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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
Granola
AI-native alternative
AI notepad that turns your own meeting notes and transcripts into clean summaries, without a bot joining.
Fireflies
AI-native alternative
AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls across Zoom, Meet and Teams.
Mintlify
AI-native alternative
AI-native documentation sites that stay in sync with your code and answer readers with AI search.
Avoca
AI-native alternative
AI agents that answer calls, book jobs and follow up for home service and trades businesses.
Most activity this month
Adobe
#1+43 this month
From $19.99 /mo
List price · teams pay $840/yr (13 teams)
HubSpot
#2+39 this month
$20 – $150 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $23,750/yr (12 teams)
Salesforce
#3+38 this month
From $25 /user/mo
List price · teams pay $40,000/yr (8 teams)
Microsoft
#4+32 this month
$5,300 /yr
Median of 8 teams
QuickBooks
#5+26 this month
From $38 /mo
List price · teams pay $1,200/yr (13 teams)
#6+23 this month
Custom quote
List price · teams pay $1,000/yr (9 teams)
Webflow
#7+21 this month
From $15 /mo
List price · teams pay $752/yr (9 teams)
AWS
#8+21 this month
$9,250 /yr
Median of 8 teams
From teams who pay for it
Workday
“Workday restored its HR platform Saturday after an outage left employees at customer organizations unable to access pay, benefits and time-off services.”
9NEWS Denver · @9NEWS
GoDaddy
“Two years ago I bought a.ai domain on a crazy deal and registered it for 2 years. Yesterday GoDaddy's renewal email came in: around $350 to keep it.... I moved the domain from GoDaddy to Cloudflare and cut my renewal by more than half in about 10 minutes.”
Padmanabhan PK · @IamPadmanabhan
Shopify
Shopify is a solid platform. However it feels largely antiquated in it's approach to coding and updating for now. The apps and upgrades are mostly paid for the good ones, making it too expensive in an AI native world.
PandaDoc
“Claude blocked recreating SaaS tools because they felt like it violated their terms and service. For me, it stopped a build mid-build as I am trying to replace PandaDoc.”
Andrew Amann · @andrewamann
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
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October 2026· Final edition
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AI-native alternatives and builders listed, replacing 213 tools
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