We Replaced Calendly With a Custom Booking Page in 2 Hours
The Problem Calendly costs $8 to $12 per user per month. For a small team with two or three people who just need a simple way to let clients book a call, that is $300 or more per year for a tool that mostly sends you an email saying someone booked a slot. We asked: […]
Zapier vs Custom Automation: We Built It Both Ways and Here Is What We Found
The Setup We had a simple automation need: when a new row is added to a Google Sheet, send a formatted Slack message and log the entry to a database. Classic Zapier territory. We had been running it on Zapier Starter at $20/month. It worked. But we wanted to know what it would actually take […]
The SaaS Tools Most Small Teams Pay For But Barely Use
The Problem With the Modern SaaS Stack The average small team of five people carries a SaaS bill between $800 and $2,000 per month. Most of it is not one big tool — it is eight or ten tools at $15 to $30 each that nobody has audited since the credit card was put on […]
We Built a Simple CRM to Replace HubSpot Starter in One Afternoon
The Problem HubSpot Starter costs $20/month. For a small team managing a pipeline of 30 to 50 active deals, most of what HubSpot Starter does is: store contact records, track deal stages, and send a follow-up email reminder when a deal goes cold. We were not using the marketing automation, the ad attribution, or the […]
We Replaced Resend With a Custom Email System Built in 2 Hours
The Problem Resend costs $20/month. For many small teams, that is money spent on a tool they only partially use. We asked: can we rebuild the core functionality ourselves? What We Built A replacement for Resend using Python, Flask, and SMTP. The system handles transactional email delivery, basic template rendering, and send logging — covering […]