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stevenicr 1 days ago [-]
Hubspot - saying this because one of the teams I work with is sold on what it supposed to do, and it sucks at doing those things.
Specifically the ads hub or whatever they call the section that is supposed to help with ads reporting.
I've already built 2 replacements for it.
They were so sold on the hubspot promise they dedicated a significant amount of time and money to try to make the thing do what they expected, and then consulted with 3 software dev companies to build out what was needed to make it work.
Once they saw the $30,000 price, months of custom dev work, plus what is the enterprise level thing now? $7k or $8k per month - and this is shimming.. they paused finally.
Funny thing is the new canvas in google sheets did 99% of what was wanted, did it in 30 minutes, and it's $30.
Build a replacement for looker studio, exact same issues.
Although Cody might have done that with Graphed - I have not jumped in to test it yet.
iliedanila 3 hours ago [-]
Youtube, Google Maps, Acrobat
nifragos 14 hours ago [-]
I would definetly swap Slack for Discord. In a company i was working for we had discord and it was super fun with all that easy to embed memes. How much we got doen, is another story though
dansf 1 days ago [-]
I don't know if this is actually an issue with Forma, but I hate how I have to use my corporate login (and thus corporate device) to be able to file expenses. But Forma is still better than we used before (I forgot their name but their UI was horrible).
w0de0 2 days ago [-]
Presumably all of them, as this is the simple definition of “better.”
Ah, literate humanity, I’ll miss you in my dotage.
HenryBemis 2 days ago [-]
From Deezer to Spotify many years ago
From Opera to Firefox many many years ago
From Winzip to WinRar many many years ago
From Gemini to ChatGPT a couple of years ago
I wish there was an alternative to Carbonite (unlimited storage, my encryption) that doesn't hide the VAT until the checkout so they don't trick on the pricing (for us Europeans)
dieselgate 2 days ago [-]
Switched from Spotify to Deezer. I prefer Slack to alternatives, Teams is miserable.
mtVessel 2 days ago [-]
I would replace Teams in a heartbeat. It's not about availability, it's about license structure and bundling.
toomuchtodo 2 days ago [-]
I would replace them with an open source solution if at all possible. Replacing a vendor with yet another vendor is a waste if I run into the same problems of a vendor controlling the solution. It's all companies chasing moats and cashflow to build value for their shareholders or to sell to private equity. Is one vendor better than another? Maybe, for a while, but it never lasts.
Through LLM tokens we work towards digital sovereignty. The goal is to have someone else host it as cost efficiently as possible, with an exit path always available to self hosting if needed.
i prefer soundcloud i have switched to it a while ago its better and free as well as you tend to get more freedom exploring content from new artist more slack is pretty good already so wont prefer swaping it
sejje 2 days ago [-]
inference providers
spotify for sure, working on that
kinda anything. why wouldn't i switch if there's something better?
i have that kind of brand loyalty with local small shops maybe, where there's a relationship. but not corporate online brands.
2 days ago [-]
carlosjobim 2 days ago [-]
Any of them of course. Why wouldn't you swap to a better option?
paulcole 2 days ago [-]
They didn’t say the better option’s price. Or how much better it was.
Gmail + all the Google shit I get for $16/user/month + the hassle of switching would be very hard to get me to move away from for something that is anything but monumentally better. Even then I’d be super skeptical. Google is good enough and I probably wouldn’t switch.
carlosjobim 1 days ago [-]
I assume value was included in the definition of "better".
paulcole 12 hours ago [-]
Are you assuming cost of switching is included in the definition of “better”?
carlosjobim 9 hours ago [-]
There really is no cost of switching. The only thing is that we might not be bothered to switch to something better if we're already very happy with what we have. I think all of us are like that.
faangguyindia 2 days ago [-]
Cronometer
MyFinessPal
dasefx 2 days ago [-]
Adobe
carlosjobim 1 days ago [-]
Affinity is a great option. I haven't regretted switching.
Specifically the ads hub or whatever they call the section that is supposed to help with ads reporting.
I've already built 2 replacements for it.
They were so sold on the hubspot promise they dedicated a significant amount of time and money to try to make the thing do what they expected, and then consulted with 3 software dev companies to build out what was needed to make it work.
Once they saw the $30,000 price, months of custom dev work, plus what is the enterprise level thing now? $7k or $8k per month - and this is shimming.. they paused finally.
Funny thing is the new canvas in google sheets did 99% of what was wanted, did it in 30 minutes, and it's $30.
Build a replacement for looker studio, exact same issues.
Although Cody might have done that with Graphed - I have not jumped in to test it yet.
Ah, literate humanity, I’ll miss you in my dotage.
I wish there was an alternative to Carbonite (unlimited storage, my encryption) that doesn't hide the VAT until the checkout so they don't trick on the pricing (for us Europeans)
Through LLM tokens we work towards digital sovereignty. The goal is to have someone else host it as cost efficiently as possible, with an exit path always available to self hosting if needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
spotify for sure, working on that
kinda anything. why wouldn't i switch if there's something better?
i have that kind of brand loyalty with local small shops maybe, where there's a relationship. but not corporate online brands.
Gmail + all the Google shit I get for $16/user/month + the hassle of switching would be very hard to get me to move away from for something that is anything but monumentally better. Even then I’d be super skeptical. Google is good enough and I probably wouldn’t switch.