[mrmirz]

Thanks for the detailed feedback.

Yeah, the gaming category is a little bit stale because I've been manually seeding the deals. I figured people on HN would appreciate the category more and that's the only reason I put it there. My goal is to combat that with through automation initially. I recently built out the ability to consume feeds from retailers. I think most of the actual deals are going to come from the merchants themselves and I want to automate that process.

I'm also building out a pretty cool UI that aggregates the merchants and allows you to filter and follow them. The goal is to build a UI that will allow users to follow their favorite merchants or categories and get a personalized visual deal feed as soon as they login.

Like you mentioned, building critical mass will be difficult but I'm hoping that when I have an audience a natural community effort will emerge to identify the best deals and bury the stale or bad ones. The Popular deals link has a simple algorithm that does this already http://www.dealsauce.com/pin/popular I'll probably apply it to all categories instead of using a recency sort.