Doug Silkstone

Doug Silkstone

Founder of Benson and WithSeismic
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I'm Doug, a London-based founder and product engineer. I started on the paid search team at vouchercloud, where I watched coupon extensions take the commission meant for the affiliates who earned it. Now I build Benson (trybenson.com), which shows online stores which coupon extensions and AI shopping agents are in their sessions and what they cost. I also run my own affiliate publisher, and WithSeismic, a product engineering studio: withseismic.com

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Benson - Block Discount Extensionsp/benson-2•

18d ago

How often do coupon extensions show up at your checkout?

Hey all, I'm Doug, the maker of Benson. We launch here on Tuesday 6 October.

Quick backstory: I started out on the paid search team at vouchercloud, inside the affiliate industry. From there I watched coupon extensions pop up at checkout, apply a code the shopper never went looking for, and take the last click and the commission. Now AI shopping agents are starting to do the same thing: they fill carts and try discount codes on people's behalf.

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10d ago

Benson - Block Discount Extensions - Block discount extensions from stealing your margin.

Benson shows online stores which coupon extensions and AI shopping agents are in their sessions and what they cost. Stores can then hide, cap or replace them, with a holdout behind every change. Detection and agent analytics are free on every plan. New stores get 14 days of the full product with no card needed.
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4yr ago

Glyphs - A Remake of my favourite tool

→ Copy Paste Glyphs: A tribute ✔︎ Recently, glyphy.io (previously on ProductHunt) redesigned its stunning Glyph tool to be more accommodating to programmatic SEO ✘. As a daily user and being unable to contact the makers, I had to recreate the old experience ↺
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