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Wed, Oct 14, 2026
Claude Code

Ten SaaS tools replaced, £3,600 saved

A business owner who builds AI systems says he spent a weekend cancelling ten monthly SaaS subscriptions and replacing each with an internal custom build made with Claude Code, keeping Claude Code and a few infrastructure tools. He says each replacement fits his needs better than the tool it replaced.

How it wentHe claims a saving of about £3,600 per year, ongoing, from the cancelled subscriptions. The figure is his own and is not independently verified.
Try it · based on the source's workflow
List the software tools [business name] uses, grouped by the job each one does for us. For tools that do one simple job, tell me whether a small internal replacement could do that same job, and outline what building it would involve. Show me the list and your proposals first. Do not cancel, change, or build anything until I approve.
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