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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 DealsForHackers »

abyssknight wrote: post #19

I said this on the survey, and it seems that several others agree, but I would love to see more physical things on a daily deals site for hackers. AppSumo is too much SaaS for me, and I have a day job where I don't get to make those purchasing decisions. However, hackable things, books, software -- that I can really get into.

Totally agreed - I think that books will be a big part of the service. Wholesale books aren't too expensive when bought in bulk, and the savings can be passed on to users / customers.

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Post by zach »

DealsForHackers wrote: post #29
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?

I've heard a little about those editions but don't know much about them, so I think you might have some user education necessary. But it sounds great on the whole.

Re: Daily Deals for Hackers - Interested?

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Post by abyssknight »

DealsForHackers wrote: post #29
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?

My understanding is that these are meant for developing nations, and the lower cost is an incentive for inducing education over there. Although it may be cheaper in the short term, in the long term you may be jeopardizing the business model and thus reducing developing nations' ability to obtain textbooks. Just throwing that out there.

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Post by tonystubblebine »

DealsForHackers wrote: post #8
tonystubblebine wrote: post #7

How would this be different than AppSumo?

AppSumo is great, and there would certainly be some crossover between the two services. However, DealsForHackers would focus on a wider range of offerings, beyond just software. Think discounted conference tickets, hardware discounts, hacker food (whatever that means), etc.

The current AppSumo deal* includes fresh underwear delivered monthly. A wider range than that?

* manpacks.com

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Post by seanMeverett »

Hey guys, we actually built this concept the week of Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday.

We built The Evolyte Store in 14 days, spent 1 day marketing, and received nearly 18,000 pageviews and $30,000 in reserved sales.

We were selling a 32GB Wi-Fi iPad at up to $100 off and the business model was like Groupon + Woot had a superhero baby (a little corny, we know :)

You can read our case studies detailing every aspect of the design, development, and marketing process (what my firm specializes in) here:

http://evolyte.posterous.com/pages/the-evolyte-store-case-st...

We're currently trying to figure out what we're going to do with this Store going forward as we only built it to market our professional services, and not to be an eCommerce competitor.

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