What I always find amazing is that you work and work for 6 weeks straight doing thousands of little tasks and at the end you look back and ask yourself where all the time went. As always 80% of our programming time goes into background stuff which is difficult to show and which makes it even more frustrating at times. Luckily, this time there are a few things that we actually can show off, too. 
Roundup makover
Take the new roundup for example. This one has been on the todo list for like forever. Now it got a design overhaul and comes with a slick new table format. We also added genre information and changed the sorting order so that all daily deals within each shop are now sorted by highest saving first. Additionally, we added some basic filtering including price, saving and platform. While you can’t combine them (yet) hopefully they still enhance the usability a lot.
Filter improvements
Speaking of filters, the filter box on the deal lists now show you the number of results for the shop filter (in brackets). A small but pretty neat feature which saves you some unnecessary clicking for shops without deals. Works only with shops so far but I guess we will add it for other filters as well.
New imports
We added a whole host of new imports. Some are easier than others depending if they have a product feed or not. Anyway, we now push a couple of hundreds more deals per week through our system which should give you even more opportunities to browse for deals and spend you hard earned money.
- Amazon (now also Mac and PS3 deals)
- Adventure Shop (PC)
- Beamdog (PC)
- EA (is starting to push some better deals lately)
- GOG (finally)
- GreenManGaming (PC)
First discovery features
While you mostly see our deals we also list and track shop availability and prices for more than 15.000 digital games that are not necessary on sale but might be still interesting for our users. We call that our iceberg: deal are the top, digital games the thing below the surface. Small vs. big. Get it? Anyway, we try to push the iceberg a little more out of the water (got to stick with the analogy now) by making our games listing more visibile with some discovery features. It’s only a very modest selection but still better than nothing, I guess:
- A new side box on the product and deal pages now shows the top 5 bestselling games at one glance.
- Also on the deal and product pages we now have a box that shows the newest games with the same genre and platform as the currently viewed product.
- Finally, there is are two popular shop boxes that give our (new) users instant access to our most popular digital distribution shops.
