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Re: Show HN: Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)

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Post by dylz » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:59 AM UTC

Bjarnee wrote: post #30

dylz wrote: post #29

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I'd also be interested in why some of your external scripts are (very badly and slowly) trying to fingerprint the browser and do persistent tracking. Your aiva thing is triggering "site is attempting to load adobe flash" notice bars. It also tries to spin up the GPU, ruining battery life. I am curious if you've actually tried all of these, or if you're just going with whatever offers affiliate money, because a decent…

I am not a programmer, so I tried to find a tool for email signups, and Aiva looked nice at the time. Guessing from your reply, it is bad in some way, so I have turned it off. I do not need it. As for the rest of your question, I have made it clearer in the text on the deal dashboard. I borrowed your text, hope you don't mind. My main idea is to find every single deal online that is labeled lifetime deal, and share i…

Personally, my belief is that a completely unvetted, uncurated list of links is not very useful. Maybe others may differ.

It would be more work but I would much rather look at a list of curated services that are also affiliate links that tell me why they are good and maybe a pros/cons/alternative-to-x table. If I am looking for a completely uncurated list I could go to stacksocial and search for the word lifetime. A short 1-2 sentences would at least tide me over as to what the product does.

It is less about the fooled, but more that quite a lot of that list is garbage software, the kind you see included in adware installers as trials - like the PDF converters, the lying VPN providers that won't actually last a lifetime, I'm trying to find a list of deals that specifically removes these.

Re: Show HN: Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)

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Post by Bjarnee » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:11 AM UTC

dylz wrote: post #31

Bjarnee wrote: post #30

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I am not a programmer, so I tried to find a tool for email signups, and Aiva looked nice at the time. Guessing from your reply, it is bad in some way, so I have turned it off. I do not need it. As for the rest of your question, I have made it clearer in the text on the deal dashboard. I borrowed your text, hope you don't mind. My main idea is to find every single deal online that is labeled lifetime deal, and share i…

Personally, my belief is that a completely unvetted, uncurated list of links is not very useful. Maybe others may differ. It would be more work but I would much rather look at a list of curated services that are also affiliate links that tell me why they are good and maybe a pros/cons/alternative-to-x table. If I am looking for a completely uncurated list I could go to stacksocial and search for the word lifetime. A…

I guess it comes down to a difference it what people look for. When I set about creating this site, it was because I like getting these deals and try out new software myself, but I found myself missing some of the best deals. So I set up alerts, signed up for lots of fb groups, and checked lots of sites, but it took a lot of time, and suddenly I hade made myself a dashboard. As it is right now, the site does what I personally like, it shows a list of ongoing lifetime deals from any source I can find, and one can get the same info in email alerts or rss subscribtion. Personally I hate comparison tables, because how can I know the person who made them has tested all tools compared and know them well enough to make a fair comparison. So I actually thought it more fair to just post the links. But these comments have given me some food for thought, so I think I need to make things clearer in writing on each page.

Re: Show HN: Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)

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Post by dylz » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:22 AM UTC

Bjarnee wrote: post #32

dylz wrote: post #31

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Personally, my belief is that a completely unvetted, uncurated list of links is not very useful. Maybe others may differ. It would be more work but I would much rather look at a list of curated services that are also affiliate links that tell me why they are good and maybe a pros/cons/alternative-to-x table. If I am looking for a completely uncurated list I could go to stacksocial and search for the word lifetime. A…

I guess it comes down to a difference it what people look for. When I set about creating this site, it was because I like getting these deals and try out new software myself, but I found myself missing some of the best deals. So I set up alerts, signed up for lots of fb groups, and checked lots of sites, but it took a lot of time, and suddenly I hade made myself a dashboard. As it is right now, the site does what I p…

Don't let me get you down. After all, look at what HN users said about Dropbox when it launched :)

As a dev I am sick of marketing bullshit and believe none of it, prefer spec sheets and seeing the code myself, competent engineer support, when I see a newsletter popup I immediately exit, when I see adblock telling me it's blocking a hundred things and also seeing stuff trying to run flash my first thought is malware. When I see "unlimited backup storage for life" my first thought is that bandwidth and power and cooling is a recurring cost and that unlimited doesn't exist.

I would assume a "normal user" would convert better to newsletter things (otherwise why would they keep getting used), social media liking and group chat (I block all like buttons, follow buttons, etc.), click through happily and upload 3 GB to their "unlimited backup" plan..

Re: Show HN: Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)

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Post by Bjarnee » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:35 AM UTC

jv22222 wrote: post #10

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I agree. I suck at marketing, so had someone come up with that, but I actually hate it myself, so will try to think of something else. I genuinely want to build something useful that will bring people to the site because it helps them rather that annoy them!

How about "No thanks, maybe later" or something like that :) Even "No thanks" is fine!

Thanks, but I removed the popup instead :-)

Re: Show HN: Lifetime SaaS Deals (tired of paying monthly for biz tools?)

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Post by Bjarnee » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

jcims wrote: post #27

Bjarnee wrote: post #26

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Thank you for that very thorough explanation. I had not thought about it that way. So thank you for the mind-opener of the day :-)

After I commented I read through some of the other replies and realize at this point it probably feels like folks are piling on this one relatively small issue. Sorry for that, but I do think it's a good sign that you're asking for (and getting haha) real feedback. I do wish you the best!

Thanks, I do try to create something useful, but I will make it less intrusive and spell out from A - Z what the purpose of the site is, and what it is not, so that I hopefully will not start world war 3