The Vegas Deals
Verified Las Vegas happy hours and specials, always fresh.
Overview
A continuously refreshed directory of Las Vegas food, drink, and freebie specials — pulled from venue menus by scheduled scrapers, confirmed by visitors, and geo-sorted to whatever is near you right now.
The failure mode of every deals site is staleness. The Vegas Deals attacks that with a scheduled scraper fleet that re-checks venue menus and PDFs on a cadence, plus a visitor confirmation loop that flags entries as verified or suspect.
Specials are modeled with real time windows and day-of-week rules, so the site can answer "what is happening near me in the next hour" instead of just listing everything.
A separate cron service handles ingestion independently of the web tier, so a slow scrape never affects page performance.
Where the effort went
The interesting part of The Vegas Deals was never the page templates. It was refresh at scheduled cron, and getting the underlying model right so the product stays correct as it grows. That is the part we care about, and it is the part that determines whether something like this is still useful in a year.
It runs on infrastructure the owner controls — source in GitHub, deployment on Railway, DNS and CDN on Cloudflare — with no proprietary platform in the middle.