Groupon launched its service allowing merchants to create their own deals

Maybe you heard “Groupon, which launched its service allowing merchants to create their own deals...” TechCrunch. I think more info coming soon as they still work on the interface (something missing in UI and profiles for sure).

Sh..t merchant store is "my idea" which I had in mind, made some work and applied to YC. I expected Groupon/s go to that direction, as it looks like group buying is in web 1.0 epoch now. I’m talking about merchants’ side. They can’t run and control their deals but “ask” groupon to do that. Now Groupon made step to web 2.0. That is scary for us but not fatal. Our project has a different approach anyway.