unstack.it
An article-then-side-project about cutting SaaS spend — and crowdsourcing which tools companies quietly cancel first.
unstack.it started as an itch, not a product. The SaaS world took a visible hit on the markets — a lot of software companies repriced more or less overnight — and it made me look at our own stack and ask the obvious question: how much of this do we still actually need?
The honest answer is: probably less than we pay for. A small company quietly accumulates a long, expensive list of subscriptions, and a lot of them are now things you could rebuild in a weekend or swap for something cheaper and good enough. Some of it is genuinely sticky — systems of record, the ATS, the PMS, banking — and some is just good and cheap and not worth touching. But the middle is bigger than anyone wants to admit.
So step one is an article: a clear-eyed map of a typical SaaS company's stack, what's safe, and where the early, painless savings are. Step two — if the article has legs — is the site the domain is for: a place where people log what they unstacked, what it saved them, and what they replaced it with. Do that at any scale and you get something genuinely interesting: a live trendline of which tools are getting cancelled first. Not predictions — receipts.
None of it is built yet. Right now it's a domain, a thesis, and a growing pile of notes. But it's the idea I keep coming back to.
