DiscountHub

Twenty days ago, I updated the DiscountHub backend and started tracking outbound clicks more accurately.

Today I checked the production database and found that users have clicked through from DiscountHub to external stores and partner offers 537 times.

The breakdown:

• 339 clicks on product discounts and deal listings

• 151 clicks on promo codes

• 47 clicks on special partner offers

These are not confirmed purchases, but they are still meaningful to me.

It shows that people are not only visiting DiscountHub. They are finding an offer interesting enough to open the original store and continue shopping.

DiscountHub is still an early-stage project, built without a large marketing budget, so 537 real outbound actions in 20 days feels like a good sign that the core idea is working.

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Today was one of those days when the entire product moved forward

I started the day planning to review a few new affiliate partners and investigate whether DiscountHub could support country-based filtering.

It turned into one of our biggest shipping days so far.

Here’s what we completed:

🌍 Country filters across the platform

Users can now filter deals and promo codes by country.

This wasn’t just a dropdown added to the UI. We implemented the full flow across the backend, website, and Flutter app, including country facets and saved country selection between pages.

We also improved the search logic so the system can understand the difference between:

• “Show me laptops from eBay Germany”

• “Show me eBay laptops that ship to Germany”

They sound similar, but they represent two different filters.

🤖 AI Deal Finder is now part of the product

We enabled our AI assistant on the production backend and added a dedicated AI Deal Finder experience.

Users can ask for products, discounts, promo codes, or partner offers in natural language without creating an account.

We also added the AI section to the website navigation, updated the homepage messaging, created a dedicated AI page, and included it in the sitemap.

📱 Major Flutter app update

The mobile app now includes:

• Country filtering for deals

• Country filtering for promotions

• AI Deal Finder

• Updated home navigation

• Saved country preferences

• Improvements to promotions, settings, and loading states

The new mobile version is 1.0.6+33.

The Android release bundle was built successfully, committed, and pushed to GitHub.

⬇️ Direct Android download

Until the Google Play release is fully available, users can now download the signed Android APK directly from the DiscountHub website.

The website no longer says “Android coming soon.” It now properly presents DiscountHub as available on the web, iOS, and Android.

🤝 New exclusive partner offers

We also added two new offers:

• ShakespeareAI — 50% off all plans for the first three months with the DiscountHub code

The ShakespeareAI offer automatically expires after September 20, so outdated offers won’t remain visible indefinitely.

🔒 Stricter partner validation

We tightened our affiliate-provider validation rules.

Only joined, approved, active, or accepted partners can now be imported. Pending, rejected, suspended, closed, or non-joined partners are blocked automatically.

This should prevent invalid advertisers from silently entering the catalogue.

✅ Production verification

After deployment, we verified:

• Backend syntax and configuration

• Production API health

• AI availability

• Country filtering

• Website content

• Country preference persistence

• Deals and promotions pages

• Android release output

• GitHub synchronization

Everything is running in production.

We also started preparing the updated iOS build and new App Store screenshots.

It’s easy to feel like progress is slow when you’re building mostly alone. Then you get a day like this and realize the product is completely different from where it was that morning.

Have you ever had a “small task” unexpectedly turn into one of your most productive shipping days?

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A new DiscountHub progress update.

I’ve been building DiscountHub as a solo founder, and the platform has now reached a much more complete stage than the original version.

Here is what is working today:

• 35 partner stores and brands

• 4 independent developer partners with their own special offers

• A working website and iOS application

• Dedicated pages for deals, promo codes, partner offers, and stores

• An AI assistant that helps users find relevant offers inside DiscountHub

• Automatic filtering and removal of outdated or low-quality offers

• Direct access to offers without requiring users to create an account

The AI assistant is connected to DiscountHub’s own content. Users can describe what they are looking for, and it searches through the available deals, promo codes, and offers instead of acting like a generic chatbot.

I have also spent a lot of time improving the structure of the website. The store directory, deal pages, promo-code pages, partner section, legal pages, and mobile download pages are now working properly.

The product itself is becoming stable. The biggest challenge now is distribution: bringing more users to the platform and proving that DiscountHub can generate real value for its partners.

