Deniz Sancar's update: 14 SaaS subscriptions replaced, about £4,200 a year saved
Deniz Sancar is back with a body-count update. Over two weekends, 14 subscriptions have now been cancelled and replaced: GoHighLevel, Kit, Zoom, Loom, Calendly, Repurpose.io, Hyros, Lickd, ElevenLabs and iclosed from round one, plus Trello, DocuSign, Frame.io and Notion. Still standing: Claude Code, the Virlo API, Google Workspace and Cloudflare. The estimated saving rose to around £4,200 a year, with every tool replaced by an internal custom solution that he says fits his needs better. Wave two cleared, and the closing question got louder: maybe this really is the end for software?
Saving, as stated by the author: about £4,200 a year
A little update:
Over the past 2 weekends, I've cancelled monthly subscriptions for (and replaced):
- GoHighLevel
- Kit
- Zoom
- Loom (Atlassian)
- Calendly
- Repurpose io
- Hyros
- Lickd
- ElevenLabs
- iclosed
- Trello
- Docusign
- Frame(dot)io
- NotionAnd kept subscriptions at:
- Claude Code
- Virlo API
- Google Workspace
- CloudflareOverall I've now saved my business around £4200 per annum, 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 this really is the end for software?!?!?
— Deniz Sancar, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
- Hunter Bohm cancelled 5 subscriptions in two weeks with Claude Code, about $134 a month
- Federico Donatone replaced Wispr Flow, Superhuman, Notion, Granola and Calendly with Claude-built apps
- Ryan Duncan vibe-coded a Zoom webinars replacement and pushed $24k in sales in a week
- Calendly wouldn't sync two emails for free, so ZazenCodes built a scheduler from a phone
- Done paying for Notion and Obsidian, they built and open-sourced a notes app