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ShareDeals - Share a good Deal with your friends

Submitted by: Ybother
Created: May 14, 2008, 4:40 pm

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The Idea

For people who are exicited about their new purchase

ShareDeals is a mobile application/sms tool

that allows you to share your new purchase with your friends/ people nearby/ people with the same demographic

I thought of this idea when I was...

i bought a new piece of apprarel at a great discount price and i wanted to share it with people nearby

Comments Posted

vanhees Posted: May 17, 2008, 1:20 pm

mail to all contacts???

x_DaveH Posted: May 20, 2008, 7:33 am

How will you prevent spammers?

PhilipH Posted: May 20, 2008, 1:42 pm

In what format would I get such an alert? What information will be contained?

More importantly, will I be able to select the sort of deal I'm interested in?

micco Posted: May 20, 2008, 1:47 pm

This sounds like twitter where you automatically receive tweets from people in a certain geographic area rather than just people you've added to your list.

scrollinondubs Posted: May 20, 2008, 10:57 pm

revenue model? how is this not just a hashtag in Twitter? not seeing this one...

Daan Posted: May 21, 2008, 1:55 am

I wouldn't want to know which thing which friend bought at any time...
If you want people to know what you've bought, put it on your nickname in messenger, on your wall on facebook, a pic of the product in your space,...
See if it 'd make you popular... :-)

JelmerBV Posted: May 21, 2008, 7:52 am

Where can I unsubscribe?
I don't want more spam in my inbox.
I'll just tell someone when I've found something cool.

Ybother Posted: May 21, 2008, 4:11 pm

The format will probably in SMS form where users can rate it as spam. As for recieving relevant sms, I guess the system can match what you are interested in base don your profile, your listed interests and any topics that you have actually viewed before.

Unsubscribing should be easy. You can turn off sms notifications in your profile.

Brenden Posted: May 22, 2008, 10:07 am

headofideas Posted: May 27, 2008, 10:42 pm

Will you have stores that will offer an affiliate commission, if one of your friends buys their product(s)?

Kevin_Cox Posted: May 28, 2008, 11:13 am

http://twitter.com/

lrx1971 Posted: May 30, 2008, 1:02 pm

isn't this how Craiglist got its start? Maybe not deals, but events and such, right? Think through it more, I think you're on to something.

ideabreaker Posted: May 30, 2008, 7:46 pm

Youtube started out as a failed dating site. Maybe this one has legs. I can see it now, "the founders of failed startup sharedeals closes 30 million dollar series A round for it's new OS based upon logistical data consolidation as outlined by Dr. Spock" In all truthfulness, I piss off enough friends just yammering on about my new this, that or the other without sending them tedious text messages.

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