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It is definitely a saturated space. However, only a few competitors are agnostic to platforms (Splurgy, RaffleCopter, gleam.io, and a few others). Other competitors such as OfferPop, Woobox, Shortstack, and etc... are all Facebook centric which means you cannot embed your contests/giveaways on your website; This means you won't be able to funnel your existing website traffic into your social properties.

Also, MailChimp is not over engineering at all. It's a very key feature. These integrations are important for marketing teams. After people socially engage into these contests/giveaways, their emails are captured and then can be ported into MailChimp where you can run e-mail campaigns.

Co-founder here, I replied to you about oauth.

Integration with ESP's is critical to marketers, as someone mentioned below the key reason people run competitions is to drive sales/engagement with followup. Especially for Ecom.

There's a blog post going up in the next few days from Chris at Vero on this very topic :)

I hear you on the backend demo :) Our frontend is all AngularJS, however the backend isn't. We plan to have a visual drag/drop builder once we do that.

We have most networks integrated from an entry perspective, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (No API currently), SoundCloud & YouTube. We've got Tumblr coming then adding based on demand.

Our Facebook tab solution is 90% completed, we're just testing it currently. Install to Facebook will be in the free plan, on Pro you'll be able to customise the tab/gate images :)

Indeed, this isn't our only product :) But certainly we believe there's room in this space to do things better.

Few differences (we also have a lot of respect for RF, those guys have a great product):

- Verified actions, we verify via API's that users actually complete an entry. You can just bypass this on RF (something I'm sure they're working on).

- API, you can create completely custom entry types on Gleam. Put our API code on your shopping cart, or email signup form & activate an entry. Useful for things like "Add 5 products to your wishlist for an entry, or leave a review for an entry".

- More social network coverage (Instagram, YouTube/Soundcloud)

- More ways to install than just embedding on the page

Looking at rafflecopter, they power plain giveaways. Give me your name, you get the chance to win something. gleam.io seems to be more for competitions where users can do different stuff to get multiple entries. Quite a different product.

RaffleCopter only offers giveaways, and does not have as much features as other competitors such as Splurgy, OfferPop, etc...