The $847/year Developer Tool Stack That Replaced My $4,200 SaaS Subscriptions

Two years ago I was paying for: Postman Teams ($180/yr) GitHub Copilot ($100/yr) Datadog ($600/yr) Sentry ($312/yr) LogRocket ($1,188/yr) Vercel Pro ($240/yr) Netlify Pro ($228/yr) CircleCI ($600/yr) New Relic ($720/yr) Total: ~$4,200/year Then I started replacing them with free alternatives and self-hosted tools. Here's what I ended up with. What I Replaced Postman → Hoppscotch (Free) Hoppscotch is open-source, runs in the browser, and does everything I used Postman for. Collections, environments, WebSocket testing — all there. For CLI testing, I use httpie or plain curl . No desktop app needed. Saved: $180/year GitHub Copilot → Cody + Continue.dev (Free) Sourcegraph Cody and Continue.dev both offer AI code completion using open models. Cody works with Claude, Continue works with local LLMs via Ollama. Neither is as polished as Copilot, but for 90% of autocomplete tasks, they're fine. Saved: $100/year Datadog → Grafana + Prometheus (Free, self-hosted) This was the biggest savings. Gra