Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services • Hacker News Board

Aside from the books and subscriptions, seemed to me like a lot of trial accounts, basically. It feels more like buying a coupon book than getting anything tangible this time.

I rather like the idea of AppSumo, just this time I have a hard time seeing which of these are good deals. After going through them all one-by-one I still can't tell if it's worth a hundred bucks to the average startup.

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by geekfactor » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:29 PM UTC

I guess Noah needed to do something to make up for the long-form sales letter debacle. :-)

There are a hell of a lot of services here... What are your must-haves?

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by geekfactor » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:30 PM UTC

thorax wrote: post #4

Aside from the books and subscriptions, seemed to me like a lot of trial accounts, basically. It feels more like buying a coupon book than getting anything tangible this time. I rather like the idea of AppSumo, just this time I have a hard time seeing which of these are good deals. After going through them all one-by-one I still can't tell if it's worth a hundred bucks to the average startup.

I had that same feeling, and was not convinced it would be worth the time to research the true value.

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by noahkagan » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:32 PM UTC

zach wrote: post #3

Awesome, the return of the Lean Startup Bundle! Sold!

Only took us 5+ months to get this setup :)

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by zach » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:34 PM UTC

noahkagan wrote: post #7

zach wrote: post #3

Awesome, the return of the Lean Startup Bundle! Sold!

Only took us 5+ months to get this setup :)

I can see there was a lot of timing and coordination involved, though. Worth the wait!

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by noahkagan » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:34 PM UTC

thorax wrote: post #4

Aside from the books and subscriptions, seemed to me like a lot of trial accounts, basically. It feels more like buying a coupon book than getting anything tangible this time. I rather like the idea of AppSumo, just this time I have a hard time seeing which of these are good deals. After going through them all one-by-one I still can't tell if it's worth a hundred bucks to the average startup.

Fair point. My personal favorites are pivotal tracker ($100 credit), $50 for Twilio, $40 for Postmark and Geckoboard.

Re: Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services

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Post by jeremy1217 » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

thorax wrote: post #4

Aside from the books and subscriptions, seemed to me like a lot of trial accounts, basically. It feels more like buying a coupon book than getting anything tangible this time. I rather like the idea of AppSumo, just this time I have a hard time seeing which of these are good deals. After going through them all one-by-one I still can't tell if it's worth a hundred bucks to the average startup.

I got it early today, and it's more then just trail accounts, some are free for a few months, but there is a lot more value here. I totally thought it was worth it, but I'm going to be using most of this stuff for my startup anyways