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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:19 pm AEST



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User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-17, 8:56 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-17, 8:56 pm AEST





O.P.

This is a website I made and I am soliciting feedback for it (which seems to be allowed under /wiki/wp_advertising).

Hi everyone,

I got another SMS the other night from Exetel telling me that my plan is increasing in cost. It's pretty frustrating paying more for something when there's no obvious benefit (what am I actually paying more for?).

So, I developed a website called Churno (https://churno.net). Basically the idea is that you can look for deals that are being offered by ISP's for churning to their service. If you do decide to switch, you can tell Churno that, and it will automatically email you when your bonus period is coming to an end, at which point, you can head back to Churno, choose another provider, and the cycle repeats. A calendar helps you understand when you should cancel so you're not stuck paying for half a month.

People can sign up and post new deals and benefits to those deals, and vote on existing offers as well. Long time benefits (like $/off monthly) benefits are shown, alongside once off benefits (i.e: Get $100 for switching with xyz website).

I'm mainly looking for feedback, so if you have any, let me know. I'm hoping this will help people to save money. There's no ads or monetisation.

Let me know what you think!

Also, in the interests of being transparent, Churno was developed with the help of AI. Mainly Grok Build/Antigravity. I say "with the help of" because I am a software developer for work, and before I had kids and life got busy, I would have the time to write these things from scratch. Now, unfortunately, I don't. But I do have time to sit on the couch when everyone else has gone to bed and do quality checks etc to ensure that things work more-or-less as intended, before I pass out myself. Seriously, toddlers, where do they get their energy from?









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Andrew (N. Sydney)

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posted 2026-Jul-20, 8:52 am AEST

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posted 2026-Jul-20, 8:52 am AEST (edited 2026-Jul-20, 8:53 pm AEST)





Very nice fast, clean, clear design. There are a couple of menu items I don't understand. They are theme and system.

I haven't dug deep but I presume this is a PWA.

I'm not sure that I appreciate seeing offers that have expired. It just seems to add clutter.

But all in all, it's smart and impressive.

I can't help noticing though that there is another site churno.co.

It offers a service for analysing customer behaviour to identify the incidence of churning so that companies can address the underlying issues.

Coincidence?













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=Moscow Mule=

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posted 2026-Jul-20, 5:45 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-20, 5:45 pm AEST





Great concept and overall layout but sound some of the pricing out of whack.
I was looking at internet pricing for 500+

I assume the first line refers to the bonus or saving, and the second is middle row shows the actual plan price per month?
iiNet is showing a 9.99 p/mth plan for 1000/50 (on a 24 mth deal – shuddup and take my money already !!)
Superloop reflects 36,67 p/mth for 1000/50
Aussie BB Reflects 50 p/mth for 1000/50 (With a 3 mth promo period….not 6mths)

Some great deals here indeed if they were legit but ISP pages suggest not!









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-23, 7:56 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-23, 7:56 pm AEST





O.P.

The visual noise that expired offers add is appreciated. I'll probably hide them by default.

And no, churno.co isn't related. It's almost hard to believe that it's not. I called my site "churno" because I thought it was vaguely similar to a churro, the spanish doughnut. I was going to theme after that but I got distracted, maybe in the future.









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-23, 7:58 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-23, 7:58 pm AEST





O.P.

It's hard to normalise the data in a consistent way, I didn't fully appreciate just how hard it would be. For example, some providers have monthly rates, others have an up-front cost, and then want to give you other types of bonuses as well (flybuys etc). All of these corner cases makes the scraper choke.

I've tried to tune it up... feel free to take another look if you want.









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Jokc

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posted 2026-Jul-24, 8:18 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-24, 8:18 am AEST





I really like what you've put together and am curious to see it develop further!

Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't see how to specify when my current plan (which is on the promo introductory period ) started from... like I'm a couple months into my Superloop plan already, but I couldn't see a way to flag when that's due to end.

I'd like to make use of the Plan Your Churn feature on the deal pages, but it suggests I need to take action around January 2027 when I know it's closer to November 2026 that I have to forewarn Superloop I'll be cancelling









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-25, 9:07 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-25, 9:07 pm AEST





O.P.

Thanks @Jokc, I'm going to add a provider page so people can say (if they know) what the cancellation for a provider is (and if they do pro-rata refunds).

That other idea about people being able to list when the signed up to their current provider is also a good idea.









User #16295612posts

GlueMaster

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posted 2026-Jul-26, 8:59 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-26, 8:59 pm AEST





Great stuff, I just used it to find my next churning RSP and placed the order.

One thing that matters to me, and will be good for you to include is a filter for RSP who doesn't use CGNAT or Can opt out for free. As this is a non-negotiable criteria for me in choose an RSP.









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bigglesworth

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posted 2026-Jul-27, 9:18 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-27, 9:18 am AEST





Azimuth Apps writes...

It's pretty frustrating paying more for something when there's no obvious benefit (what am I actually paying more for?).

That is a bit of a blinkered outlook. Petrol has increased in price without any obvious benefit – the same can be said for electricity, so it is pointless saying that.

Prices for all services and good are always going up.









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-27, 10:17 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-27, 10:17 am AEST





O.P.

It's true, and I'm getting shish-kabob'd by the cost of living (as is everyone I guess). I should be more engaged on what specials internet providers are offering. Churno gives me a way to do that.

