Spadout:About

What is Spadout?

Spadout.com has been representing fellow outdoor enthusiasts since 2004. We monitor prices, reviews, and popularity of outdoor gear. Our comparison tools and information pages allow our twenty thousand daily readers to select the perfect product at the best price.

Spadout stands for Sport Adventure Outdoors (“Sp”ort “Ad”venture “Out”doors). Spadout is pronounced spad-out (the 'ad' is pronounced like 'add').

Spadout is True. We understand that providing you with the most accurate and up-to-date information guarantees your return to Spadout.com.

Spadout Technology

Spadout is capable of indexing any store on the internet with no action from the retailer. Spadout does not use datafeeds or any client side technologies. Spadout has developed in-house bots and uses a server farm to index millions of prices per day.

Veta4, an in-house application, gives Spadout the competitive edge by predicting currently unlisted products and automatically adding them. We do not manually add any products or prices at Spadout.

Who is Spadout?

Spadout.com is managed by a fourteen person team. We are based in Bend, OR.

Mark Silliman - Founder / CEO

Mark is the lead programmer for Spadout. Mark programmed the first version of Spadout while sleeping in the front seat of his car on a 6-month climbing road trip. Prior to programming Spadout, Mark was a software developer for the Yucca Mountain Project.

Leah Miller - Editor-in-Chief

Leah is Editor-in-Chief of SpadMag, Spadout's online magazine for gearheads; she is also Spadout's Quality Control Manager. Leah has a bachelor's degree in Technical Journalism from Colorado State University, and her freelance work has appeared in Climbing, Urban Climber, and the Mountain Gazette.

Contact Spadout

Silltech Inc
PO BOX #5331
Bend,OR 97708
Email

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Jobs

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Help promote Spadout

Add a review to any product or retailer and we'll send you free Spadout.com stickers. How to add reviews.

Climbing gyms, thanks for the exposure! Let us know how many stickers you can use (yes, they are all free). If you have a competition coming up, let us know so we can send you the amount you need.

Affiliate Marketing Projects

Mark Silliman (owner of Spadout) also develops open source projects for the affiliate marketing community includes Trademark Bidding and Video Affiliate Marketing.