everything else moved into tools we already pay for.
Zapier: $4,788 a year → $0.
Steal the audit. Export your Zapier task history and give Claude or ChatGPT this:
“List every automation, its owner, and runs in the last 30 days. Flag anything that hasn’t run. Show which few do most of the work. For each one, name a tool we already pay for that could replace it. Give me a cancel plan with dates.”
Bye bye, old friend. 👋
— Noah Kagan, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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