CancelCheck

Hey IH,

Launched CancelCheck this week and would love your feedback.

The problem: the FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule was vacated by the 8th Circuit in July 2025. That sounds like a win for subscription businesses. It isn't. Federal rule is gone, but state auto-renewal laws (which have been quietly diverging for years) are now the controlling standard.

The penalties are real:

- California can treat non-compliant charges as unconditional gifts to the customer (refundable in full, plus statutory damages and attorneys' fees)

- Colorado allows penalties up to $20,000 per violation

- Virginia's "as easy as sign-up" cancel rule took effect July 1, 2026

- Minnesota restricts save offers unless the customer opts in to see them

- New York quietly amended its ARL in the May 2025 budget bill

Most subscription apps (Recharge, Loop, Skio, Bold) handle the checkout consent box well. Renewal notices, cancel-flow screen counts, save-offer sequencing, and proof-of-consent records are on the merchant. Founders I've talked to assumed their app handled all of it. It doesn't.

What CancelCheck does: submit your checkout URL and a description of your cancel flow. In two business days you get a written state-by-state gap list with the statute cited next to each finding. Free.

Offer ladder from there:

- Free scan (lead magnet, no upsell pressure)

- Compliance kit ($197 early access, $497 standard) — state-by-state templates, cancel-flow spec, consent block, record schemas

- Monthly monitoring ($79/mo) — alerts when state laws change that affect your flow

Where I could use IH help:

1. If you run a subscription business, request a scan and tell me if the deliverable actually saves you time vs. asking your lawyer or Googling. That's the whole thesis.

2. If you don't run one but know someone who does, an intro would mean a lot. My biggest constraint right now is distribution, not delivery.

3. Feedback on the site, offer structure, or pricing. I'd rather hear "your pricing is wrong" from you now than from silence in 60 days.

About me: trained as a lawyer (JD Rutgers, Dartmouth undergrad) but not currently practicing, so CancelCheck is explicitly a compliance information service, not a law firm. Attorney reviews go through partner counsel.

Stack (IH always asks): static site on Netlify, Formspree for intake, Google Sheets + Make for lead tracking, Stripe for payments, Claude for scan production. Built over about a week of nights and weekends. Total spend so far: around $40 (domain, one month of Google Workspace, minor hosting).

Site: cancelcheck.io

Happy to answer anything.