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I Replaced 5 Apps with One AI Agent (Here's How)
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I Replaced 5 Apps with One AI Agent (Here's How)

via Dev.to Tutorialtechfind7771mo ago

Last month I cancelled Notion, Todoist, Grammarly, a scheduling app, and a research tool. I replaced all five with a single AI agent running on a $6/month server. Here's exactly what I did, and how you can too. The Apps I Killed App Cost/mo What It Did Notion $10 Notes, docs, project tracking Todoist $5 Task management Grammarly $12 Writing assistance Calendly $10 Scheduling Perplexity $20 Research Total $57/mo The Replacement: One AI Agent I set up an AI agent using OpenClaw (open-source) on a cheap VPS. Total cost: $6/month for the server + ~$10/month for the AI API. $16/month instead of $57. That's $492/year saved. But the real win isn't the money — it's having ONE interface for everything. How Each App Got Replaced Notion → Agent Memory My agent has a MEMORY.md file. I tell it things, it remembers. I ask it things, it recalls. No more organizing pages, databases, or templates. I just talk to it. "Remember that the client meeting is Thursday and they want the API docs updated." Done

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