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Show HN: Manage your cost of app subscriptions in one place
- spking 9y agoThis looks pretty neat, like OneLogin and TrueBill combined into one app?
- leandrothomas 9y agoThank you, I like that analogy! Any feedback or comments, let me know.
- abra_kadabra 9y agoGreat idea. Your page has a really nice design, it's easy to tell what your product is and the value proposition. Also I had a look through your blog, I saw that your marketing checklist included Product Hunt, Hacker News, and Reddit, do you have any plans after those?
- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks for your valuable feedback! We'll see how it goes with these channels, but generally we plan on reaching out to our target companies directly (tech SMEs). We'll also get in touch with our existing networks, who displayed interest before.
- abra_kadabra 9y agoThat makes sense to me. Are you planning on doing any Google advertising or Facebook advertising? I ask because I'm hoping to launch my own SAAS in the next month, and am trying to figure out what works for connecting to the developer community.
- leandrothomas 9y agoDue to limited budget, we're not doing that right now. We're just staying active in communities such as Indie Hackers and Product Hunt, plus reaching out to target audience manually. Beyond that we'll double down on listening to existing people who signed up, gather feedback and execute on relevant stuff, to make it as useful as possible. Knock on effect should be fair amount of word of mouth... we'll see.
- jpster 9y agoMight be helpful to check out how New Relic and Docker did it. https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/new-relics-growth-playbook-from-startup-to-ipo https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/new-relics-growth-p... https://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/docker-growth-hacking-presentation-at-ubi-io-san-francisco https://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/docker-growth-hac...
- leandrothomas 9y agoThank you, I'll check those out!
- abra_kadabra 9y agoThanks! I'll definitely have a look at these.
- pamelabuck 9y agoLove it. I can see this being useful once you are up to 10 or more subscriptions.
- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks! For sure, can be hard to keep track after that number.
- vmarquet 9y agoJust curious, does it list itself in the list of app subscriptions? :) Anyway, great product!
- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks! Very meta, we haven't thought about it.. probably should add it if people request it.
- troyxmccall 9y agolove this concept, could even find myself using it for personal use if it had other popular web subscriptions, ie: netflix, hulu, feedly, spotify, etc
- leandrothomas 9y agoThank you for your comment! Interesting thought.. if many more think the same as you, could be a possibility to add those too.
- johnwaynedoe 9y agoI would love that kind of support. I initially thought that was what you were providing, and I was rather excited. My subscriptions have become an unmanageable beast.
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- leandrothomas 9y agoHi there, we support this now! Check it out..
- astrocat 9y agoAs just one guy, I have subscriptions/billing/licences for a ton of things: Adobe CC, Jetbrains, Sketch, AWS, GCP, DO, Deploybot, Dropbox, Arq, Shopify and others in addition to all the more "personal" stuff like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Pandora, Canary... I get why this is aimed at SME teams, but even one-man-teams/freelancers would find this super handy. I got excited and signed up only to realize of the 11 apps available for integration, none were ones I used individually...
- leandrothomas 9y agoOk.. some food for thought. Thanks for your feedback!
- xzel 9y agoLooks great. UI looks top notch and I agree this is something I might want for personal use. I interviewed at a start up in NYC looking to do something almost identical about 6 months ago, just FYI for competition sake. I looked you guys up on angellist so I know you aren't them. Cheers.
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- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks for commenting, I appreciate your feedback. I know of some others that are operating in the same space, but not really that many. There's room for everybody with their own interpretation of solving this problem. Really thinking about this for personal use now, based on these comments..
- akassover 9y agoGreat idea, but I get spooked easily. I signed up, figured I'd add GitHub, saw "This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights," and ran away.
- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks for you feedback. I get it, we had a few people say this. We're working on limiting what GitHub can do, whilst retaining usefulness. Despite the admin rights, we don't include that functionality to delete repos. All we do is calculate and display cost, show relevant contextual info such as repos and organizations. Again, we're rethinking how to limit things. Cheers!
- marcelthomas 9y agoCompletely understand. We've just updated our scope to the minimum requirements to collect billing data. Please feel free to connect and let us know your thoughts. Thanks!
