For channels

You cannot message them.
We can.

Your post reaches whoever opens the channel that afternoon. An alert reaches the people who asked for it, the day it happens, because each of them said yes to that exact sentence.

Publish it

It is one page

No account to open first, nothing to install. You write it and it is up.

The form asks for seven things: the link you want to promote; the name of what is at the other end; what you are announcing, picked from a list; the exact sentence whoever signs up will get; which of your channels it comes from, picked from your confirmed ones; the language your page should be read in; and the word you want in your address. It shows you that address as you type it.

Until you have confirmed a channel, your alerts publish as a guest: the page works, it takes signups and it has its own address, only with no name in front of it. Confirming one is a word pasted in its description, and it is what puts your name, your picture and your address on everything you publish after that.

Your email is asked for at the end, when the alert is already written: we send you a six-digit code, you are in, and that is your account. No password to invent and none to forget. What you wrote is kept while you go and fetch the code.

Publish an alert

Link to the offer

https://

What it is

Sony WH-1000XM5

The alert message

The Sony WH-1000XM5 is down to $249. It has not been this low since March, and last time it lasted two days.

Where this alert comes from

A guest address, with no channel name

Your page will be at

holdout.deals/guest/sony

The check

A person opens your link

Not a crawler. We never read anybody’s site automatically.

Your page is up the moment you send the form, so none of this makes you wait: people can sign up on it and you can publish the link today. What happens next is that somebody here opens your link and looks at it, on every alert, without exception. That is the whole review, and it is two questions:

The sentence goes out in whatever language you wrote it, so the page is asked for separately: you know what your people read, and nothing else here does: at that point your link has not even been opened yet. The last one goes at the foot of the alert, so whoever gets it knows where it came from. It is asked every time and not once, because the same person can run several channels. Answer «nothing» and the alert goes out naming nobody, which is more honest than crediting the channel next door.

Then a person opens your link, not a crawler: we never read anybody’s site automatically. That person checks two things:

That it is affiliate marketing. Something someone can buy.
That it goes where your sentence promises, and that it is one thing somebody can buy.

Where the link lives is not one of them. There is no list of approved shops. Amazon, your own site, a shop nobody has heard of: what it has to pass are those two questions and the rules. Pass, and you can send the alert out whenever the moment comes. Fail, and it is called off: if nobody had signed up you are told why and you fix it, and if people had, they are told it is not coming.

The rules, in full

You hear back by email as soon as somebody has looked at it, and what comes back is two links to the same yes: your alert’s page, and a link that opens the bot straight on the card where people accept.

The page is a landing and it does the explaining for you: what the offer is, how many are already waiting, how any of this works, and a preview carrying the name of what you are offering, so you can drop it anywhere with nothing written around it. The second link explains nothing at all: it opens the bot, shows them the alert and asks them to accept, and that is the whole of it. So it is the one for the post where you have already done the explaining, normally your own channel, where the page would repeat what they just read and charge them a trip to the browser for it. Neither saves them Telegram, our button lands there too: that is where an alert can be sent to one person and nowhere else. Either way they read your sentence and see your link, whole, before they accept, and the page is the only one of the two that counts anything for you.

Holdout <noreply@holdout.deals>

Your alert is checked: Sony WH-1000XM5

✅ Ready. Your alert is checked, so this is the moment to publish it: the page opens, the card carries your channel, and the bot lets people sign up.

Your alert has a page:
https://holdout.deals/chollos100x100/sony

And this one skips the page: it opens the bot in Telegram, where they read the alert and agree to be sent it.
https://t.me/HoldoutDealsBot?start=l7f3c9a21b4e05d68

Open them both yourself before you decide. Ten seconds, and the difference is plain to see. Which you hand out depends on who does the explaining. The page does it for you; the second link does not. So: the second where your own post has already sold the offer, the page anywhere the link has to speak for itself. Only the page counts opens and clicks for you.

«The Sony WH-1000XM5 is down to $249.»

When the day comes, send it out from holdout.deals/account/alerts. You will see there how many people are waiting and how many have opened your page.

Then you wait

That is the hard part done

You have your links. Everything after this is two buttons.

Put your link where your people already are: the channel, a post, your own site, the description of a video. From here Holdout does the waiting for you: the page shows your sentence, counts the opens and the clicks, and every person who says yes is one more who can be told, privately, the day it happens.

There is nothing else to keep up with. Whenever you come back, weeks later, you are the one who decides, and it ends one of two ways:

/fire You say when The moment arrives. It goes out to everyone waiting, privately, once. How sending works /cancel Or it never happens The offer dies first. Nobody is left waiting for something that is not coming. How calling off works

How it works for you

What does it cost?: Nothing. Not now and not later: sending your alerts to your own people is free and stays free. What we will charge for one day is something else entirely: a paid ranking of channels, so people looking for deals find you. Neither you nor your audience is the product.
How many alerts can I have?: As many as you like; there is no quota. Each link is one alert and it closes the moment it goes out. Sending the same link twice does not make a second one: it is the same alert, at the same address.
What language will my alert go out in?: Your sentence goes out exactly as you wrote it: we never translate it. What is translated is everything around it: the footer that says who it comes from and how to stop, and anything the bot says. That goes in the reader’s language: what they have told us, else what Telegram says their phone is set to, else yours, else English. Today we speak English and Spanish.
Can I correct one, or take it back?: If we did not pass it, yes: send the same link again with a better sentence and it goes back in the queue. Once it is approved the sentence is frozen, because that is the one people said yes to.
Do I have to publish on Telegram?: No. Your Holdout link goes wherever you like: a channel, a post, your own site, the description of a video. Telegram is only where the alert lands, because that is where somebody can say yes and be written to once.

What we will never do

Will you sell the people who sign up?: No, and there will never be an auction. Whoever signs up through your link is yours, free, always. The ranking we will charge for one day sells a position on a board, never a person.
Will you write to them yourselves?: Never on our own account. One sign-up produces one message, the one they read before accepting, and nothing else ever. Once it has been delivered, if they are not waiting for anything else, we delete them: what is left behind leads to nobody.
Will anyone see who signed up?: Only how many. The page shows a count and nothing else: no names, no list, not for you and not for anyone. We could not show more if we wanted to: what we hold is a Telegram id, and it goes when the alert has been delivered.
Will you wrap my link to count clicks?: Not the one that reaches them: it goes out untouched, with your tag, never wrapped in anything of ours, so we do not know whether anybody clicked it. On your Holdout page we do count opens and clicks: plain numbers, no cookie, no address, nobody attached to them. That is what tells you whether the page is working.
Will you rewrite what I wrote?: What we approved is what goes out, word for word, and not even you can change it afterwards, which is the whole point of somebody having checked it. We open your link once, at review, and we never read anybody’s site automatically after that.

Two minutes on Telegram and your first alert is in review.