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yahyamon Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe

Founder of Truebill here...

We plan to make money by recommending new services (i.e. we see you have X and Y, would you like to try Spotify).

yahyamon Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

Yep, this is definitely on our roadmap. Also, our platform is getting better as it goes, so these small mixups are getting fixed. Thanks.

yahyamon Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

I asked Plaid and that's what I was told. It's probably larger than that now since they're constantly adding long-tail support.

yahyamon Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

Thanks for the kind words. Definitely understand where you're coming from in terms of security. Our plan isn't really to monetize your data, it's moreso to make intelligent recommendations that we hope our users will follow. For instance, "you're paying $10 per month for Hulu, on average users are x% more satisfied with Netflix, click here to switch from Hulu to Netflix".

We've definitely discussed the idea of a manual export/import - we may get to that in the future.

yahyamon Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

Wow, that's a ton of $.

To answer the money question, right now we actually don't make money. In the future, we think we can make $ by making intelligent recommendations i.e. "you like x and y, try signing up for Z subscription service.