
I replaced 4 SaaS tools with one workspace. Here's what actually happened.
So about 8 months ago I got fed up. Our team of 6 was paying for Jira, Notion, Slack (premium), and some random bug tracker I can't even remember the name of. Total monthly bill was somewhere around $380. Not insane money, but the real cost wasn't the subscriptions. The real cost was context switching. The tab hell problem Here's what a typical morning looked like: open Jira to check sprint status, switch to Notion to read the spec, hop to Slack because someone pinged about a blocker, back to Jira to update the ticket, then realize the spec in Notion is outdated because someone updated it in a Google Doc instead. Sound familiar? Yeah. I counted one day and I had 23 tabs open across 4 different tools, all for the same project. My brain was spending more energy remembering where stuff lived than actually doing the work. What I actually wanted I wrote down what our team actually needed: Kanban boards (not the overly complex Jira kind, just cards in columns) A wiki/docs space that lives ne
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