About Us
Yipit aggregates and recommends local daily deals
Your city's top restaurants, bars, spas and shops are offering ridiculous deals on services like Groupon, LivingSocial, Scoop St, HomeRun (and about 90 others). We organize all these deals, then recommend the best ones based on your preferences.
We're available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Diego and San Francisco. You can sign up for your city here.
We've received some terrific press from TechCrunch, NYC Recession Diary, The Chicago Tribune, Screenwerk, The New York Times, and CNET.
Yipit API (Beta)
The Yipit API enables developers to build applications that interact with the Yipit platform. The Yipit API will provide a list of deals at specific business or around a specific latitude and longitude coordinate. The API is NYC only, but we're expanding soon.
We are currently testing the Yipit API with a few partners and will be launching to the public soon. If you would like to learn more about having your service interact with the Yipit platform, email api@yipit.com, and we'll get back to you right away.
The Yipit Team
We are Vin Vacanti and Jim Moran. We used to work on Wall Street but left a few years ago because we wanted to be entrepreneurs. We've been teaching ourselves how to build websites ever since, and even built a few, UnHub and 140it.
Vin Vacanti // Co-Founder
Prior to Yipit, Vin co-founded UnHub and 140it. Earlier, he worked at Quadrangle Group and The Blackstone Group.
Vin graduated from Harvard College in 2003 with a degree in Applied Mathematics focused on Computer Science and Economics. He also served as a teaching fellow for Harvard's Computer Science department for two years.
Email: vin at yipit dot com
Our Thoughts on the Deal Industry
We're huge fans of the daily deal space, and write occasional thoughts on the industry in the Yipit Blog.
Still have questions? You can email us at help at yipit dot com, check out our FAQ, or message us on Twitter: @yipit