How it all started
For over 15 years our global communities have been helping everyone to find and share the greatest deals and the best prices. Find out more about how we joined together and grew to become the biggest shopping family on the planet
hotukdeals was launched
Jen Nikkel and Paul Nikkel launched hotukdeals in August 2004
1000 members
Wooop! We have 1000 members
First to empower users
We switched from editorial to allowing users to vote, surface content and decide the final position of deals
vBulletin is so 2004..
Switched from vBulletin to our own code
The Hamleys moment
The Hamleys moment brought a lot of new users to hotukdeals - were you there?
hotukdeals hype
We're the fastest growing search term in Google Zeitgeist
We launched our first app
Deals wherever you are! We launched our first app in 2012
Paul did 129 push-ups
He's been talking about it ever since
Making friends
We started working with FR & DE
Big plans
The day we kicked off the Pepper idea
1000000 members
Our 1,000,000th member just joined!
First office
We set ourselves up with a base in Shoreditch
Shiny new website
We updated our site with the Pepper theme
2000000 deals
Our 2,000,000th deal was posted!