About Yipit
The smartest way to use daily deals.
We gather over 30,000 offers per month from 829 daily deal sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt City, Google Offers and filter them based on where you are and what you like.
You tell us what you want (and what you don’t), and we’ll send you the nearby offers that match. Yipit is a simple way to access them all - via web, a personalized email or iPhone - in 118 cities in North America.
Our Vision
Daily deals are just the beginning. Yipit is becoming a better way to buy goods and services in your city.
As our industry grows, you will be able to shop more and more of your city online -- and get 50 to 90% off. It’s our job to help you navigate these ever expanding local offers in a simple and personalized way.
Our Team
We’ve become a leader in the daily deal space without spending a dollar in advertising or hiring a single salesperson. We’re the technology layer in local e-commerce, built by a team of engineers, designers and product people.
We work with all the latest software and work with it at scale. 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 a 9 machine sharded MongoDB 2.0 setup. 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 11.10 right now.
Explore
Learn more about Yipit by visiting our team page, our engineering blog, our data business and our API.