Hunter Bohm cancelled 5 subscriptions in two weeks with Claude Code, about $134 a month
Five subscriptions down in two weeks, about $134 a month gone. Hunter Bohm swapped Granola for a meeting recorder that transcribes on their own Mac, Willow Voice for Lip Service, their own open-source dictation app, Beehiiv for Marc Lou's self-hosted MailCheap, ElevenLabs for free voice models on their own GPU with no monthly cap, and Microsoft email for Cloudflare forwarding to Gmail. Hunter also posts the bill for the fight: the recorder lost 2 real calls before it got fixed, and the newsletter app needed 3 security fixes before 4,289 readers could move onto it. Five tombstones, with honest notes on the battle.
Saving, as stated by the author: about $134 a month
cancelled 5 subscriptions in the last 2 weeks about $134 a month with claude code
- Granola -> my own meeting recorder, transcribes on my Mac ($14)
- Willow Voice -> Lip Service, my own dictation app, free and open source ($15)
- Beehiiv -> @marclou MailCheap, open source, self-hosted, Amazon charges per email sent ($109)
- ElevenLabs -> free voice models on my own GPU ($6 got me 30 minutes a month. now there's no cap) - actually insane results
- Microsoft email -> Cloudflare forwarding to Gmail ($10)what it cost:
my recorder lost 2 real calls before i fixed it
the newsletter app needed 3 security fixes before i'd move 4,289 readers onto it
— Hunter Bohm, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
- Federico Donatone replaced Wispr Flow, Superhuman, Notion, Granola and Calendly with Claude-built apps
- Paying Willow $15 a month for dictation, Hunter Bohm built a free, open-source Mac replacement
- Dan Vega on the Beehiiv debate: you only use a slice of the tools you pay for
- Deniz Sancar's update: 14 SaaS subscriptions replaced, about £4,200 a year saved
- Newsletter operators are fed up with Beehiiv's price hikes, says Travis Biziorek