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New platform for fucking with Debt Collectors
Just launching a new platform, it will probably break if you use it. Try it and tell me how it goes. The Freemium is useless but if you want basic just sign up (with credit card) and I will give it to you free for life...seriously.
- peeters 13y agoI'd love to take a look, but the page isn't being served. Or at least it's taking more than 5 minutes to load. Anyone have an executive summary?
- sarahnadav 13y agoI have an executive summary, where should I send it? try to refresh www.bukit.co . I just checked and it's not loading for me so I am going to go into the servers and check what's going on, it was working a few minutes ago.
- spindritf 13y agoPost it here. I'm guessing not only peeters would like to read it.
- sarahnadav 13y agoWill do. It's too bad slide rocket closed down, I used to have all of my decks there and it was easy to share.
- MacsHeadroom 13y agosend it right here V
- sarahnadav 13y agohttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXmDo6-Lo07Xzq8OxwVpPk/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
- jasonsee 13y agoI'm getting nothing but a 503 error.
- sarahnadav 13y agosite crashed from too much traffic, should be up soon
- sarahnadav 13y agoHere it is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXmDo6-Lo07Xzq8OxwVpPk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
- mathattack 13y agoMaybe f*cking with the debt collectors involves sending them to that page?
- sarahnadav 13y agoDid you read the executive summary? any thoughts...
- midas007 13y agoLove the spirit of it.
- sarahnadav 13y agothanks! Just trying to create a platform that will help people know their rights and use them. Feedback is greatly appreciated :)
- blux 13y ago$25/month and especially $100/month seems a bit steep for people who are so much in debt they have to manage their debt collectors.
- sarahnadav 13y agoI am flexible about the price, I'd love to do it for free... Most people pay about $100 per month to an attorney to do the same thing so I tried to make it affordable.
- sarahnadav 13y agoI am also adding in a "free4ever" coupon. It's just not up yet
- Spooky23 13y agoNot necessarily. Debt isn't just college students and poor folk. Job loss, divorce, health issues, etc can easily put you in a situation where the bills fall behind and you have a cash flow crunch, but you're not destitute. I had a friend in a situation like this, and managing the various deals (payment arrangements, forgiveness programs, deadlines, etc) was very difficult. Paying $50/mo to manage this stuff would have saved her lots of money in fees and interest.
- sarahnadav 13y agoThanks Spooky23, I spent a lot of time working with people on one one so I know how much people are paying- and how much money people are losing because they aren't dealing with the issue. For a lot of people, it's worth it just to have the peace of mind that a collection agency will never call them again.
- sarahnadav 13y agoSpooky23 is also right because we've done a lot of research and most people in debt are 25-44 working, educated, and upwardly mobile (if they weren't being dragged down by debt) usually they got into debt because of job loss or medical crisis.
- alanweinkrantz 13y agoI've known the founder since the start and she's the real deal
- sarahnadav 13y agoThanks Alan!!! Nice to see you here
- JonnieCache 13y agoSite looks good, apart from the video on the right, which looks kinda wonky. Maybe it's just the initial frame (can't watch it right now) but it looks kinda WordArt-ish. Also, "join us, we're disrupting" sounds like a job advert, not a product proposition. I love the idea though, and I wish you the greatest of success. EDIT: could also do with some kind of tagline in the page title, unless that's not the done thing in SEOland anymore.
- sarahnadav 13y agoLet me know when you watch it- I definitely need a new one. I am working on an instruction video now. Something more personal. I can add a tagline in the page title. Great suggestion- and I'll ask a friend who does SEO about it
- antidaily 13y agoTo the founder -- show it off here: http://consumers.creditnet.com/Discussions/forum.php http://consumers.creditnet.com/Discussions/forum.php if you havent already.
- sarahnadav 13y agoHaven't yet- will do. It's still kind of rough so I'm trying to get some feedback before I really publicize.
- thejonathanross 13y agoGreat site, incredible idea, awesome founder.
- madcapslaugh 13y agogreat idea, im surprised this does not already exist
- sarahnadav 13y agoMission was to create something that people needed, and should exist.
- sarahnadav 13y agoNever posted here before, how should I upload an executive summary? What is the best way?