My next priorities are:

• Growing traffic and active users

• Adding more direct partnerships

• Working with creators and online communities

• Improving offer quality and freshness

• Continuing development of the mobile experience

DiscountHub is still bootstrapped, but it is no longer just an early prototype. It is a functioning platform with real partners, real offers, and a clear direction.

You can check it here:

https://discounthub.uz

For founders who have reached this stage: what would you prioritize next — SEO, creators, community partnerships, or direct outreach to stores?

Today I shipped one of the biggest updates to DiscountHub so far: AI Finder.

Until now, users mainly discovered deals, promo codes and partner offers by browsing categories and filters. With AI Finder, they can simply describe what they need in natural language — for example, “wireless headphones under $50” — and receive matching live offers from the DiscountHub database.

I built the new conversational interface, structured result cards and database-grounded search as a solo founder using GPT-5.6.

DiscountHub AI Finder is now participating in OpenAI Day on Product Hunt. I’d genuinely appreciate your support, feedback or a comment on the launch:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/discounthub?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

You can also try DiscountHub here:

https://discounthub.uz

I’d especially like to know whether the AI results feel relevant and what you would expect an AI shopping assistant to do next.

Over the past few months, I’ve been building DiscountHub — a platform for discovering deals, promo codes and special offers through a website and mobile app.

The product is already live.

We have built the backend, the website, the mobile experience, partner integrations, deal discovery, promo-code pages and a growing catalogue of offers.

But building the technology is only one part of the challenge.

The next stage requires someone who deeply understands how shoppers discover deals, which offers they trust, what content makes them take action, and how to build a real community around saving money.

So I’m now looking for a long-term growth partner or co-founder.

Ideally, this person would have experience in one or more of these areas:

• Deals, coupons or smart-shopping content

• Creator or influencer partnerships

• Consumer growth in the US or UK

• Building communities around shopping or personal finance

• Content distribution across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit or email

This is not a freelance role, and I’m not looking for someone to simply publish a few sponsored posts.

I’m looking for someone who wants to help shape the product, lead our growth and creator strategy, and build DiscountHub alongside me for the long term.

The technology and platform already exist. I will continue leading product and engineering.

The right partner would take real ownership of growth, positioning, audience development and the shopper experience.

Meaningful equity is available depending on the person’s role, commitment and long-term contribution.

I’m particularly interested in speaking with:

• Creators who have already built an audience around deals or saving money

• Growth operators who understand consumer marketplaces

• Founders who previously built something in coupons, cashback, affiliate commerce or shopping discovery

• People based in, or deeply familiar with, the US or UK market

I know finding the right co-founder is not something that should be rushed. I’m more interested in finding the right person than filling the role quickly.

If this sounds relevant to you — or someone in your network — feel free to message me privately or email me at:

ulugbek@discounthub.uz

DiscountHub:

https://discounthub.uz

Today I added a new lifetime deal to DiscountHub from StatusPage.me.

The offer has no fixed expiration date and no coupon code. The 15% discount is applied automatically, and the deal remains available only until all 70 licenses are sold.

That created a small but important product problem:

How do you automatically remove an offer when it ends if there is no expiration date?

My first solution was simple:

• check the partner page every hour;

• look for “sold out” or “0 remaining”;

• automatically set valid_until in the DiscountHub backend.

During testing, the watcher reported that the offer was already sold out.

But the page clearly showed:

69 of 70 licenses remaining.

The problem was that the FAQ contained a sentence explaining what would happen when the deal becomes sold out. My script found those words and treated the live offer as expired.

I changed the logic so it now:

• checks only the actual lifetime-deal section, not the FAQ;

• reads the remaining-license counter;

• requires two consecutive sold-out confirmations;

• never closes the offer after a timeout, HTTP error, or unexpected page change;

• updates the backend only after a confirmed expiration.

The watcher now runs every hour on the server, and DiscountHub will automatically hide the offer once the licenses are actually gone.

This was a good reminder that automation should not only detect the expected condition. It also needs protection against false positives.

A missed expiration is inconvenient.

Automatically removing a valid partner offer is worse.

How do you handle offers or inventory that expire based on availability rather than a fixed date?