Bumped is a new app that gives you free stock when you spend with the brands you love. Download the Bumped app, set up your account, and you’ll have access to hundreds of ways to earn free stock rewards! You choose the stock you want to be rewarded in, then you choose where you want to shop. Then Bumped turns your everyday spending into fractional shares of stock.
Hey Product Hunters. I’m so excited to introduce Bumped to you all today.
I founded Bumped on my belief that everyone deserves to be an owner. That everyone can participate in — and hopefully benefit from — ownership in the stock market.
To me, ownership means having a stake in the brands you care about. It’s a show of support for the companies you want to do well and succeed. Ownership is standing with the companies that matter most to you.
So, while today about only 50% of Americans invest in the stock market (even with great work from the tech and finance industries to make investing more accessible), I hope that giving customers fractional shares of stock for spending with the brands they love can change the number.
Can’t wait to hear what you think. My team and I will be around and happy to answer any questions you have.
@tangonelsen cool idea - I'm interested in trying it out. What is the current wait time for getting early access? How quickly are you all creating relationships with other brands?
@tayrob5 With regards to the brands, we are in conversations as we speak. We don't have a ton of control over their timelines, but I'm happy about the conversations in motion and happy about the 19 that we do have going into the beta. With regards to early access, we look forward to extending access beyond our internal team within weeks not months. We also reserved the first couple thousand spots for our top referrers so they get in earlier. After that we will bring folks in with incrementally larger batches as we test and scale.
@tangonelsen Awesome! Excited to see who else in the industry agrees to partner. Any chance I could get in now to start using and providing early feedback?
@tayrob5 Right now we have things focused on internal team members to ensure we create a delightful experience for customers. If you signed up on the waitlist today, you are likely going to be among the first as we open up things. Thanks so much by the way!
Great way to get people into investing and build brand loyalty. My question is how to handle privately owned or local shops? Is there potential for smaller players to get involved if they aren't publicly traded? Something like the REI Co-op model?
@storybulbs We care about the small merchant businesses and are working on a solution for that. For now the focus is on the big brands as it is easier to scale across 400 names than it is 400,000 small merchant businesses. In regards to REI - it is funny you should mention that one; we use them as an example in the office of a brand that already has some of these principles in place. The way they look at membership, allow members to vote for Board Position, return a rebate check - all of these things show why the Co-op model can create a brand with a loyal following.
@jimmydouglas Thank you Jimmy - really appreciated. I'm equally excited to see how this effects the way consumers look at the brands they support. I have the feeling it will make people think twice as they spend. The primary question being - is this a company I want to own equity in? Interestingly, I've often used the example - imagine getting a share of Tesla when you lease the car. Its about bringing the customer into the brand's story - the brands that do will only extend the strength of their loyal following.
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