Instaaa 2.0 - Promote your startup using AI-powered outreach

This is the first time, that I see bad comments and reviews for a product on PH. Like how do you plan to fix all of that, why continue in a space that you did a bad job in? Like I get this if it were a ground breaking idea like Theranos, but you're literally just emailing people about other startups.. what's so innovative and worth trying a second time about that?

I paid $139 previously to Instaaa.com I was told the campaign was going ahead, my Product Hunt launch was scheduled and they had reached out to all of the Media Publications listed.

After soon realising my Product Hunt Launch never actually went ahead I contacted Instaaa on multiple occasions to discuss why the launch didn't go ahead I was surprised to receive only "email read receipts" and 0 response from Ryan (the founder) or any other member of Instaaa staff.

To this day I have received 0 communications and no refund.

I would advise everyone to avoid this service.

Pros:

A good sales pitch.

Cons:

I was scammed by this company previously.

I still don't know where my money went or what happened with this... Would really love a refund

This is at best a low level scam leeching off on gullible founders. I wish ProductHunt had a ‘downvote’ button for situations like these.

We made a simple email service (https://sess.email) and purchased the 39 plan. All the sites submitted to have no relation to what our product does. Some of the sites emailed me asking me to pay $$ to publish an article about us.

Pros:

Avoid

Cons:

Stongly Avoid

Just sharing my experience of Instaa here. I've not tried Instaa 2.0, but if it's anything like the product's first iteration, it's sure to be a scam!

I bought the $39 package to promote my inbound marketing agency. Before buying the package, I asked Ryan on Twitter if it makes sense to buy this package since my startup is an agency. He assured me it does. So I went ahead and bought it.

After about a week or so, I got an email from Ryan detailing all the submissions he had made. Most of the submissions were made on the Contact page of the listed websites or an email sent to generic email accounts. Furthermore, there were absurd submissions made to link aggregators like Digg and StumbleUpon. There were no links to any actual pages which listed my startup.

When I reached out to Ryan to raise my concern, he told me to give a manual search on these websites to check the links. It's been close a month since that email and the only submission I see is on the "shamelessplug subreddit" on Reddit which as you may know is a place for self promotion. There were no submissions made on other subreddits and none of the websites where Ryan claimed to have made submissions seemed to carry a link to my website.

Deeply disappointed, a total BS and complete scam. I can't believe it has so many upvotes on Product Hunt!

Pros:

None

Cons:

This is a scam. Stay away!

I got a package with them a few months back and all they did was put my link up on some very low quality PBNs. I emailed them about it and they completely dismissed my concern, I was even considering putting a stop payment with my credit card company but figured it wouldn't be worth the hassle.

Pros:

none

Cons:

this is a scam

don't use this

Pros:

creator responsive initially

Cons:

paid money, never saw changes, or got a report

nothing to say

Pros:

Nice

Cons:

N/a.

All they do is send the product to pr@[insertcompanynamehere.com]. Many of blogs and journals they reach out to do not even offer guest blog hosting anymore. It's frankly highly misleading and unprofessional.

I paid for their enterprise package 9 days ago. I have gotten nothing but back and forth about an email login which they are trying to login via Microsoft and anything but an actual email client. If they don't understand the basics of email, I am pretty sure this is a scam or a bunch of marketers are hyping up amateurs. Now I am battling to get a refund out of them.