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CamelCamelCamel had no idea what it was worth, Retailmenot missed the boat, wikibuy can now market itself for 4B to Square or something.

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Funnily enough, Retailmenot sued Honey recently: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/retailmenot-sues-rival-hon...

“ According to RetailMeNot’s suit, Honey infringes on U.S. Patents 9,626,688; 9,639,853; 9,953,335; and 9,965,769, which detail technologies related to things like facilitating access to promotional offers, merchant offers and coupon codes.”

Gross!

Wikibuy was already acquired by Capital One.

What about Wikibuy is a wiki?

Wiki means fast in Hawaiian.

It came to be synonymous with online community editable websites for information.

But it's original meaning is from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which means quickly.

So it makes sense. Quickbuy.

that's the origin, but not exactly what the contemporary computer meaning is (which is more like "crowd-sourced")

wikipedia has tons of goodwill so calling yourself "wiki"-something is excellent free marketing

you're right! I never realized

https://www.capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/saving-...

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