Thu 27 Apr 2006
Hey All,
I am in beta-testing on my new site http://www.dealspy.org and I could really use some help with traffic. Yes, I realize that it is another “deal site” but it is quite a bit different than AT/FW/GD/SD (or really any of the other deal sites out there)
DealSpy.org is a “Hot Deals” site which combines social bookmarking, RSS, and gives editorial control back to the USERS. With DealSpy.org, users submit deals for review, and vote on deals that other users submit. Those deals that receive enough votes from the community are promoted to the front page (rather than one or two editors deciding). YOU DECIDE. This site was influenced by the extremely popular technology site digg.com.
Basically all that boils down to is this: Users submit deals, and others vote on them. The ones that receive enough votes are moved to the main page.
Why is this different? Well think about the RSS implications (RSS of the main page would tell you the HOTTEST deals going on), and the PEOPLE decide what is hot, not the admins. Deal discussion is directly connected to the deal, and it is EXTREMELY easy to find what you are looking for.
I know there are bugs, and I would like help flushing them out. Could you give it a spin and see what you find? Anything you like/dont like? I am in the final stages of the template, so I am working on the few couple bugs left, but I could really use some traffic so I can work out others.
When I launch I plan to have some give aways to users who helped build the site by submitting links & voting on articles.. So you might want to get a head start now! (wink wink)
Thanks!
-Bill (hevnsnt)
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April 27th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
Not Found
The requested URL /story/58/menealo.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at http://www.dealspy.org Port 80
April 28th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Where did you get that error at?
April 28th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
“who voted for this story”
they aren’t really stories, more like deals… but its only a small problem
April 28th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
http://dealspy.org/shakeit.php
I voted for multiple deals, clicked a deal link, came back, none of my votes saved.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Yeah when I vote for a deal, I get the same error as above…
April 30th, 2006 at 8:16 am
I assume that you guys were voting anonymously.. I have found the bug, try again! (thanks)
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:40 am
I was signed in as ‘Xeric’ and I still have this problem. E-mail me at keith at hobbitsholiday.com if you need to hijack my account.