I Was Spending $800/Month on SaaS Tools I Forgot About. Here's How I Fixed It

This is embarrassing to admit, but a few months ago I noticed a $47 charge on my credit card from a tool I'd signed up for during a late-night debugging session. When I checked my other subscriptions... oh god. There were 16 active subscriptions I wasn't using. GitHub Copilot ($20), Vercel Pro ($20), Linear ($10), Figma team seat ($12), Supabase Pro ($25), three different AWS services I'd spun up for different projects... the list went on. I did some rough math and nearly fell out of my chair. I was paying roughly $800/month for tools I'd genuinely forgotten existed. Not because I'm reckless with money—I'm actually pretty careful—but because developers are uniquely vulnerable to subscription creep. We sign up for everything. Free trials are irresistible. And then we get busy shipping features and just... don't think about it again. Why Developers Are Especially Vulnerable Let me be specific about why our situation is different from the average person's subscription problem: Free trial