To put it another way, Coles might have chicken kievs for $2/each. Woolies might have them that week for $1/each. Depending on where I'm going, I'm paying less for the same product. That's the kind of logic that I'm applying to Churno, I'd like to take advantage of the introductory period to minimise how much I pay for internet/mobile.

There are points of argument in that, someone could say, internet providers aren't the same, one has a better backend, one has lower ping in games. And they would be right – it's just that at this point in my life I don't really care about that as much as I once did. I just want to give away minimal $ for services.









User #800615880posts

Ben M

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posted 2026-Jul-27, 7:56 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-27, 7:56 pm AEST





I was going to say that OzBargain is already great for finding good deals and what does Churno do.....just links to OzBargain deals.

So basically you wasted your time making a website that already exists.









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-27, 9:23 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-27, 9:23 pm AEST





O.P.

Not entirely correct, I wasted my time:

1. Finding the deals that had churn benefits
2. Putting them on the website
3. Letting people get automated reminders that their intro deal is about to expire, and that it's time to churn, and advising on the best time to do that so they don't get billed a whole extra cycle

Take me for example. My Extel internet sub is going to be $95 this month. That's crazy money. I've got a reminder set a day or two before on a deal on Churno that has a good intro price. I keep forgetting to churn and I pay the price for it.

The same goes for mobile. I'm with Felix. They're jacking the price up over time for no obvious reason. Again, reminder set, I'll jump to another eSIM compatible provider to get cheaper deals.

OzBargain is a general purpose deals website. Churno is a purpose-built thing for churning deals, with the intent that it's easier to jump from deal to deal to save money without running your own spreadsheet or setting your own reminders that you can miss.









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Ben M

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 4:17 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-28, 4:17 am AEST





So why link everything to Ozbargain and not directly to the providers deal?

If Ozbargain didnt exist would Churno even work?









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 8:26 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-28, 8:26 am AEST





O.P.

Sometimes the deal page on the companies page can be confusing or the discount is not clear. So linking to OzBargain shows what is worth getting excited about and then you can navigate to the seller page itself.









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Andrew (N. Sydney)

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:13 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:13 pm AEST





Azimuth Apps writes...

Churno is a purpose-built thing for churning deals, with the intent that it's easier to jump from deal to deal to save money without running your own spreadsheet or setting your own reminders that you can miss.

I think you have achieved that.

But I'm not sure it has a long future.

Today you used AI to help build it. Tomorrow we will all be briefing AI agents to scour the web for offers that fit our requirements. There will be even less friction to churning. Maybe these kinds of offers will disappear.

Azimuth Apps writes...

There's no ads or monetisation.

So your motivations are elswhere.

As an experience I'm sure its not wasted effort by any means. Its a good example of how clean and fast a website should be.













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Ben M

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:31 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:31 pm AEST





Azimuth Apps writes...

So linking to OzBargain shows what is worth getting excited about and then you can navigate to the seller page itself.

Which is exactly what Ozbargain already does, you appear to be an extra layer on top.

If Ozbargain goes down for a week or disappears completely does Churno stop updating?









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:47 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-28, 12:47 pm AEST





O.P.

@andrew it's certainly very possible. But I can't and shouldn't do or not do things in the future because AI will be able to do it in the future.

My motivations are, I guess, well to build something useful for starters, to see how good the models are and whether they can achieve something like this. And to get it hosted and see if other people find value in it.

Depending on how things work out in the future, I don't know, in the very long term there may be monetization opportunities but for now I just want to save money on monthly subscriptions.









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-28, 8:54 pm AEST



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O.P.

@Ben M If Ozbargain went away then I wouldn't have a good source for where these churning deals are available from. But that's probably not going to happen.

People can submit their own deals to Churno and link appropriately. So the hope is, in time, if it's valuable enough and if people use it, then they would submit their own deals directly to Churno. It's ambituous but someone in this thread has already used it to select another provider to churn to.

The key of Churno is not the listing of deals. As you've said, OzBargain does that quite well already. It's that deeper integration of, okay you signed up on this day, we will remind you automatically at the end of your grace period when it's time to churn again. And when we do that, we'll match you with deals you might like. Deal listing is only half of the equation, it's the automated reminders that make up the other half.









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@JD

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posted 2026-Jul-30, 3:15 pm AEST

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posted 2026-Jul-30, 3:15 pm AEST (edited 2026-Jul-30, 4:14 pm AEST)





I love the idea, and will give it a run.

Firstly, on email signup, Google Chrome won't automatically generate a password for this site (minor, but a pain point)

Secondly, the activation email never arrived. Checked Cloudflare activity log and nothing – not forwarded, not junked, nothing from you – my email tld is .au (not .com.au) and your site shows it as successfully sent.
I'm doubting the ability to receive notification emails due to this

Managed to sign-in with Google, but then I can't update the email address ????









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OldF@rt

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posted 2026-Jul-31, 9:33 am AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-31, 9:33 am AEST





As we are on Opticomm fibre here, is it possible to separate NBN & fibre deals when searching?









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:01 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:01 pm AEST





O.P.

I sorted the email thing out, thanks for the heads up @JD









User #82192540posts

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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:05 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:05 pm AEST





O.P.

I can try to split out opticomm etc. I need to understand how many independent providers there are first.









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OldF@rt

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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:19 pm AEST



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posted 2026-Jul-31, 1:19 pm AEST





Azimuth Apps writes...

need to understand how many independent providers there are first.

Looks like a number of them out there these days.
netbargains.com.au











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