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    David Park

    David Park

    Small Business Owner

    The $500/Month I Got Back

    5 min read

    "I was paying $500/month in subscriptions. Now I pay $80. My business runs exactly the same."

    I run a small design agency. Five people. Good clients. Profitable—or so I thought.

    Then I did a subscription audit. Adobe Creative Cloud. Figma. Slack. Notion. Asana. Zoom. Calendly. Loom. Dropbox. The list went on.

    $500 per month. $6,000 per year. Just on software subscriptions.

    I was paying more for tools than I was paying my part-time assistant.

    So I got ruthless. Adobe? Switched to Affinity (one-time purchase). Figma? Kept it—actually essential. Slack? Back to email. Notion? Google Docs. Asana? A shared spreadsheet. Zoom? Google Meet (free). Calendly? Cal.com (free). Loom? Native screen recording. Dropbox? Google Drive.

    $500 became $80. And nothing broke.

    We still deliver great work. We still communicate effectively. We just do it without the subscription tax.

    That extra $420/month? It pays for the assistant now. A human being instead of software. Revolutionary concept.

    David Park

    About the Author

    David Park

    Small Business Owner

    David runs a small design agency. After auditing his subscriptions, he realized he was spending more on software than on his assistant. That's when things changed.

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