Changelog · building in public since Oct 12, 2026

What changed

Every offer added or removed and every change to the site, newest first. Live numbers are on /open.

  1. 2026-10-13

    Redesigned /open stats page + typography pass

    • /open now shows live KPI tiles, a daily page-view chart since launch, top offers by clicks, referrers (tracked from Oct 13), sponsor revenue to date and a building-in-public timeline
    • Changelog, submit, category, thanks and offer pages get consistent spacing, type and form styling
    • Home loads the first 12 cards immediately and the rest right after, for faster phones
  2. 2026-10-13

    9 new offers + faster mobile loading

    • Added ElevenLabs Startup Grants (12 months, 33M characters), Pinecone Standard trial ($300), Voyage AI free tokens, ElevenLabs Free, Pinecone Starter, Qdrant Cloud Free Tier, LangSmith Developer, Langfuse Hobby and MongoDB for Startups, each checked on its official page
    • Faster first load on phones: scripts now load after the page renders, and symbol icons ship with the page
    • Removed Hugging Face Inference Providers credits: free accounts no longer get monthly credits per the official pricing page. Updated Microsoft for Startups terms (starter amount no longer stated; up to $150K over time) and moved the Notion Education source to the GitHub Student Pack page
  3. 2026-10-12

    Design refresh: sharper hero, clearer sponsor slot, pricing cards

    • New hero headline, category shortcuts and a clearer note that the headline total is the sum of stated maximums
    • Every card now shows its last-checked date and the source domain it was verified against
    • Redesigned, clearly labeled sponsored slot with the next open week
    • Advertise and Sponsor pages: pricing cards, a 4-step booking-to-Whop-payment flow, and package preselect
    • New share image and social meta; focus styles, hover states and mobile polish
  4. 2026-10-12

    7 new offers + compare, saved offers and claim checklists

    • Added Deepgram $200 signup credit, AssemblyAI $50, Modal Starter ($30/mo compute), Exa free tier, Tavily Researcher, Firecrawl free plan and the Deepgram Flux TTS credit match (paid usage, ends Dec 31, 2026)
    • New: compare up to 4 offers, save offers on your device, claim checklists, copy/share links, press / to search
    • New: opt-in email alerts before offers expire
    • New: media kit at /advertise with a sponsored newsletter tier and a $19 verified listing boost
  5. 2026-10-12

    Redesign + 31 offers

    • New design informed by Depot and Index (via Refero)
    • Added 12 offers: Google for Startups (AI and pre-funded), AWS Activate x2, Microsoft for Startups, Copilot Student, Camber, Notion Education, Fireworks, Hugging Face, Cohere, NVIDIA NIM
    • Removed: Together AI signup credits (ended), DigitalOcean student credit (left the GitHub Pack); xAI data-sharing held for verification
    • Moved weak sources to official pages for Codex, Cerebras and Mistral
  6. 2026-10-12

    Launch

    • CreditDrop launched with 19 verified offers
    • Removed at launch: Cursor MLH Pro codes (out of stock), Airouter free tier (ended), Claude Startups $1K (over capacity)