Gusto Discount

There is none—it's the magic of how affiliate works (well... sometimes).

How It Works

By using the link above to sign up to the app, you're telling their team that one of our videos, reviews, or comparisons convinced you to give them a shot.

As a thank you, they gives us a small kickback (at no additional cost to you), affiliate is the cost of marketing in their eyes.

You just need to make sure it's the last link clicked before signing up for the free trial (using Honey or Rakuten or any other coupon code extension or site will wipe out this discount and you'll likely be left with nothing in that case with no way to manually override, so make sure we're the last link click right before signing up for the first time in order for it to work—and yes, this has to happen BEFORE you sign up, going from free trial to paid will not work in most cases).

What Is Affiliate?

This is one of the largest (somewhat hidden) industries out there.

When you buy that lemon juicer you found on Wirecutter, you're using their Amazon affiliate link, and they get a small percentage of that sale. In exchange, you got a pretty damn useful and deep dive comparison of lemon juicers. It's a win-win!

But you, you're a smart one, looking for software discount codes and promotions before signing up, just like us!

We've asked the software companies on our website if we could pass along a discount or deal, and sometimes they let us... but most of the time they can't due to billing complexities. Billing complexities are often the reason why you won't often find software deals out there.

That's where we've decided to step in and offer something to you directly from us, as a thank you for using our affiliate link, why? Because you didn't have to, but you chose to.

How Much We Make

Software affiliate ranges anywhere from a small percentage of monthly spend (e.g. 15%), usually for the first year of a new customer to a small flat rate when you sign up. So if you're a solo seat account, on the lowest tier, and you cancel shortly thereafter—congrats! You just just got yourself any freebie we're offering by paying us less than a cup of coffee from your local Starbucks, gosh, talk about bargain shopping!

(And yes, we agree... It's ridiculously expensive, that's why we taught ourselves how to make lattes at home):

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What Will You Do With The Money?

We're investing any affiliate revenue directly back into creating more software comparison videos and software reviews. And as you'll see on our site, you'll only find modern software that we think is worth vetting (not every random tool that we'd actually never recommend).

With other review sites like G2 and other sites, you're actually getting pretty sub-par advice, and they just want your IP address to sell it back to the software on the site. It's clever, but just a race to the bottom. They don't care if you get value from their content. Though what we've seen is that on other sites, you simply click the link, purchase, and the site benefits.

We want to create more useful write-ups and videos (similar to that which sent you to this page right here), so we've decided to sweeten the deal.

FAQs

I signed up with your affiliate link before seeing this page, did I miss out on the course?

That's the best part! If you signed up to any software on our site, and we later come out with a course, if we can simply prove the affiliate connection, we'll grandfather you into the deals we have available.

So that's right, just by exploring the software on this site and clicking links, you're potentially locking yourself into a future perk, how cool is that? Take Superhuman for example, you get a free 30 day trial if you use our link, and say we later release a course on setting up Superhuman for success, you get any additional discounts/deals included.

Now go explore the other apps on our site and have some fun! Oh, but first, finish signing up here if you haven't already 😁

How Are You Different?

We got fed up with the B2B software review sites that we once loved. Sites that were once useful for finding the best software (G2 and Capterra) don't need to focus on giving value anymore as they just want your IP address and to identify you so that they can sell your data back to software companies to help them identify leads that go to their site (ever wonder why they pay you the $15 for a review? You give them all your information in exchange for that and they now know exactly who you are based on your IP Address).

First, we'll never sell your data. We use privacy focused analytics, we are a small business, and we (Alex & Andra), write 100% of the writeups on our site. We evaluate every single software and put our reviews down on paper (well, digital paper) and videos. Here, you're going to get the software recommendations that we'd give to our customers and closest friends.