Original Summary

I opened our expenses sheet and asked one question per line: what would it take to replace this today? Two years ago the honest answer was "months." That's why every SaaS line survived every review. Nobody wanted to own a migration. This year, for a few of them, the answer was days. Email: We run 5 products. They sent through 5 separate accounts on 2 providers, north of $2,000/month combined. Most of it was one account charging us for list size, on a list we mail once a month. We moved all five onto one setup we own. Our raw sending cost for the same volume is about $30/month. Search: A hosted search product indexing data that already lived in our database. Gone. The database does it. What surprised me was where the cost of switching actually lived. It was never the new tool. It was the migration: exporting data, rewiring integrations, the edge cases (bounces, unsubscribes, suppression lists that disagree between accounts), and the two weeks nobody on the team had. That's exactly the part AI eats now. Mapping one API onto another, writing the import scripts, finding every call site, writing the tests. Caveats, so this isn't a "cancel everything" post: - The $30 is our sending cost at our volume, not a promise that every email bill becomes $30. - Replacing a tool means you own it. Email has real ops (deliverability, bounces, compliance). Moving each product took days; building the thing we moved onto took weeks. - Some lines failed the test. If the vendor's value is ongoing work rather than software, keep paying. So: sort your expenses by cost. For each line ask, can I build this, or is there a cheaper option I dismissed because migrating felt like a project? There are more yeses than you think. Disclosure: the email part turned into a product. We opened what we moved onto to other teams as SendRaven ( https://sendraven.ai ). Happy to go deep on either migration in the comments.   submitted by   /u/dsternlicht [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/23 20:17:36