· Posted on X by Reilly Chase @rchase

Reilly Chase's two-week SaaS purge: Aircall, Intercom, Front, Shopify and more

Reilly Chase says his cost-cutting has reached $125,000 a year so far, and he's not done. In two weeks: Aircall swapped for Quo ($600 a month), Intercom moving to Crisp ($700 a month, with 48,000 tickets being migrated), Front swapped for Spark ($87), a paid SSH client dropped to its free tier ($324), a $60 social posting app replaced by his AI agent, a $250 payment-reminder tool swapped for Stripe's built-in emails, a $39 Shopify plan replaced by his own merch store, and $257 a month of unneeded Google Ads found. Not every kill was a rebuild, but it's a full clear.

Saving, as stated by the author: $125,000 a year so far, by his count

Every day I'm Grok Bot

From the time my eyes open to close

$125,000 PER YEAR so far

$625,000 over the next 5 years

Just in the last two weeks:

I've migrated our phone system from Aircall to Quo saving $600/month

I'm in the middle of migrating Intercom to Crisp to save $700/month, Grok Bot is migrating 7 years of ticket history over 48,000 tickets

Grok Bot leased my entire /22 on IPXO it's now making $400/month

Grok Bot discovered we didn't need the paid version of the SSH client we were using so we dropped down to the free tier saving $324/month

Today I'm replacing a $250/month tool that sends emails to customers who missed payments with Stripe's built-in email sequence

I migrated Front to Spark email client saving $87/month

I canceled a $60/month social media posting app now the team just uses Grok Bot and it posts to all networks at once in the web browser it has

I built my own store for HostiFi merch, replacing Shopify $39/month

It found a Google Ads account that I was paying $257/month for ads I didn't even need

Cut dozens of unused licenses

I'm not done yet

— Reilly Chase, read the original on X

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