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Thank you for the response. Actually I also don't see it as "massive" thing, small niche is fine, especially if you fit well into it :) But despite that, I'm interested why do you see it in that way? Because the type of content? Or because the way of consuming content in such way? Or both? :)

I would greatly appreciate it if you kindly give me some short feedback and your first impressions: is it clear what about is this website from the first sight? Does it look useful tool for you? And if you just closed your browser tab thinking "pfff nothing useful" - what's the main reason of this? I'm really open to criticism, don't hesitate :) Thank You

Hmm nice idea. Could be useful to keep your eye on some upcoming stuff. I see that news are "Trending" and "Recent" - how do you determine which news articles are trending?

In fact yes. But its the same with every new service or? Also "sell to businessess" is not really correct wording... why? Because after you register on spoffer and subscribe to some channels (businesses) spoffer itself is the only one "entry point" to you for businesses. They don't get your email or social network access and you don't risk to get spam there later on.

Not yet. The idea is to have it globally, but for now only some well known US brand names are covered. But your question is about different markets, its impossible to launch such kind (business to people) of website in all over the World at once :) But theoretically - yes, of course its for you in case there will be a lot of Australian retailers, service providers and etc. publishing their offers.

Agree. The idea is to have all notifications configurable, only "silent" notification which is visibile when you connect to website or app, email notification on/off, mobile app notification on/off - for example if you're preparing for your new skying season and want to buy some new equipment, maybe its not so annoying to get push notifications from www.dickssportinggoods.com about great sale of winter goods?

RedFlagDeals like others (slickdeals.net, dealspl.us and etc.) are quite different - there are community found and posted deals with some

"premium/partners" ads mixed. Spoffer works in a different way - people get deals and offers directly from businesses. Business channel on

spoffer is smth like business Facebook fan page, but entire solution is dedicated to special offers without any noise and with all necessary

tools for businesses (offers editor, analytics) and for people who want to discover offers as well. Also it could be treated as new generation

marketing channel which is a bit similar to email marketing, but businesses are collecting spoffer subscribers instead of email addresses and

other side - people, are getting these offers to their offers stream instead of email box.

Well in case that its advertising platform there are a lot of different monetizing ways like pay per click (pays business), "staff recommended"

offers which pops to the top and are "more visible" than others, or some pricing scheme with "pay as you go", "monthly subscription" and etc.

Yes the main idea is that after you subscribe to businesses you're interested in you are able to access your offers stream in several ways: of course you get notification emails about new offers from businesses you're subscribed if you want to get it (there will be settings for that because idea behind of that is that EMAIL IS NOT FOR SUCH THINGS LIKE SPECIAL OFFERS:) ) also there will be push notifications in mobile apps about new offers you're interested in (subscribed) and maybe you want to visit spoffer directly to see "whats new" like you do with your Facebook social news stream? :)

Looks like fixed, should be fine now :)

Ups sorry I see... looks like a bug, i'm on it already, could you please use username: demo and password: demo123 at meantime? Thanks!

Some more links for those are interested:

http://www.spoffer.net/help/about - short explainer how it works

http://www.spoffer.net/help/business - explainer how it works for business

http://editor.spoffer.net/edit (user: demo, pwd: demo123) - see drag&drop offers editor in action

Don't want to describe this project anymore there and i hope that links above are quite explanatory, but if you have some question - welcome, I'll gladly answer.

This is one-man-army project. Idea born in my head few years ago and I started brainstorming and developing at odd moments. It took so long because I was creating it alone, and in case that I'm developer some parts took quite much time like layouting and creating design, I had a feeling "how it should look" but didn't have desire to hire expensive designer or so, in case that it was not designed to "earn money" from the start and was more like hobby :) So finally it looks more or less how I imagined it, but... I understand that not everything is fine... I understand that i need solve chicken-egg problem: no business wants to publish offers if there is no quite big community, and how to get community when there is no bussiness publishing offers... I have a plan how to solve it, but i think I'll need some cooworkers/coofounders for that at least marketing expert and designer at first - if you feel that you would like to take a part there please contact me gintaras[eta]spoffer.net

And of course I'm waiting for any kind of response, please write what is your first impression when visiting this website? What do you think about such approach in general? How does desing look for you? Whats is missing, what are the main drawbacks from the first sight?

Thank you very much!

Sure, will try this. Thank you!