2025 Startup Anti-Ranking on Grapevine

1. Cred

This is stupid and bad. YESTERDAY: I won the CRED Friday. It was Tech bundle of a MacBook, iPad, and AirPods Max. They asked me to fill a form for rewards to be sent to me. TODAY: I got a call from CRED support saying this was because of a bug and now the jackpot is cancelled

Source: https://x.com/_jaikathuria/status/1832317371345760530

2. Astrotalk

Astrology is a business of exploitation. Me and my friends often joke that that their "star readers" are nothing more than underpaid call center agents reading from a script generated by an ChatGPT. There's also an unsubstantiated rumor that user data, including deeply personal conversations about life, relationships, and finances, is being packaged and sold to third-party marketers.

3. Unacademy

Oh Unacademy and GM have become irrelevant faster than s(Orry). I know several employees that have mentioned expected overtime that is unpaid, verbal abuse by managers, and regular midnight layoffs, announced via videoconference without warning.

Sales teams is obviously pushing parents to buy overpriced courses to get that commission. Unacademy? More like Unaccountable.

4. Ola Electric

99% consumer complaints solved means 99% bikes are moving? Hard to believe.

I have no choice but to accept @bhash ’s offer to work with OLA… After being tagged thousands of times I anyway feel like I am an OLA employee. OLA can seal this collaboration by committing to the below action points & looking forward to joining.

https://x.com/kunalkamra88/status/1850841932878254264