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Mindery: Reminders that Pay

by JSH

Mindery helps people keep track of important events for which they want reminders.

  • Our initial inspiration was preventing surprise subscription charges.

What?! I don’t remember signing up for that Anchovy Recipes Channel!

Does that sound familiar?

While walking through the Mindery sign-up process, we found almost a dozen streaming subscriptions we had forgotten all about–such as these:

WOW! That’s almost $90 per month of streaming channels–just under our Amazon Prime Video account! We completely forgot about (and never use) at least half of those subscriptions.

Opportunity to immediately save $50/month from discoveries like this while signing up for Mindery.

Tame the Subscription Economy

Subscriptions for streaming services, monthly physical products and online content are huge improvements from the days when we were slaves to cable TV companies and other legacy services–until they aren’t.

Even after that initial clean-up of forgotten subscriptions, our needs and tastes will change. Being reminded about our subscriptions as they are about to renew is the best way to:

  • Remain aware of, and intentional about, this spending.
  • Prevent surprise subscription renewals, which saves money.

The Power of Reminders

Vanquishing the zombie subscription army is just the most obvious use for Mindery. Other uses include:

  • Important appointments, such as the doctor who will charge you money if you miss that scheduled appointment.
  • Important dates, like birthdays and anniversaries.

Question

Don’t calendars do this for me?

Answer

Yes, but only partially. Mindery sends you text messages; your calendar creates a notification pop-up which we usually ignore.

Vanquish your zombie subscription army.