Startup Pack gives $10k worth of tools (Github, AWS, MongoHQ,..) to developers

It sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but I kept looking up and down the page trying to find the catch. Is it purely a promotional thing for the companies to which you get credit? If so, I think it could use some emphasis that you are getting this in exchange for nothing at all.

I know it says "free", but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't expect something non-monetary in return.

Think of it as an extension of the freemium model. The premise is to get startups hooked on valuable services that they will subsequently pay for as they grow.

It's no different to all the "free" services associated with the major accelerator programs.

Like a dealer handing out samples of crack to grade-schoolers.

There is no catch. Just a non-profit side project that I really like!

The link http://startuppack.org/ timeouts for me. The link http://www.startuppack.org/ loads right up.

Nice pack! The non-profit action is really great! Thanks a lot for such an initiative

Thanks men!

The API call, is a cool feature to avoid non-developer applications ;-)

nice one, signed up, some of the services would be useful!!

Nice :)