- sarahnadav 13y agohey Everyone! Congrats- the traffic has crashed the site :) I am going into the server now and fixing it
- coldcode 13y agoHow about screwing with credit bureaus instead? They are an order of magnitude worse than the debt collectors.
- sarahnadav 13y agoIMO, they are going to be screwed anyway. There are MUCH better systems of measuring people's credit worthiness. I looking forward to future tech slaying them completely. Also, if I am able to fully execute the vision for BUKIT. It will screw with the credit bureaus bonus
- sevenminaya 13y agoThe site is not working :/ try to fix it because HN is a great opportunity for exposure.
- sarahnadav 13y agoI am on a chat with the Amazon support team to get this back up. It's set to scale to users but not this fast apparently.
- sarahnadav 13y agoStill working on the servers- here is a link to the executive summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXmDo6-Lo07Xzq8OxwVpPk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4STqhM8PxcqNOoAMcjyFnXm...
- k3oni 13y agoWaiting for it to come back up. HN effect :).
- sarahnadav 13y agoBest.Problem.Ever!!!
- k3oni 13y agoIndeed :). On which type of instance are you running it on?
- sarahnadav 13y agoI am running it on elasticbeanstalk in Amazon. It should scale but the traffic showed a bug in an ebextension file
- sarahnadav 13y agono longer best problem ever sigh, site still not up
- sarahnadav 13y agoJust in case some of you are wondering who I am- my name is Sarah Nadav, this is my linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=17064747&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=17064747&trk=nav_res... and my twitter handle is @sarahnadav
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoPerhaps "fucking with debt collectors" is not the best way to phrase this. At first I was left disliking the existence a service that claimed to try to fuck with people (or companies) that are just trying to collect the money they are owed. They are not in the wrong... people in default are. (Even in situations were shit happens and you're behind... the fact remains that you owe someone money and they aim to collect it.) But it seems the service is meant to help both sides. EDIT: I also understand the collectors can be very invasive and annoying. But think about how you would be if someone owed you $5k. Would you just ping them once a month or would you be a little bit in their face trying to get your money?
- sarahnadav 13y agoThe service is meant to help both sides- the creditors and the people in debt, but the collection agencies are just guns for hire and VERY abusive. So my goal is to try and take them out, but it is ultimately to everyone's benefit.
- jfrisby 13y ago... except the collection agencies -- but good riddance to them.
- sarahnadav 13y agoEXACTLy- they are an expensive and abusive middle man and it is time to take them out.
- sarahnadav 13y agoJust saw your edit- and the reality is that when people don't have money, or intend to jack someone, chasing after them usually doesn't work. that said, I do feel for people who get stiffed. But for my company, it is not really addressing loans or debts between people on a small scale but a trillion dollar defaulted debt market where large funds buy debt and then hire agencies to collect. For the funds, its not about what was owed, it is about return on investment.
- sarahnadav 13y agoSorry everyone, site is still down. I'll go for the cliche and try and turn this crisis into opportunity... My situation is this- I live in Israel and my programmer who built the site is in the Army and unreachable. I've been coding but I really just have skills that are "programmer adjacent." I need to build my tech team so if this excites you and you have skills- (site is built in node.js and hosted on Amazon) please contact me through the email address in the executive summary.
- sarahnadav 13y agoIn case you are wondering why we crashed- it turns out that YESTERDAY Amazon changed their policy on npms and they no longer support self signed certificates. FML, but hopefully this might help other people avoid a crash http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...
- scott_karana 13y agoApparently there's a workaround: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more#comment-1264392115 http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...
- sarahnadav 13y agoI already checked that and it won't work for my platform but I am sure there will be a workaround soon.
- sarahnadav 13y agoThe patch was fixed with Amazon and www.bukit.co is up and running. I look forward to your feedback.
- sarahnadav 13y agoProblem is fixed and site is back up http://bukit.co/ http://bukit.co/
- osamet67 13y agoI don't get it - consumers pay you to send a cease and desist letter for them?
- sarahnadav 13y agoJust FYI- everything is back up except the SSL certificate so be aware. Should be fixed soon.