About Yipit
Every sale. One place.
Yipit provides instant, insider access to all the best sales on the web and in your city.
If it's on sale, and it's online, it's on Yipit. Whether you’re interested in snagging this season's hottest products at a discount, or finding ways to enjoy your city for less, we're your one-stop shop for quality and savings.
Our Products
Yipit Shop
Yipit Shop brings together sales from today's most desired brands, allowing members to cross-shop the entire e-commerce landscape in one place.
Yipit Local
Yipit Local brings together the best daily deals available in your city from today's most popular deal sites, allowing members to enjoy everything from spas to restaurants to sports games for less.
Our Team
We've helped over a million people without spending a dollar in advertising or hiring a single salesperson. We connect thousands of offers to hundreds of thousands of people on a daily basis.
We're the technology player in our industry, built by a team of engineers, designers and product people. Many of us are also future entrepreneurs, building Yipit into something great and learning valuable startup skills along the way.
Our Technology Stack
We work with all the latest software and work with it at scale.
The core of our systems is actually virtual - it's Amazon Web Services. We use S3 for storage, CloudFront for static content delivery, EBS for core storage, ec2 for instance hosting, ELB for load balancing, Route53 for DNS, ElastiCache (memcached) for caching, and SQS for message queueing.
Our data stores consist of MySQL 5.5 hosted on Amazon's RDS and some Redis machines that maintains our recommendation system. We're experimenting with DynamoDB too.
Our favorite language is Python (2.7) because it allows us to leverage so many great libraries like Celery for queuing, boto for working with AWS, and requests for moving around the web. Of course, we also need a web framework in order to make Python developer friendly (and safe), so we use Django to organize all of our models, views, and controllers.
On the front-end we use jQuery just like everybody else and backbone.js for keeping it all sane. And last but not least, we couldn't do any of this unless we were on the fantastic Ubuntu Linux operating system (well, we could, but Ubuntu is the best). We like staying on the bleeding edge so we're on Ubuntu 12.04 right now.
Explore
Learn more about Yipit by visiting our team page, our engineering blog, our data business and our API.