Hi Everyone,
I'm one of the cofounders of Truebill. We've been working hard for the last few months to make Truebill the best platform to find, track and manage your subscriptions - give it a try and we'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks!
@yahyamokh How do I link PayPal if I don't do it during the initial onboarding? I've been looking for a product like this for a long time now. I currently have my assistant log into my accounts every few months and manually find recurring subscriptions for me to review
@itsthisjustin Hi Justin. In the top menu click "Add Linked Account" then click "view more" at the bottom of the modal. Then type Paypal into the search box and it will come up. We're working on making this more streamlined.
Hopefully your assistant will appreciate Truebill then :-)
@yahyamokh this service seems cool, but i'm a little worried that it's free.. how will you charge / make money (eventually)? and how are you using the data that you collect?
I'm just a little skeptical of a service like this.... given you guys have funding and are on the "normal startup" path, how do you make money? Do you sell my data? What's going on here?
@randallb Hi Randall. The idea is that in the future we'll be able to recommend services to you - like "hey you might enjoy Spotify". Spotify would then pay us a referral fee if you decide to sign up.
@yahyamokh@randallb I was wondering this same thing and this does help clear it up. This is Mint's model as well so it makes sense.
I don't know what other users would think about this but assuming
* you're saving money for me
* and this makes me happy :)
* you are tracking subscription categories like mobile phone, internet service, etc.
* I cancel a service _and switch to a new similar service_
I'd be open to you asking me why I switched, especially if it's a quick poll via email with optional detailed response.
And if
* enough users are answering why they switched
* you have those analytics
* you see an unusual amount of switching with similar reasons for switching or a surge in users switching to/from similar services
* _I_ use a service that is being "abandoned" :)
* I would be interested to know those trends and where they are going
Or perhaps this is already in the pipeline… :)
The signup needs to accept `.name` domains for email though. :(
[edit]Sorry I don't see a way to contact your tech crew via the site since I can't sign up. So it looks like maybe just the regex for the email address TLD needs to be a bit more relaxed. :)
@my_chiguai@randallb Right, also one other thing we can do, a lot of times when you cancel a subscription the company will make a special offer - i.e. "we'll give you 3 months free if you stay". We can roll out this feature and charge subscription companies to access it (but you'll still be able to cancel with just a click).
A tool for anyone. If you've got subscriptions with recurring payments, Truebill will help you manage and cancel them. I don't see a reason why people won't love this! Sign up and save money.
In addition to a great founding team, it's a super intuitive, easy to use product.
TrueBill immediately found a monthly DropBox subscription I had hooked up to a CC I was not using and had set to auto pay the bill -- so that's $120/yr in savings within 20 minutes of signing up -- thanks guys!!
Most people I've talked to always do this manually (it's something Mint et al never cracked) and it's a huge pain. Keep up the good work!
Been using Truebill for a couple of weeks. Super useful! Found a few subscriptions I wasn't aware of and was able to cancel those easily. Great work @idris and @yahyamokh!
@jakemor I'm glad you asked! We never store your bank credentials. We integrate with Plaid's API to get the transactions from your bank. You can read about Plaid's security here: https://plaid.com/security
Also, we have a read-only API into your accounts, so we can't transfer money out, etc.
@idris@jakemor hmm, I'd feel a lot more comfortable inputting my information if it was at least an iframe from Plaid, the bank/paypal, oauth, etc. When it comes down to it, the form is sending data to truebill.com. If it weren't for this being endorsed by a few folks on here I would be too wary to try it out.
That said, looks awesome and super useful.
Very well done. this is exactly what i wanted from Trim: a rich user interface. not just text via sms. i have to admit i had in mind to build something like that :)
Some familiar feedback with Trim was the fact that subscription people ARE happy paying for kept popping up. @idris is this something that can be filtered on Truebill?
@bentossell@idris Hi Ben, while we'll report on all subscriptions we've built specific functionality around monitoring to catch increases, double bills, or being billed for things you thought you'd cancel. Ultimately we want to manage the full lifecycle of the subscription for you - including pausing or adjusting your plan, not just canceling. Thanks!
I've never actually seen in one spot how many recurring things I pay for—SaaS products, subscriptions. Eye opening experience for both personal and business accounts. Killer product @yahyamokh and @idris can't wait to see where you guys take it
Great to see this on PH!
Really valuable service that has already saved me money (iTunes bill for extra storage that I didn't need).
Killer team, excited to see how @idris and @yahyamokh continue to develop this product.
Just saved me $85/month from a sub I couldn't figure out how to cancel. Local utility provider so I'm not even sure how you guys pulled if off, but this is fantastic.!
@asong408 Had the same situation with multiple subscriptions over time but had to find them via my gmail which has 20k unread messages ... haha --- truebill would be a life saver
@officebeats It can take some time to get all of the transactions from your bank, so it may just be that. You'll get an email when we're done fetching everything and Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify should show up.
Such a time relevant and helpful tool full of value. My only feedback so far is duplicate data based on adding a credit card that is also affiliated with a bank account, so now it looks like I have multiple accounts with all of my subscriptions. Other than that, super intuitive and very useful. Thanks for your work on this!
There's been a number of subscription management services popping up recently - @yahyamokh, whats your vision for Truebill a few years from now, and whats your secret sauce? Awesome product btw, excited to see the accuracy improve over time :)
@tim061693 Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback!
We think finding and canceling subscriptions is a great way to build a product that people love and that helps save money, but there's definitely more to our vision than that.
Essentially, subscriptions are becoming a bigger and bigger part of our everyday life - and the average person is shifting more of their spending to subscriptions. Even large companies are now shifting entirely to a subscription model - i.e. Microsoft Office is now available only as a subscription.
This is great for consumers, it's convenient and can also be cheaper, but it also becomes a problem trying to keep track of and manage 15 different subscriptions. So we see that as our mission, to manage the full lifecycle of subscriptions - from discovery to enrollment to personalization to management to cancellation. We think subscriptions can be a great tool to simplify your life - if you have a simple solution to manage them.
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