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Leave old software behind.
Anonymous reviews and real bills from teams fed up with SaaS, plus what they switched to.
Which business software buyers are most frustrated with this week.
Which SaaS Gets Dumped Next?Newest alternatives and builders
Surfaceable
AI-native alternative
Surfaceable is a technical SEO platform with AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Grok.
Flowtrix
Built for you
Flowtrix can manage the migration from planning and content restructuring through Webflow development, CMS implementation, integrations, SEO migration, redirect
Paxton
AI-native alternative
Paxton is an AI legal research assistant for US federal and state law, statutes, regulations and agency decisions.
Varick
Built for you
Varick's Agents get every new hire ready on day one.
Most activity this month
HubSpot
#1+38 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $23,750/yr (12 teams)
Adobe
#2+38 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (13 teams)
Salesforce
#3+36 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
Microsoft
#4+29 this month
$5,300 /yr
Median of 8 teams
QuickBooks
#5+25 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (13 teams)
#6+21 this month
Custom quote
List price · teams pay $1,000/yr (9 teams)
AWS
#7+21 this month
$9,250 /yr
Median of 8 teams
Webflow
#8+19 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
From teams who pay for it
Microsoft
As a person who grew up with Windows, I hate how they change all the menus in every single new release of Windows because someone decided that things must change for the sake of change. What was so wrong with Windows 2000? They could have modernized what was under the surface but kept the user interface! With Microsoft philosophy you get less productive. I knew much more on how to accomplish stuff under Windows 7 than I do under Windows 8 or Windows 11.
Microsoft
Down all day? Out entire company couldn't work.
GitHub
“PR reviews were becoming cost-prohibitive as we scaled up our software factory, so we built our own PR review agent using @agentrunai. It cut those costs by 80% using self-improvement!”
AJ Asver · @_aj
Shopify
“We decided to move off Shopify for Office Snack Boxes despite investing over $20k in the build less than a year ago. That's right, we threw away a perfectly good $20k website that was generating revenue because we see something better.”
Claude Burns · @OfficeByClaude
Shopify
“Paying every month for Shopify apps? I have helped ecommerce sellers replace paid Shopify apps with custom apps built around their businesses eliminating monthly app subscription fees and adding features designed to help them win more business. Pay once for the build. $0 monthly app subscription.”
Muhammad Abdullah · @abdullah_bhatt1
Procore
“Leaving Procore doesn't mean leaving your history. We import the project archive with you: directory, RFIs, submittals, drawings, logs, photos, punch, commitments, and change orders. Yes, even RFI 212.”
Joe · @joe_aosbuild
Teams that built their own
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 205 tools
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