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Show HN: Track Freebies and Free Trials from Startups

23 points| tasteup | 10 years ago |onboarded.co | reply

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[+] anilgulecha|10 years ago|reply
Make an india section, and get a guaranteed surge of users. The amount of funding into local delivery startups has grown so much, everyone gets paid to signup. People signup once, use the offer, and uninstall the app. VC-funded groceries FTW :)

Seriously .. make an India section.

[+] walterbell|10 years ago|reply
How to stop the apps from extracting data from your phone, upon install/registration?
[+] tasteup|10 years ago|reply
Thanks for the suggestion! Adding location-based categorization is high on my to-do list.
[+] Animats|10 years ago|reply
The first one is always free.

Instacart costs $99 a year, and signing up for the $10 discount offer means signing up for the $99 fee. Note that the site does not disclose the annual cost.

Does "onboarded.com" get a kickback from the services they promote? If so, they're a paid advertiser, but are not disclosing that they are a paid advertiser.

The use of the word "Free" triggers the FTC rule on "Free", which means the full terms must be disclosed.[1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv...

[+] tasteup|10 years ago|reply
Hi Animats - Thanks for the technical analysis. We don't get any "kickback" or benefits from promoting services. In fact, we don't post specific referral codes or promo codes on the site. I created the site to track services I used in the past.

However, I understand the point you're trying to make. I'll definitely work on making it clear if a service is offering something for "free" and clarify the full terms of the wording.

[+] shiftb|10 years ago|reply
Instacart Express is an optional membership. You can use the $10 discount to get your groceries delivered without paying the $99/yr.
[+] kruk|10 years ago|reply
It would be extremely helpful if you added filtering by country. Most of these are only available in the U.S. and Canada.
[+] cyxxon|10 years ago|reply
Or changed the promotion values depending on country. I know Hello Fresh offers promotions in Germany (I have some of their promo cards in my living room, undecided if I want to try it out, and it is for €20 off, IIRC - I am at work at the moment). So the info they offer $40 off is kinda wrong for me...
[+] tasteup|10 years ago|reply
Hi Kruk! Thanks for checking out the site. Your feedback is very similar to @anilgulecha's suggestion to add India specific startups. I'll certainly prioritize categorizing startups by location.
[+] tasteup|10 years ago|reply
Just found out OnBoarded.co is on the front page of ProductHunt! I'm honored and infinitely thankful to the HN community (shout out to @kwdinc for hunting it)!
[+] tasteup|10 years ago|reply
Any feedback is welcome! I built this to track startups I've previously signed up for.