Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?
We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack).
Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?
Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?
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.
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.
Also for commercial stuff, there’s obviously a cost of switching. For personal stuff there is as well but it’s generally close to 0.
For me, for example, I wouldn’t switch from Apple Music to something that cost a penny less and was a better experience or whatever. Same with 1pass. I like the solution I have well enough and both are cheap enough that it’s not worth thinking about how to export/import or whatever and then learn the new system.