Get The Payback Stack
The companion guide to the video. The ledger: $379.97/month = $4,559.64 a year across the ten bills — and even without the $200 agent at #1, the other nine total $179.97/month, $2,159.64 a year. THE TEN (ranked by the size of the bill each kills): Excalidraw (129.7k stars) kills Miro Starter ($8/mo), Immich (110.6k, a FUTO project) kills the Google AI Plus 2TB storage plan ($9.99/mo — the plan formerly called Google One 2TB), Harper (Automattic) kills Grammarly Pro ($12/mo, checks on-device), Frigate kills Ring Protect Pro ($19.99/mo) or Google Home Premium (ex-Nest Aware), OpenCut (83.4k stars, 'the open-source CapCut alternative') kills CapCut Pro ($19.99/mo — the annual plan jumped $77 to $179.99 this year), Chatterbox (Resemble AI, MIT) kills ElevenLabs Creator ($22/mo), Podman (CNCF) kills Docker Desktop Business ($24/user/mo), PocketBase (one executable file = the whole backend) kills Supabase Pro ($25/mo), Continue (3.92M VS Code installs) kills Copilot Pro+ ($39/mo — and Copilot's new Max tier is $100/mo), and OpenHands (84.1k stars, peer-reviewed platform paper) kills Devin Max ($200/mo — Devin launched at $500). Every card carries stars, license, the exact install command, one verifiable receipt, the honest catch, and a USE IT IF / JUST PAY IF decision rule. Plus: the 2026 villain-rename decoder (Google One 2TB is now 'Google AI Plus (2 TB)', Nest Aware is now Google Home Premium, Ring plans are back to Ring Protect), a lightning round (Karakeep, Docmost, Typst, Waveterm, Wallos — the self-hosted subscription tracker to run first), a print-this symptom-to-command recap page, and the honest 'When you should just pay' page — irreplaceable data, downtime, quality gaps, teams, and bills you should simply delete. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs.
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