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Show HN: CouponHunt – Product Hunt for Coupons and Deals
Community Curated Coupons from your Favorite Retailers. The CouponHunt Community upvotes and comments on the best coupons so that you never miss a great deal again.
- oisin 12y agoHi Guys, We like to think of CouponHunt as Product Hunt for Coupons. Launched over the weekend in time for Black Friday. Would love to hear your feedback.
- rangav 12y agoHi, I am one of the founder of CouponHunt, like to get community feedback on our new site.
- ozh 12y agoregarding the "community curated" aspect: what's the incentive for someone to spend 2 mn adding a coupon to your site?
- oisin 12y agoCommunity spirit is important here. Share coupons and get Kudos from other members, much like Redditors go to the trouble of posting stories and images.
- system_32 12y agoI don't see any real coupons or deals on the front page. I mostly see "up to XX% off" which any real bargain hunter knows is just fluff. The competitors in this space, for me, include slickdeals/fatwallet and blogs that post coupons (printable-coupons-blogspot) that are actually hard to find. My initial reaction is that CouponHunt just shows you what deals you'd see anyway by visiting a store's site.
- oisin 12y agoHi System, take your point, but that is partly because of the proximity to Black Friday. Most of the retailers dispense with coupon codes. We will certainly have loads of coupon codes when applicable.
- semerda 12y agoGoing to be very hard to get real long lasting traction. All these coupons are actually digital coupon codes (affiliate marketing). Very small margins from the affiliates. As a startup you don't have the marketing money to compete with the big boys like coupons.com, retailmenot, fatwallet et al. to get ahead of their listings. The only way this will work is if you have a secret SEO technique and/or exclusive deals with manufacturers. Maybe even explore doing a Chrome plugin so you are always there like "Coupons at Checkout" did.