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Lately I’ve been wondering how people handle the moment when their small team suddenly realizes it’s paying for way too many online tools. We recently looked through our stack and found several services nobody had touched for months, yet we were still charged every billing cycle. It made me think about how chaotic it gets when everyone signs up for something “just for a week” and then forgets about it. How do you keep everything under control without turning into some sort of subscription police?
I’ve run into that same kind of chaos when our team expanded faster than expected, and we ended up with overlapping tools that nobody remembered approving. What helped us was checking each service’s usage stats and grouping everything by purpose, so we could decide what to keep or drop. If you want to get a clearer view of all your tools in one place, this link might help: https://www.spendbase.co/. It’s just something I used when I felt buried under too many dashboards and logins, and it saved us a lot of time when figuring out which services actually mattered.
Funny enough, I’m not directly involved in managing online tools in my company, but I’ve seen coworkers argue over which apps the team “really needs.” From the side, it looks like everyone has a favorite platform they refuse to drop, even if it overlaps with another one. I guess it’s a pretty common thing in modern workplaces, where every task seems to require yet another subscription. It’s interesting to read how others tackle the confusion.
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