🔥 How to get $5000 AWS Credits for 2 Years without paying $720 for ProductHunt's Founders Club or AppSumo's Startups Deal🔥
We all need a solid server to set up our SaaS online. You can either pay monthly for it or looks for some kind of startup credits from known cloud providers like AWS, DO, Scaleways, etc. AWS Credit is considered the most popular in this segment as they offer up to $5000 of cloud credits for 24 months through their Startup Activate Programs.
The AWS Credit is usually provided by Startup Incubators or accelerators only which is either difficult to join for smaller startups or they charge thousands of dollars to enroll. However, till now the easiest way to get this credit ( along with other benefits ) was to join Product Hunt's founder's club which charges $720 annually or to get the lifetime deal of startups .com from AppSumo for $49.
But very recently, Startups .com stopped offering AWS credits through their $49 AppSumo deal. :(
So, paying $720 for ProductHunt's founder's club was the second cheapest way to get cloud credits.
Well, this has changed now. :)
Recently, I heard about this amazing program called JoinSecret They define it as a platform for entrepreneurs with exclusive benefits & discounts on SaaS. While it's free to join and offers dozens of SaaS deals for free but the real fun starts with their premium subscription which generally costs €49 annually. With this premium membership, you can 100+ premium deals. One of the major premium offers is $5,000 free AWS credit for two years.
A few other interesting deals are - €36,000 free credit on Scaleway, $2,000 credit on Airtable, $4,000 credit on Freshworks, $500 credit on Bubble, and 12 months free on Sendgrid, etc.
If this was not already enough, currently they are offering extra 30% off on the Premium Membership with promo code SPECIAL30 which make this Secret premium more affordable ( €34.3 per year in spite of €49 ) 😊
They also have an invite referral system with which if invite your friends, you will save €5 on Premium for every friend who joins Secret & gets approved! If this information was helpful, you may want to join through my invite link. 😊
I hope this will be helpful for many SaaS founders who are looking for free hosting resources. 🙏🏻🔥
Or you just join YC's startup school, pay nothing, post your updates for 4 weeks in a row and you have access to great knowledge and the deals, including $5k in AWS credits.
@reader Wow! Never knew this. Seems like they have introduced deals this year. However, I just checked the site but couldn't find any exact information about these deals.
The pitch goes like this - "Startup School offers many exclusive deals from the best in the business (Algolia, AWS, Brex, Google Cloud, Segment, Stripe, and more)."
But there are no details as to whether this AWS credit is for $1K or $5K or if it's for one year or two years.
I still think it's valued since it's free but one will have to submit weekly updates for 8 weeks in a row before being able to receive these credits, I believe.
If you have already joined it, can you make these doubts clear, please?
2 years. The rest of your questions have been answered in my original comment.
Thanks for sharing.
Glad that you liked it. 😊
Thanks. Just signed up..Lets see how much time does it take to approve AWS credits.
Sounds interesting. Can I use those credits on existing accounts? or I will have to redeem them by using new email?
While a single person can have multiple startups but you can't claim the AWS credits for a single startup or organisation twice. So, it's better to use a new company email before claiming.
However, if you haven't every benefitted from any other AWS credit programs for your existing AWS account, you can surely claim this with that same account.
Thanks for sharing, this sounds very interesting @nanowhiz. I'm wondering and sorry if this may sound foolish as I haven't tried this before but are these credits really free? I mean, do they not charge you the 5000$ credit after two years?
While I haven't started my AWS credit pack through JoinSecret since I had already claimed it through other means.. but as far this concept goes, it does and it's indeed fully FREE for the first two years and up to $5000 worth of charges.
This does sound impossible but I am a user of AWS credit and hence I can say this with confidence.
So if I pay it's guaranteed that I will get the aws credits? Or I'll have to do something more?
Hey @GiancarlloRojas,
Unfortunately, this can't be guaranteed anywhere, not just with this program. 'AWS Activate' program itself manually reviews each application and then approve it. But in most of the cases, it's as easy as creating a profile for your startup on Crunchbase. They will ask about your startup details, website etc.
To avoid this rejection on a later stage, joinsecret does their own due diligence. Once you join the premium membership, you need to email at [email protected] and specify the URL of your site with your business model for us to assess your eligibility for this deal. JoinSecret team will get back to you within 24 hours. This deal is not applicable to agencies or consultants.
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Nope. They don't do anything on our behalf except providing us a way to get free credits from multiple companies ( like Printable, AWS, etc. ) which they otherwise offer only to Startups/SaaS which is part of a startup incubator, accelerator, etc.
So, this 34 Euro goes to them for their efforts to contact all these companies and negotiate a better deal for us. Currently, they have 100+ such deals in their database.