Community Challenge: Save $100 per Month!
I shared this tweet and I wanted to make sure that my friends here on Indie Hackers also take time, especially at the beginning and ending of each month, to review your finances and operating expenses.
A fun and somewhat arbitrary goal, every month, is to see if I can find at least $100.00 in monthly savings. Most times, I can't seem to get there but the intentional exercise is the point, not the actual cost-savings.
This month is easy as I'm cutting out a big service that no longer is necessary for our now-small-er-ish operation (we were, at one time, 19 folks!):
So, I want to pose this CHALLENGE to our amazing IH community:
How much money can you save your business next month?!
Let us know what services you're replacing or getting rid of! I'd love to know what alternatives you've chosen, etc!
DONE:
Really cool challenge John! If anyone is willing to switch from using Slack, Trello, and Zoom to https://www.simpletasking.com, I will make their pro accounts free for life.
How is that for saving money!
whoa! what an offer! upvoted!
An idea! We could make a list of products and the respective Indi replacements (and related savings). A bit like small organic farms vs corporations.
I love this idea!
Great, we could start with a spreadsheet. Maybe someone could actually turn it into a business by monetizing affiliate commissions of users switching to indie products.
let's see if someone does!
upvoted
:)
One of the easiest things I did to save was to switch to GitHub free, and consolidate lots of Digital Ocean droplets using Terraform. Don't need to manage as many snowflake instances anymore.
sweet! taking a look.
This month it's an easy one... Ahrefs. I don't need it every single month because I tend to do SEO maintenance/campaigns intermittenly. That's a $99/mo charge that just isn't necessary more than a few months per year.
I hear you. I think that's true for similar other marketing & SEO tools too. SEMRush, sure.
yo. save that money!
I've clearly gone first:
I'm removing
Dropbox Businessand saving my business$450 per year(~$37.50 per month)!I'm not replacing it with anything and instead using my current (personal) Dropbox account for files.
Worth noting: At the right time I can see myself moving back to this service.
i wanted to close the loop here on this...
i wrote a much larger post on this:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/audit-your-montly-paid-services-a-good-business-counts-all-the-pennies-19b411a122
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i'm digging that.