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I Replaced GitHub + Jira + Vercel + PlanetScale + Datadog With One Free Platform
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I Replaced GitHub + Jira + Vercel + PlanetScale + Datadog With One Free Platform

via Dev.toJorge Peraza

Every month I was paying for five tools that didn't talk to each other. GitHub for code ($20/mo for the team). Jira for tasks ($8/user/mo). Vercel for some deploys ($20/user/mo). A database host ($40/mo). Datadog for monitoring ($75/mo). Plus the Slack tax of context-switching between all of them 50 times a day. Total: ~$400/month. Five logins. Five billing dashboards. Five permission systems. Zero integration between them. When someone on my team merged a PR, I had to: Check GitHub to see the diff Switch to Jira to update the ticket Switch to Vercel to see if the deploy succeeded Switch to Datadog to check if metrics look healthy Go back to Jira to move the ticket to Done That's five context switches for one merge. Multiply by 10 merges a day. That's 50 tab switches. Research says each context switch costs 20-30 minutes of deep focus. We were bleeding productivity. So I Built One Platform I'm a developer. The answer was obvious: build one tool that does all of it. MonkeysCloud is what

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