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Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by gaustin »

babyshake wrote: post #18
gaustin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Personally, I think there's a more interesting market opportunity in helping developers monetize from the daily deals space, rather than making a daily deals product meant for developers as end-users. Things like a marketplace for matching deals to sites or a "Shopify" for coupon sites?

Maybe something like a Shopify, although those are unsurprisingly starting to spring up left and right. I'm thinking more of something like building a nice, consistent cross-platform API for deals. Unfortunately, sites like Groupon have draconian developer terms of service ( http://www.groupon.com/pages/api-terms-of-use ). Basically, what they're saying is that you can show Groupon deals to end-users, but you can't d…

Holy smokes, that's worse than my employment agreement (but not by much).

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Post by noahkagan »

aresant wrote: post #10

AppSumo has shown that there's definitely interest in this area. This is so flippin' easy to build that it comes down to this - are you passionate about it? If you are, and you can dedicate a year to seeing it through, you will build a nice business out of it. If you expand your "hacker" definition to include the audience that buys gifts @ ThinkGeek.com you could be on to something big. When I say this is easy here's…

Hey guys

Noah from http://appsumo.com here.

Super interesting comments and a bit surprised / flattered so many of you guys know about us.

We're focused mostly on web software, generally web apps / content that help startups succeed.

What kind of specific stuff is it for hackers that we aren't providing today?

Ps. We have an HN Special - free Thinkgeek.com coupon ($10 off $40)

Email me: hn at appsumo dot com

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by yeojw »

This is definitely an awesome concept, which has been tested by AppSumo. However, there are more aspects of "hacking" that you can explore - books, conference tickets, software discounts and membership discounts (can only think of http://tutsplus.com). I would be interested if you are able to offer deals on tickets for technology conferences.

A technology-focused Groupon is something that I would love to see.

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by solost »

I took the survey but I wanted to share this thought here for some additional feedback. I work with some of the larger deals sites and having learned a lot about how they operate I cannot stress enough that if you are going to move into a niche market focus on value. This means potentially less deals and less often but in the case of your audience being focused on hackers, quality will win.

In the survey you offered time with Investors. This is something that I am sure would be in massive demand because this isn't something readily available to most people and could add tremendous value to any start up.

Other things to consider along the same lines would be a service less focused on regular deals but more on opportunities. We have access to Consultants who do x,y, or z. They could be investors, marketers, hackers, business develop folks or any other high value service. You would make those people available to a business for say 1 hour to discuss anything you care to. Now that would exciting!

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Post by thaumaturgy »

DealsForHackers wrote: post #2

HIGH LEVEL PITCH: DealsForHackers.com is a daily deals site for the hacker / startup crowd. (Groupon meets TechCrunch). This is a concept I'm taking a pure Customer Development approach with - if I get enough people to say that they'd be interested in the concept, I'll move forward to the prototyping / initial deal gathering phase. Why the new / anonymous account? My boss and co-workers read HackerNews constantly, an…

I like the idea, but ...

When did "hacker" come to mean, "someone who wants dinner with moneymen and books on success"?

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by fixie »

Kudos for doing research before diving in. If it sounds like there is enough interest, one option could be to use a whitelabel daily deals service like Tippr.com. Although it is tempting to hack together a groupon-clone, in the end the software on the consumer end is generally the easy part when building a basic daily deal site. The time consuming part is everything that goes on behind the scenes. The support, writing, deal scheduling, deal sourcing, affiliate marketing, reporting tools, etc. This stuff often gets overlooked when creating a deal site. Tippr can handle as much of this overhead as you need which allows you to focus on marketing and helping source deals for your niche. If you are curious how the end white-label product looks, we've recently launched a white-label with BusinessInsider that they call Pipeline Deals (http://pipeline.businessinsider.com). This site runs similar types of deals - except targeted for business folk instead of hackers.

Disclosure: I'm a designer at Tippr. If you want to learn more, I can get you in touch with one of the business people.

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by DealsForHackers »

fixie wrote: post #26

Kudos for doing research before diving in. If it sounds like there is enough interest, one option could be to use a whitelabel daily deals service like Tippr.com. Although it is tempting to hack together a groupon-clone, in the end the software on the consumer end is generally the easy part when building a basic daily deal site. The time consuming part is everything that goes on behind the scenes. The support, writin…

Thanks, I appreciate the offer. Email me at dealsforhackers@gmail.com to talk further.

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by DealsForHackers »

solost wrote: post #24

I took the survey but I wanted to share this thought here for some additional feedback. I work with some of the larger deals sites and having learned a lot about how they operate I cannot stress enough that if you are going to move into a niche market focus on value. This means potentially less deals and less often but in the case of your audience being focused on hackers, quality will win. In the survey you offered…

Great idea regarding the consultants. I'm sure there are a ton of consultants who would be happy to work with startups for cheap, in order to build long-term relationships.

Fantastic idea!

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by DealsForHackers »

zach wrote: post #9

What would really be valuable and popular would be if you could find a way for us to get a group discount on these $80-$100 books that are priced as textbooks. There is a huge amount of pent-up demand there. Take the extreme but famous example of when one of those books, Lisp in Small Pieces, was mispriced for $13 including shipping at amazon.ca in 2007 -- it became the #1 seller, on a book that I imagine sells maybe…

What about "International Edition" textbooks? For example, the site could offer an international edition of a textbook for 1/10 the cost of the US edition. The International Edition textbooks are paperback, and of lower quality, but contain the same information, and are MUCH cheaper.

What do you think?

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by DealsForHackers »

yeojw wrote: post #23

This is definitely an awesome concept, which has been tested by AppSumo. However, there are more aspects of "hacking" that you can explore - books, conference tickets, software discounts and membership discounts (can only think of http://tutsplus.com ). I would be interested if you are able to offer deals on tickets for technology conferences. A technology-focused Groupon is something that I would love to see.

Discounts on technology conferences would be huge. Great idea - thanks!
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