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Deals for hackers seems like it could be a good way to start off with a narrow scope and a targetted audience, but by calling your site DealsForHackers you are
by babyshake 16y ago
Deals for hackers seems like it could be a good way to start off with a narrow scope and a targetted audience, but by calling your site DealsForHackers you are essentially limiting yourself from ever growing beyond this relatively small audience.
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.
That having been said, I'm still a hacker and I'm still interested in good deals. Too bad you don't have a field for survey takers to provide our e-mails so you can inform us of when we can use your service.
- gaustin 16y ago> 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?
- babyshake 16y agoMaybe 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 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 do anything else.
- gaustin 16y agoHoly smokes, that's worse than my employment agreement (but not by much).