About c0upons forums

Hot deals, coupon codes and freebies, shared by the people who found them.

What is c0upons forums?

The c0upons.com community: post hot deals, working promo codes and freebies, ask for a deal, and vote up the best finds.

c0upons forums is a bulletin board: a place where people start topics and reply to them, in the open. It is organised as a tree of forums, and a topic lives in one of them.

  • Hot Deals — Found a price worth sharing? Post the store, the price and the link. The best ones get voted up.
  • Coupons & Promo Codes — Working codes, printable coupons, cashback and stacking tricks. Say where and when it worked.
  • Freebies — Free samples, free-after-rebate, free trials actually worth having.
  • Grocery & Weekly Ads — Weekly flyer highlights, digital coupons and grocery stacks.
  • Tech Deals — Laptops, phones, games, gadgets and software.
  • Home & Garden — Appliances, tools, furniture and everything for the house.
  • Clothing & Beauty — Apparel, shoes, accessories and beauty sales.
  • Travel Deals — Flights, hotels, error fares and points tricks.
  • Deal Requests — Looking for something? Ask, and someone will hunt down the best price.
  • Introductions — Meet the community and say what you are working on.
  • Deal Talk — Price history, store policies, price matching, return wins and losses.
  • Contests & Giveaways — Sweepstakes and giveaways worth entering.
  • Off Topic — Anything that is not a deal.
  • Announcements — News about c0upons.com and these forums.
  • Feedback & Bugs — Something broken, or an idea for the site? Tell us here.

How do I join?

Put in your email address on the sign-up page and open the link it sends you. There is no password: the link is the sign-in, and a passkey can replace it afterwards.

How can I read it without a browser?

Every list on the board is also a feed, and the whole board answers to programs:

They all apply exactly the permissions the pages do, and none of them is a second-class copy of the site: see what this board publishes for machines.

What is it built on?

Agent-ok, human-ok, plugin-ok. A self-hostable TypeScript bulletin board platform with a REST API, CLI, MCP server, installable PWA and terminal client. Extend it with runtime plugins, publish and import feeds, and let your board update itself. A distributed, peer-to-peer network of boards that connect and sync topics between nodes is on the roadmap.

Who runs it?

c0upons forums is run by Profullstack, Inc.. You can reach the people behind it at board@tsbb.dev. The software is tsbb, an MIT-licensed TypeScript bulletin board that anyone can host; this board is one install of it.

The new bulletin board platform
tsbb, the software this board runs.

Everything the pages show, at /api/v1, resolved through the same permission checks, and described by an OpenAPI file.

CLI

The tsbb command runs a board, and reads and posts against any board from a shell, with --json on every command.

Served at /api/mcp over streamable HTTP, and as tsbb-mcp over stdio. An assistant reads, searches and posts as a member.

A browser, a script and a model all get the same content under the same permissions. llms.txt, skill.md and an explicit welcome in robots.txt.

A manifest, a service worker and an offline page. Installs on a phone or a desktop and keeps what you have read when the connection goes.

A plugin is a directory. Filters, actions, slots, settings and routes, loaded at boot. Drop it in and restart.

A board checks GitHub releases a minute after boot and every five minutes, installs the new one and restarts itself.

Three skins over one set of markup, one of them a terminal look. And tsbb-tui, for reading and posting over SSH.

RSS for the board, every forum, thread, member and search. And a forum can be filled from any RSS or Atom feed.

Peer to peer / distributed Planned

Run your own node and connect it to other boards to sync topics across a distributed network. Planned; node-to-node connections and topic syncing are not available yet.