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I made Cancel Your Subscription, a browser game where you've paid $9.99 a month for 38 months for "fundr. Premium", a subscription you never use, and your only job is to cancel it. The app fights back: a buried cancel link, two retention offers, an exit survey, a support line that isn't in service, and Dennis from Retention. It got 327 tries in its first 24 hours, back in September. It's had 5,404 now. Here's where they ended up: - 1,941 never found the cancel link - 3,066 reached the retention offers, and 2,926 walked past both - 2,277 made it to the live chat with Dennis - 1,948 cancelled Almost exactly as many tries never found the cancel link as got all the way out. Hiding the button is still the strongest trick in the game. Then, on 3 October, the part I didn't plan for. Every game page has a "Donate a coffee" window, and its tiers are the game's own plans: fundr. Basic $1, fundr. Plus $3, fundr. Premium $5, fundr. Premium Ultra $10. Every tier is one-time. A donate button that started a subscription, three clicks from a game about not being able to cancel one, would be the worst joke on the site. Someone bought fundr. Premium. $5, once. It's the first money the games have ever made. What I'd pass on, with the caveat that one donation is a sample size of one: - the donate window is part of the joke, not a banner next to it. The tier the person picked is the one the game is about - one-time only. Nobody wants a subscription from a game about subscriptions - the whole backend is one Vercel function and Upstash Redis counting anonymous tallies. No accounts, no analytics cookie. Every number in this post comes from it As a thank-you, we're giving away 20+ free codes for Pomato and inki combined, our iPhone Pomodoro timer ($2.99). Comment "pomato" and I'll DM you one. First 20+, one each, no catch. On Android? It's in internal testing: DM me the email on your Google account and I'll add you as a tester. Heads up: tries are browser tabs, not people, and our own test runs are in there. The games are free with no signup, and the fake pop-up ads inside them are for our own apps, Pomato included. https://www.fundrstudio.com/games/cancel-your-subscription/   submitted by   /u/aeshieru [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/5 18:55:19