If the screen presented in the lightbox when the page loads is critical enough that it needs to happen every time any user visits the homepage, then perhaps consider incorporating it onto the page itself as the first thing users see when they land on 'home'.
The forced interaction of requiring a user to make an additional click on the 'x' to move on to anywhere else on your site is frustrating. (Considering the banner is also ever-present this seems redundant)
Edit: Lightbox also showing up on your About page - it's a bit much at this point.
Guys, this is the first one around of its kinds in the US?
I wonder this because here in brazil, where the group buying came some months after groupon, we already have something like this. Not only this, we have clone of these.
The biggest is www.saveme.com.br. It was already aquired by the biggest internet company in brazil, the buscape.com.br.
I wondered this because the major inovation here in brazil, arent inovation, just some "braziliatization" of US new startups.
When you select the state you're in, a city is automatically "selected" in the final drop down box. I was kind of expecting the page to automatically reload with the deals around the city it chose. You need to actually reselect the city to have the page refresh, though.
Instead of having the city automatically selected, maybe have it say "Choose a city." Or have the the page refresh right away for the default city selection.
I am also not a fan of the fade-in/-out the "DealPage" text does when you hover over it. Mainly due to the fact that you can hover over the text a bunch of times very fast and then have to watch the logo fade from white to black over and over.
Other than those small gripes, the site is very nice visually. Good job!
There is no option in the final dropdown since the final location is in the second dropdown there can be no third selection option. Because of this the page never loads the deals for USA, DC.
But it would make sense to be Canada, seeing as it initially all started with dealpage.ca only based out of a few cities major cities in Canada. Just recently it was updated to handle a lot more cities within NA
I think I would look at the traffic and whichever is highest be the default. Since it was posted on HN, in general, traffic will be predominantly from the states.
It looks great but I just want the data, I would like just text info, to make it as quick and clean as possible. Images and colors are sexy but I want to do a transaction not look at the site. This is my personal weirdness so take it for what it is worth.
I do not know the display requirements for each provider but a clean look, where I can sort by coupon category would be nice. I really don't care about the provider of the deal, just the deal.
That being said it looks like a really good start.
Got rid of the huge deal "provider" / service and made it smaller. Should check out the change: http://dealpage.me Considering your other comments as well.
What are you guys doing that Yipit doesn't do? Not that there isn't a place for multiple deal aggregators, but they've been doing/refining aggregation for a while.
I've seen these guys evolve when they were literally "a page full of deals" (hence DealPage). It'll be interesting to see how things will unravel in this space because I think user experience will be a huge factor in retaining engaged users.
It was pointing out how annoying broken validations can be, rather than trying to be condescending. Nevertheless, I rephrased it in a nicer way. Thanks.