When did your SaaS stack become more of a distraction than a help?
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There is a strange trap early stage startups fall into where every minor workflow gap gets fixed by adding another monthly subscription.
We have barely a handful of people on board yet our stack covers nearly a dozen separate apps many of which share overlapping features.
Half the time we spend more energy integrating these tools and handling billing than focusing on the product itself. For small teams here how do you decide when it is time to ruthlessly prune your software list?
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I'd list every tool with what it costs and the last time anyone actually opened it. anything nobody touched in 30 days goes, and if you're paying for a zap just to copy data between two apps, that's usually a sign they should be one. for us it was data, sequencing, linkedin and a crm all stitched together, which is a big part of why I ended up building Grow with Ghost to put them in one place (I'm the founder, so biased). which eats more of your time, the integrations or the billing admin?