- leandrothomas 9y agoWe reworked this now, and have reduced the access GitHub and other apps are asking for, whilst still remaining useful. Feel free to check it out.
- apokusin 9y agoGreat job! Unubo is an awesome interface for a potentially useful product! A few notes: - Github permissions seem excessive. You require: - Personal user date: full access - Repos: public and private - Delete repos - Read and write Gists - Access to all available organization - Dropbox requires access to all my files rather than just an App folder (or a limited scope) - All of the above for Trello I haven't tested the other apps, but I hope you can understand why I'm not willing to provide full read/write access to my code, Dropbox files and project management to a service that tracks their monthly bills. (Perhaps these are required to receive accounting info?) Sadly these concerns have prevented me from tracking any apps as this level of access seems disproportional for the purpose of the tool.
- leandrothomas 9y agoThanks for you feedback, really appreciate it. I definitely understand. We're currently reviewing the different apps and what access they really require to be useful. The last thing we want to do is scare people off, so again.. thanks for your input!
- marcelthomas 9y agoThanks for your comment! We're currently working on a feature that allows you to manage various aspects of your apps, hence the full-access scopes, so for now, to reflect the level of access needed to display billing data, I've updated the scopes to minimum requirements for GitHub, Dropbox and Trello. Would be great if you could connect your apps and let us know your thoughts. Thanks!
- leandrothomas 9y agoHi there, just letting you know we reworked the access the above apps require, whilst still remaining useful. Feel free to try it out again.
- arekkas 9y agoI can't login, is your login service down by any chance? edit:// Yup, getting 504 gateway timeout on /login - I'll come back later :)
- leandrothomas 9y agoYes, DB just went down. We've implemented a failover, to hopefully avoid this in the future.
- knobbytires 9y agoSigned up. Added a few accounts. Tried adding a custom app and it wanted me to subscribe for $29 per month. I would happily pay for a service like this but not $300+ per year. As is, there is a free account or one targeted at businesses. What about an upgraded single user tier in the $50 per year range? Also, as others stated, permissions on Github, Dropbox, etc. seem excessive.
- zeronight 9y agoAgreed, right now I use a spreadsheet to track subscriptions, it works great. I think an app like this can replace and add value to a simple spreadsheet but $300 more dollars year to track services I already subscribe too is way to much. I would shoot for lower per year cost, around the $20 to $25 mark.
- leandrothomas 9y agoAs responded above, we've aimed this at businesses. Seems like we'd have success also targeting this at consumers, for personal use. Something for us to think about.
- kilroy123 9y agoSame here, I use a spreadsheet for my budget.
- zackify 9y agoNot publicizing this since it’s not officially launched (close to finished), but check out an app I’ve been working on. Receiptdefender.com. Add any subscription as a recurring receipt and you now will see how much you’re spending very easily! P.S. Native apps will be out right after launch :) Currently the freelancer price is $10 a month. Not set in stone and no credit card needed to sign up. Would love thoughts from here!
- leandrothomas 9y agoWe just launched our consumer focused Plus plan, featuring Netflix, Spotify and more. Check it out.
- webo 9y agoSlack permissions seem excessive: >UNUBO will be able to send messages to any channel or person on your workspace. >UNUBO will be able to read all messages, files, and profiles that you can access. >UNUBO will be able to receive all messages and activity that occurs in {company} as well as send messages on your behalf.
- edoceo 9y agoDoesn't any/all bookkeeping software handle this already? It's does for my business. My consumer subscriptions OTOH...
- leandrothomas 9y agoHey, thanks for commenting. Yes, things like xero handle this, but not in the same way. Bookkeeping software track spend, whereas UNUBO provides a snapshot of what your cost is at any time. You get to see how many users are assigned to what, and at what level of access. It goes beyond just financials. Within most growing companies, not everybody has access to tools like xero, which is often limited to finance dept. Again, seems to be a calling for consumer subscriptions. We're taking notes...
- leandrothomas 9y agoWe've just released a consumer focused plan. Feel free to check it out.
- leandrothomas 9y agoWe just launched our consumer focused Plus plan, featuring Netflix, Spotify and more.