About Yipit
What is Yipit?
Yipit aggregates and recommends the best daily deals in your city.
We collect all the great daily deals from 806 services including Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt City, Tippr, Yelp and many more.
We recommend the best of the daily deals to our users based on the preferences they have expressed to us.
We're available in 118 cities including Akron/Canton , Albany , Allentown/Reading , Atlanta , Augusta , Austin , Baltimore , Baton Rouge , Birmingham , Boise , Boston , Buffalo , Calgary , Cedar Rapids / Iowa City , Central Jersey , Charleston , Charlotte , Chicago , Cincinnati , Cleveland , Colorado Springs , Columbia, SC , Columbus , Dallas , Dayton , Denver , Des Moines , Detroit , Edmonton , El Paso , Fort Collins , Fort Lauderdale , Fort Myers / Cape Coral , Fresno , Grand Rapids , Green Bay , Greenville , Halifax, Nova Scotia , Hampton Roads , Harrisburg / Lancaster , Hartford , Honolulu , Houston , Huntsville , Indianapolis , Jacksonville , Kansas City , Kitchener - Waterloo , Knoxville , Las Vegas , Lexington , London, Canada , Los Angeles , Louisville , Lubbock , Madison , Memphis , Miami , Milwaukee , Minneapolis , Mississauga , Montreal , Nashville , New Orleans , New York , North Jersey , Oakland , Ocala , Oklahoma City , Omaha , Orange County , Orlando , Ottawa , Palm Beach , Palm Springs , Philadelphia , Phoenix , Piedmont Triad , Pittsburgh , Portland , Portland, ME , Providence , Raleigh-Durham , Reno , Richmond , Rochester , Sacramento , Salem OR , Salt Lake City , San Antonio , San Diego , San Fernando Valley , San Francisco , San Jose , Santa Barbara , Santa Cruz , Seattle , Shreveport/Bossier , South Bend , South Jersey , Spokane , Springfield, MA , Springfield, MO , St. Louis , Stockton , Syracuse , Tallahassee , Tampa St Petersburg , Toledo , Toronto , Tucson , Tulsa , Vancouver , Victoria , Washington DC , Wilmington-Newark , Winnipeg and Worcester .
We also offer Yipit Nation which recommends the best deals available to everyone regardless of where they live.
We've received some terrific press from TechCrunch, NYC Recession Diary, The Chicago Tribune, Screenwerk, The New York Times, and CNET.
Do you have an API?
The Yipit API enables developers to build applications on top of the Yipit platform. For more information, see our API section.
Do you blog about the daily deal industry?
We're huge fans of the daily deal space, and write occasional thoughts on the industry in the Yipit Blog.
Can you tell me a little bit about what's underneath the hood at Yipit?
We love technology at Yipit because without it, where would we be? Aside from that, it's just fun to 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.
If you want to learn more about what we're up to tech-wise, check out the Yipit Tech Blog.
