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Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by splish »

jh3 wrote: post #4

When you select the state you're in, a city is automatically "selected" in the final drop down box. I was kind of expecting the page to automatically reload with the deals around the city it chose. You need to actually reselect the city to have the page refresh, though. Instead of having the city automatically selected, maybe have it say "Choose a city." Or have the the page refresh right away for the default city se…

Bug:

Select United States

Select District of Columbia

There is no option in the final dropdown since the final location is in the second dropdown there can be no third selection option. Because of this the page never loads the deals for USA, DC.

Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by duck »

theBeast wrote: post #10
duck wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, that confused me too. Also, I would make the default USA.

But it would make sense to be Canada, seeing as it initially all started with dealpage.ca only based out of a few cities major cities in Canada. Just recently it was updated to handle a lot more cities within NA

I think I would look at the traffic and whichever is highest be the default. Since it was posted on HN, in general, traffic will be predominantly from the states.

Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by splish »

mgkimsal wrote: post #3

"love deals, hate email?" then the first thing hitting me is a dialog to enter my email? Messaging seems disjointed.

If the screen presented in the lightbox when the page loads is critical enough that it needs to happen every time any user visits the homepage, then perhaps consider incorporating it onto the page itself as the first thing users see when they land on 'home'.

The forced interaction of requiring a user to make an additional click on the 'x' to move on to anywhere else on your site is frustrating. (Considering the banner is also ever-present this seems redundant)

Edit: Lightbox also showing up on your About page - it's a bit much at this point.

Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by spulec »

clarke78 wrote: post #13
jsm386 wrote: post #9

What are you guys doing that Yipit doesn't do? Not that there isn't a place for multiple deal aggregators, but they've been doing/refining aggregation for a while.

Yipit isn't in Canada. DealPage seems to be going International.

Yipit is actually in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by wesbos »

splish wrote: post #16
mgkimsal wrote: post #3

"love deals, hate email?" then the first thing hitting me is a dialog to enter my email? Messaging seems disjointed.

If the screen presented in the lightbox when the page loads is critical enough that it needs to happen every time any user visits the homepage, then perhaps consider incorporating it onto the page itself as the first thing users see when they land on 'home'. The forced interaction of requiring a user to make an additional click on the 'x' to move on to anywhere else on your site is frustrating. (Considering the banne…

Thanks for all your feedback - keep it coming.

You can turn off the lightbox by checking the "never show me again" checkbox.

Re: Show HN: DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

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Post by acangiano »

Yzupnick wrote: post #15
acangiano wrote: post #12

huge_ness, this is a great service. Please note however that acangiano+dealpage@gmail.com is a valid email address.

A simple "Your email validation has a bug" would have been sufficient. No need to be condescending.

It was pointing out how annoying broken validations can be, rather than trying to be condescending. Nevertheless, I rephrased it in a nicer way. Thanks.
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