Chad got an Android phone a while back and launched this sweet Gear Burger Android app the other day. It gives you all the live deals straight to your ‘Droid phone. Check it!
Gear Burger Android App
January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Gear Burger 4.0: Product Following and Live Deals
August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Version 4.0 is up with the ability to follow specific products and a Live Deals page showing all live deals we’re seeing. The product pages should be very interesting data sources for folks looking for specific products. We list all pricing history for products that we have history for – if there is no pricing history none will be shown. All ~25k products can be found through the catalog link in the header navigation. The live deals page is also in the header nav and has an RSS feed. We are super psyched with these features and hope you will be too. The first thing I did after we launched this feature was to follow the Pontoons. Deal counter at 17,000 as I type this…huzzah!
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Launched.
August 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
After a several months of beta testing, Gear Burger launched to the public today without a hitch. We”re psyched with where the product is today and have some cool ideas in the pipeline that will be launching soon. As always, let us know how we can improve!
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V3 + Deal Counter: Ready for Launch
August 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We’ve been cranking on a new version that includes a simplified signup process which auto-filters brands based on your category suggestions. We”ve also improved a bunch of styling around the site and added The Deal Counter to the signup flow. The Deal Counter indicates the number of deals Gear Burger has seen. It’’s currently at ~9100 and climbing fast! We”re going to officially launch this week and will remove the browser password protection then. Until then you”ll need to use the access creditials you were given to first access the site when you see the whitescreen + browser login box. Thanks again for your feedback and support!
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Tagged: deal counter, signup process
New design! New mascot!
July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We’re psyched to have launched our new site design and mascot. We have no idea what it is but we love it just the same. We also added a nifty feedback tab so we can fit in with in Web 3.0 crew. Let us know what you think!
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Gear Burger 2.0 = Live
July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
After lots of hard work and some serious re-tooling based on our first batch of users” feedback, Gear Burger 2.0 is live and ready for testing. The site will be getting an extreme makeover and new mascot shortly as well.
New in 2.0:
- New signup process which collects brand and product type preferences will improve our match quality;
- A “block product” feature will be very useful for blocking repeat items that you aren”t interested in seeing again;
- Alert scheduling allows for scheduling alert delivery only within optimal times and prevent overnight inbox assaults; and
- A missed deal page which becomes the landing page for an alert click when a deal has been missed and displays similar deals on the web.
We hope these features will improve the quality of the service and make it more useful generally. Let us know what you think!
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Baby steps…
June 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Gear Burger has been live for approximately 9 days and we’ve been pumping out tweaks and improvements daily. We’ve only let in a very small number of users and have already been able to massively improve our processes based on just a little bit of user data. Apologies to those of you who may have gotten a few extra emails along the way…you can be sure that you have gained Burger Karma by helping us! We”re getting ready to add a few more users into the system. Please keep your access credentials private as we”re trying to keep things under control. As always, send any and all feedback our way and let us know what we can do to make the service more useful for you.
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Get great dear deals emailed to you as they happen
May 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We’re very excited about the beta launch of Gear Burger and The Menu. Gear Burger is our technology platform that will keep you updated about deals that our system sees on the web. The Menu is the voice of Gear Burger. Here we’ll keep you in the loop about changes to Gear Burger technology and keep you informed about gear deals going down that Gear Burger might not be able to see. This first version of Gear Burger is processing deals from six deal-at-a-time sites: Steep and Cheap, Brociety, Whiskey Militia, Chainlove, Bonktown, and Tramdock. Steep and Cheap has products across all gear genres, Brociety is focused on snowboarding, Whiskey Militia is all surf and skate, Tramdock covers skiing, and Bonktown and Chainlove focus on cycling.
If you’re at all familiar with these sites, you know just how many deals come up on them every day and how fast the good ones are gone. Across these six sites alone there are hundreds of deals every day. Our platform catches new deals as soon as they’re live and alerts you instantaneously. The system is based on keywords so you have complete control over how many alerts you get. Use broad terms to get more alerts (e.g. “snowboard”, “ski”, etc.) and more narrow keywords for more precise results (e.g. “pontoon”, “camelbak”, etc.).
Also, please note that Gear Burger and The Menu are very much a beta versions. This means that there will certainly be hiccups along the way and we apologize in advance for any inconvience they may cause you. We hope you’ll stick with us through thick and thin and you can be sure that at the end of the day, we”re trying to help get you great gear deals, plain and simple.
Your feedback is going to be incredibly valuable for us to hear. It will shape the direction we go with future development.
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