Web 1.0 was pages. You read them. Static HTML, hyperlinks, that was it.
Web 2.0 was apps. You logged in. Every app wanted your $20/mo, your seat license, your data locked in their cloud.
Web 3.0 should be modules. You don't buy the app. You don't even rent it. You pay per call, from any frontend — yours, mine, anyone's. The module is a utility, like water. You open the tap, you pay for what you use.
That's MeterCall. 2,866 SaaS products indexed, each with a pay-per-call module replacement. Use them as-is. Or fork one, personalize it, ship your own.
Linden Terminal — a Bloomberg Terminal replacement we built on MeterCall.
- Bloomberg: $24,000/yr per seat. Locked to their hardware. Locked to their data feeds.
- Linden: ~$400/yr. Browser-native. Same core workflows — watchlists, news, charts, options chains, alerts.
It's the same playbook applied 2,865 more times. HubSpot. Salesforce. Datadog. Notion. Figma. Intercom. Zendesk. Every seat-tax SaaS has a module that does the work for pennies per call.
- 70% to builders. You write a module, you earn every time it's called. Forever. No revenue-share lawyer traps, no clawback, no "platform fee" that grows every quarter.
- 30% to QA. Someone keeps the modules green, tests the edge cases, patches when an upstream API moves. They get paid too.
- 0% to platform. I don't tax your usage. The toll is the rail itself — the payment rails, the auth, the billing, the metering. Not a cut of what you make.
Compare that to the App Store's 30%. Or Salesforce's marketplace where you pay to list, pay to feature, and pay again on every dollar.
To seed the ecosystem, we're running a $100K contest for the best modules shipped in the first 30 days. Categories: best Bloomberg replacement, best CRM, best dev-tool, best "I can't believe this is only $X/call." Ship a module, win cash, keep the 70% revenue share on top.
Details: https://metercall.ai/contest.html
This is a beta launch. Real infrastructure, live modules, real money moving through the rails today — but early. Things will break. APIs will change. Modules will need patches.
That's exactly why we need builders and operators right now, while the ground is still soft and the top slots are still open.
- Module index: https://github.com/patl4588/awesome-saas-replacements
- Try the planner:
curl -sS https://metercall-builder.fly.dev/api/plan -d '{"prompt":"build me a CRM"}' - Feedback / bugs / ideas: https://github.com/patl4588/metercall-site/issues
- Workspace (plan + build in-browser): https://metercall.ai/workspace.html
If you've ever looked at a SaaS invoice and thought "this should be a utility bill, not a mortgage" — this is that. Come build.
— Pat