Show HN: Instantly view your team's SaaS usage across 2,500 tools
hapstack.comI needed a fast, simple way to uncover what SaaS tools my team was using (or not using), notify me of new tools that folks start to use, and map our stack without chasing people down. Not only were were wasting money on underused seats and tools but tracking all of it was too hard.
Most existing "SaaS management" tools felt like giant platforms that do many things, built for enterprise, and cost a ton. I just wanted a self-service that focused on usage to uncover all our tools. Fast. And nice to look at.
So I made Hapstack — a free browser extension that shows you:
- All the tools your team is using, by person
- Usage over time (so you can spot waste)
- Newly discovered tools as they show up
- A clean view of your whole SaaS stack, automatically
It’s built on Google Workspace. Takes 2-3 minutes to deploy and reveals up to 6 months of data immediately.
I'd love any feedback on the idea, setup experience, or use cases.
This sounds amazing, and a bit scary - how does it obtain the info it needs?
Thanks! Whenever a user visits a web page, we check (locally) to see if that url is present in our database of verified SaaS app urls. If there is, we record a session. If not, we don't do anything. So no url or browsing activity is ever sent to our servers unless our extension has already determined that a match has been found in our database of apps.
So at a higher level it sounds like you use the google workspace to distribute a browser extension to everyone in the workspace without their awareness, and the you monitor all sites they visit, recording only those sites that match your SaaS candidates list.
That's right. You have flexibility over who gets the extension (e.g. distribute to the whole org, or only specific org units/people). It is essentially providing unified usage reporting across all your SaaS. Some tools provide transparent usage reporting, some don't.
How would you quantify the value gained from this tracking versus the value of user privacy and trust that may be lost?
I'm not sure yet. Just wanted to make it free/affordable to begin with and test out this model. Certainly the market may prefer a simple paid subscription (free up to X users, then $x/user after that). I understand the perception of 'tracking' and am trying to make it clear how it works w/ the PP up and easy to understand.