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.<p>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.
One thing that annoyed me about some of these AppSumo deals, is that I got bitten by that fact that some of them had an expiration date. There seem to be alot of constraints that don't show up until AFTER you pay for it. Would be nice to make some of these details more upfront
No offense intended to anyone here but one of the Appsumo deals I signed up for was, absolutely, a scam.<p>My advice would be to only sign up for these offers if you won't be upset if some of the vendors refuse to honor the text of their offer, just assume that some will pull a bait-and-switch and you won't be too disappointed.<p>Do not think that you'll be able to persuade them to honor the offer as described, I made that mistake and simply wasted a lot of time; they know that, ultimately, no-one is going to bother taking legal action, so, they'll just stonewall you until you go away.<p>Also, pay extremely close attention to the expiration dates.
I guess Noah needed to do something to make up for the long-form sales letter debacle. :-)<p>There are a hell of a lot of services here... What are your must-haves?