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A Weekly Dispatch / Est. 2026

I buy too much
software so you don't
have to.

Every Tuesday morning, five SaaS and AI deals worth your money this week — plus the one heavily-promoted "deal" that's actually a trap. Hand-tested. No affiliate spam. Ten-minute read.

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147
Deals tested
this quarter
$2.4M
Estimated reader
savings logged
10 min
Average weekly
read time
Read by founders at YC, Indie Hackers & On Deck Tools we cover: Notion · Webflow · HubSpot · Semrush · Linear · Beehiiv · Cursor · Stripe · ClickUp Five deals. One trap. Every Tuesday. Read by founders at YC, Indie Hackers & On Deck Tools we cover: Notion · Webflow · HubSpot · Semrush · Linear · Beehiiv · Cursor · Stripe · ClickUp Five deals. One trap. Every Tuesday.
The Brief

A weekly autopsy of every SaaS deal worth your money.

Software pricing is a hostage situation. Hidden tiers. Annual contracts that quietly grandfather in 30% price hikes. AppSumo deals that look like steals until you read the fine print. DealJunki cuts through it — built by someone who actually pays for these tools.

01 / Hand-tested

Real accounts. Real data.

Every deal is paid for, signed up for, used for at least 14 days. If it's in the brief, it's been on my credit card.

02 / Trap detection

The trap of the week.

One deal every issue I'd recommend you skip — usually a cookie-cutter LTD or a stealth price hike disguised as a "promo."

03 / Pricing math

Annual vs. monthly, done.

Real dollar savings calculated for your team size. Never spend an hour decoding three pricing tiers again.

04 / LTD vetting

Lifetime deals, sanity-checked.

Tracked AppSumo, Pitchground, SaaS Mantra, and Dealify launches. Will the company exist in 18 months? I check.

A Sample Issue

This is what lands in your inbox every Tuesday at 9am ET.

No 4,000-word think pieces. No "10 best" listicles. Just five deals, ranked, with hands-on verdicts and the math behind them — plus the one I'd avoid and exactly why.

You'll spend ten minutes reading. You'll save anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand a year on tools you were going to buy anyway.

↳ Average issue: 1,180 words · 10-min read
DealJunki · Issue 046 Apr 21 '26

The five deals worth your software budget this week.

01
HubSpot Starter — annual prepay
Switch from monthly to annual before May 1 to lock in the legacy Starter price. After May 1, the same plan jumps tiers.
$1,440/yr $1,008/yr Save $432
Buy
02
Webflow Business — early Black Friday
They quietly opened the holiday discount four months early. Use code only available via the partner portal.
$2,820/yr $1,974/yr Save $846
Buy
03
AppSumo · Tally Pro — Lifetime
Founder team, profitable, no VC pressure to inflate pricing. The healthiest LTD on the platform right now.
$59 once vs $348/yr SaaS
Buy
Trap
Mailchimp's "Spring Sale"
The 40% off applies to a tier they raised 38% three weeks ago. You're paying 2024 prices to look like 2025 prices. Skip — Beehiiv, Kit, and Loops all undercut by 60%+.
Skip
DJ
Editor · DealJunki
"
I bought 14 tools last month. 12 were trash. The other 2 saved me hours a week. This newsletter is my receipts.
The Editor · DealJunki

I've personally subscribed to over 200 SaaS products across the last decade — from Notion and Webflow to obscure AppSumo lifetime deals nobody talks about. I've seen which ones quietly raise prices, which startups disappear in 18 months, and which discounts are actually worth taking.

DealJunki exists because the alternative — Forbes Advisor listicles, "best of" SEO spam, and YouTubers reading press releases — is wasting your money. Every Tuesday I send what I'd actually tell a friend, with the math to back it up.

Reader Notes

What the early founding readers are saying.

★★★★★
Saved $1,400 in the first month by switching three tools to annual the week he flagged the price hike. This is the only newsletter I actually open.
M
Maya Chen
Founder · Latch Studio
★★★★★
The trap section alone is worth subscribing for. I was about to buy that LemonSqueezy LTD and DealJunki's note made me pull back — they shut down the deal three weeks later. Saved me $399 and a headache.
J
Jordan Reyes
Indie hacker · Building in public
★★★★★
Ten minutes on Tuesday morning replaced two hours of pricing research per tool. As a small marketing team, this newsletter literally pays our software budget.
P
Priya Anand
Marketing Lead · Northbeam Labs
147
Deals tested
since launch
38
Traps caught
before readers bought
$2.4M
Estimated reader
savings logged
52%
Average open rate
(industry: 22%)
FAQ

Quick
answers.

Anything else? Reply to any issue and the editor will read it.

How often does it send, and at what time? +
One issue, every Tuesday at 9am Eastern. Occasionally an extra "deal alert" mid-week if a major SaaS launches a flash discount worth flagging — never more than 2 emails total in any week.
Is this just affiliate spam in disguise? +
Fair question. Yes, when a deal includes an affiliate link, you'll see it. But the recommendation comes first — affiliates aren't why a tool gets covered. Plenty of "Buy" picks are tools with no affiliate program at all, and several of the loudest affiliates have been written up as traps.
Who is this newsletter for? +
Founders, indie operators, and marketing/ops teams under ~50 people who buy their own software stack and care about the bill at the bottom of every annual renewal. If you're an enterprise procurement specialist with a Salesforce contract from 2019, this is probably not your speed.
Will there ever be a paid version? +
Eventually, yes — an optional DealJunki Pro tier is planned for late 2026 with real-time deal alerts, a private deal database, and exclusive negotiated discount codes. The free Tuesday brief will always stay free, and founding readers (you, if you sign up now) will get Pro at the lowest grandfathered rate forever.
What if I want to unsubscribe? +
One click in the footer of any email. No "are you sure" prompts, no exit surveys, no dark patterns. The unsubscribe link is the same size as the subscribe button.
Do you take sponsorships or sell my data? +
Sponsorships: yes, clearly labeled, never more than one per issue. Selling your data: never. Your email lives in Beehiiv (the newsletter platform) and goes nowhere else.
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