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Somebody start a company that integrates all these services in to an API for perks and let's employees choose what they want and then the company pays for them.

Somebody start a company that integrates all these services in to an API for perks and let's employees choose what they want and then the company pays for them. That's what I was doing before a stronger passion called me, but the problem was real and getting beta customers lined up was as easy as I'd ever had it.

ruhroh2014 13y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/betterworks-shuts-down/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/betterworks-shuts-down/ === BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31. The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be rolling out a steady stream of new features like catering and groups and permissions. In fact, Director of Product Varun Krishna told me that BetterWorks was seeing growing interest from larger enterprises (though in retrospect that may have been a polite way of saying that it wasn’t making enough money from small- and medium-sized businesses) (...)
- tomasien 13y ago
  Betterworks missed the mark in a lot of ways, but in other ways they were doing well - but their seed round and series a were so huge, if it wasn't going to be a multi-billion dollar company it wasn't worth continuing. If you want to be a hundred million dollar company who could make your way to being a billion dollar company, do this but do it better.
tarof 13y ago
AnyPerk.com (YC W12) has partnered many of those companies and provide that feature! https://anyperk.com/ https://anyperk.com/
- trey_swann 13y ago
  AnyPerk.com is a great platform for providing employee perks and discounts. It works for companies of all sizes. We implemented AnyPerk at my last company when we were 52 people. And, we are implementing it at my new company that has less than 10 employees. Size doesn't matter. Great service. Highly recommend.
  - tomasien 13y ago
    AnyPerk is group discounts for corporations. It's not perks. It's a misnomer.
kmack 13y ago
AnyPerk(YC W12) is currently offering discounts at a number of the services listed here such as Homejoy and Lyft.
rpicard 13y ago
I think that's what Uncover is doing: https://www.uncover.com/ https://www.uncover.com/
- ztratar 13y ago
  This is great -- why have I never heard of it before?
  - criswell 13y ago
    I hate to think of how many awesome things are out there that I'm unaware of.
    - twic 13y ago
      Especially since one of them might be a really effective way to become aware of awesome things.

ruhroh2014 13y ago

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/betterworks-shuts-down/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/betterworks-shuts-down/ === BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31. The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be rolling out a steady stream of new features like catering and groups and permissions. In fact, Director of Product Varun Krishna told me that BetterWorks was seeing growing interest from larger enterprises (though in retrospect that may have been a polite way of saying that it wasn’t making enough money from small- and medium-sized businesses) (...)

tomasien 13y ago
Betterworks missed the mark in a lot of ways, but in other ways they were doing well - but their seed round and series a were so huge, if it wasn't going to be a multi-billion dollar company it wasn't worth continuing. If you want to be a hundred million dollar company who could make your way to being a billion dollar company, do this but do it better.

tarof 13y ago

AnyPerk.com (YC W12) has partnered many of those companies and provide that feature! https://anyperk.com/ https://anyperk.com/

trey_swann 13y ago
AnyPerk.com is a great platform for providing employee perks and discounts. It works for companies of all sizes. We implemented AnyPerk at my last company when we were 52 people. And, we are implementing it at my new company that has less than 10 employees. Size doesn't matter. Great service. Highly recommend.
- tomasien 13y ago
  AnyPerk is group discounts for corporations. It's not perks. It's a misnomer.

kmack 13y ago

AnyPerk(YC W12) is currently offering discounts at a number of the services listed here such as Homejoy and Lyft.

rpicard 13y ago

I think that's what Uncover is doing: https://www.uncover.com/ https://www.uncover.com/

ztratar 13y ago
This is great -- why have I never heard of it before?
- criswell 13y ago
  I hate to think of how many awesome things are out there that I'm unaware of.
  - twic 13y ago
    Especially since one of them might be a really effective way to become aware of awesome things.