| 2026-09-14 | Removed SparkPost, which rolled into Postmark. Replaced Cursor and OpenAI with Anthropic.
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| 2026-09-11 | Seline went from $34 to $59/mo.
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| 2026-09-08 | Dropped HAProxy, Localias, and Overmind; local development now runs on mprocs and Portless, and edge routing runs on our own Cloudflare Worker. Also ended our paid Spamhaus subscription — we still use the free public blocklists.
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| 2026-09-07 | Dropped our team CleanShot subscription; screenshot hosting now runs off our own internal-files tooling.
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| 2026-09-05 | Removed Proximo, which we no longer used.
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| 2026-08-26 | Stopped using Cleantalk for signup spam detection.
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| 2026-07-01 | Planetscale went from $1,400 to $1,000/mo.
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| 2026-06-19 | Removed UptimeRobot — TLS monitoring now run off our in-house checker framework.
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| 2026-06-12 | Added ClickHouse ($5/mo) for archival storage.
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| 2026-06-05 | Added UptimeRobot (Solo plan) for uptime monitoring.
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| 2026-06-05 | Sentry went from $100 to $250/mo.
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| 2026-06-04 | Pruned tools we no longer use: GitHub Actions, Hetzner, Mono Lisa, Things, and Timing.
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| 2026-06-02 | Removed Goto — still a great tool, but we've replaced it with individual usage. Also dropped Sender Score, which never gave us useful feedback.
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| 2026-05-22 | Removed Redis Enterprise Cloud; caching and rate limiting now run off Postgres.
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| 2026-05-17 | Moved Pulumi Cloud back to a paid plan ($40/mo).
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| 2026-05-14 | Stopped using Blacksmith for CI; moved all GitHub Actions workflows to self-hosted runners.
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| 2026-04-15 | Removed Sendgrid ($40/mo).
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| 2026-04-05 | Added Goto for go links (free).
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| 2026-04-03 | Added Proximo ($5/mo) for outbound HTTP proxying.
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| 2026-04-02 | Mailgun went from $20 to $600/mo.
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| 2026-03-30 | Cut Vercel from $240 to $40/mo.
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| 2026-03-29 | Gusto dropped from $200 to $130/mo. Tuple, Cleantalk, and Seline went up to $120, $70, and $34/mo.
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| 2026-03-26 | Cut Heroku from $2,100 to $1,200/mo, Blacksmith from $275 to $125/mo, Sentry from $185 to $100/mo, and Redis Enterprise Cloud from $250 to $25/mo.
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| 2026-03-25 | Stopped using Obsidian; internal docs now run on our own viewer app.
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| 2026-03-21 | Removed Anymail in favor of bespoke SMTP backends. We've moved sufficiently far away from it that it no longer makes sense, but we'd still recommend it.
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| 2026-03-21 | Added disposable-email-domains to the stack; donating $10/mo.
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| 2026-03-21 | Added Timing ($14/mo) for time tracking.
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| 2026-03-19 | Churned from S3 in favor of Cloudflare R2.
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| 2026-03-18 | Churned from Better Stack in favor of using Sentry's logging + uptime monitoring.
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| 2026-03-04 | Downgraded Pulumi Cloud from paid to free tier.
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| 2026-03-01 | Churned from Better Stack to incident.io for incident management.
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| 2026-02-20 | Stopped using Tailscale. Great service, we just didn't need it.
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| 2026-02-16 | Stopped using HEX for data notebooks.
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| 2026-02-13 | Added Obsidian for internal documentation.
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| 2026-01-31 | Stopped using DNSimple for DNS management.
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| 2026-01-25 | Stopped using ImprovMX for email forwarding.
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| 2026-01-22 | Migrated from Amazon RDS to Planetscale. Removed Iframely and Granola.
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| 2025-12-26 | Replaced Vista Social with Buffer for social media management.
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| 2025-12-23 | Replaced Vercel Analytics with Seline for website analytics.
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| 2025-12-19 | Added StopForumSpam for spam detection (free!).
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| 2025-12-04 | Removed Vista Social, Quickbooks, and Valtown from the stack.
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| 2025-12-01 | Stopped using Mimestream for email.
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| 2025-11-24 | Stopped using Groove for customer support.
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| 2025-11-01 | Added Pulumi for infrastructure as code.
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| 2025-10-21 | Added Have I Been Pwned for breach detection (removed 2026-04).
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| 2025-08-01 | Added Bunny (DNS), CleanShot (screenshots), Granola (notetaking), and Sendgrid (SMTP) over the summer.
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| 2025-05-14 | Started using Vista Social to manage social media accounts and Tailscale to manage the server storing internal docs. Stopped using Trotto (in favor of Tailscale's own OSS version).
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| 2025-04-01 | Replaced Depot with Blacksmith (faster, cheaper)
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| 2024-07-10 | Started using Depot to speed up GitHub Actions
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| 2024-07-09 | Started using Fivetran and Metabase to analyze data and construct a (janky, but useful!) WBR
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| 2024-04-03 | Started using Mercury as a banking solution
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| 2024-03-28 | Added Pika, Cloudflare, and a handful of other tools; churned from Texts, Sketch, Bear, and Imgix.
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| 2024-03-14 | Added Audiogest to the stack. It's a nice little tool!
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| 2023-10-13 | Had to bump up my Imgix plan from $75 to $200/mo because of traffic. Time to find something cheaper!
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| 2023-08-22 | |
| 2023-08-01 | Add PopSQL (which technically I've been using for a while but forgot about)
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| 2023-07-25 | Migrated off of Heroku Redis and onto Redis Enterprise Cloud, which means saving $70/mo for five minutes of switching environment variables.
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| 2023-07-24 | |
| 2023-07-23 | Purchased a reserved instance for my big ol' RDS database, saving $110/mo.
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| 2023-07-20 | Initial launch of this page.
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