Sweet Deal: A Free Groupon Android App

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Jul 22, 2010

Daily deal sensation Groupon has released an app for Android devices, the company announced this morning on its company blog.

The free app (unlike this one, an official one) enables users to buy deals in over 65 cities, access their purchased Groupons and find ones that are nearby.

You can also redeem deals from the app and view side deals by selecting the “More Deals” option in the deal page menu.

It works similarly to Groupon’s iPhone app, which has been out since March 2010.

Not much to add to that little nugget of news, apart from the fact that the company is keen on improving the app and awaiting feedback from Android users on how to do so.

Groupon has to date raised a whopping $173 million in venture capital, most recently scoring a $135 million round at a $1.35 billion valuation.

(Thanks to Mihir for the heads up)

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nigx

Android Market is catching App Store, non only in number of apps, but also in quallity of apps.
Victor

It’s 65 cities, not countries. Sadly…
Robin Wauters

Doh, fixed. thx!
JAB

It might be me, but I find this app pointless.

Groupon emails you the deal of the day, so why install their app on my phone? I already see their deal when it pops up in my notifications.

Honestly, there’s no point in making this a native app. It’s shows that their tech leadership is a little off. Definitely not laser focused. Maybe too much VC money and no idea what to build next to justify the crazy valuation.

Instead of this pointless free app, they should have made a more accessible mobile web site and left it at that. Now they have two apps to support on two different phone platforms that utilize none of the access to phone hardware that native apps could utilize.
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great app, thanks for posting!
matt
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Android Market is catching App Store, non only in number of apps, but also in quallity of apps.
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I think it’s a great app.
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I’m quite oblivious with this. I might as well agree with Jab, this is quite pointless. Why bother with a native app to get deals?