The Bad Ass Developer Bundle

Not that I'm against referral links all the time, but is it right to submit Hacker news links when they're referral links? I don't see it in the rules, just curious...

The submitter gets $10/purchase I think.

Seems like a great way to generate yourself hundreds of dollars worth of recurring costs, most of which will be for services you don't really need.

In other words, I don't get this bundle. Seems like selling you a pack of costly solutions and asking you to figure out the problem they might solve for you. I'm always very cautious about signing up to new recurring expenses, both personally and as a business.

This could be called the "increase your monthly costs randomly" bundle...

Is it likely that anyone will want to solve all of these problems at the same time?

A lot of the services offer credit, which seems like a good way to go. Some of them offer a couple of months of subscription, however. New Relic in particular has a little note that says you "can down / upgrade afterwards". Which sounds like you'll be signing up for a recurring billing scheme with some of these services. Can anyone confirm if this is/isn't the case?

Either way, still a great deal, but be sure you keep track of all your subscriptions and remember to cancel the ones you don't want when the bundle credit expires.

For the Heroku deal, is that for new paying user or just new users? I've had a free account for a while, but I may buy the appsumo deal just for the Heroku credit.

The SendGrid deal alone is worth the $47...