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Simple Affiliate Software For Web Apps/SaaS

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This is pretty sweet.

It's great to see companies springing up to take the hassle out of building SaaS apps.

Chargify/Recurly and the other folks doing recurring billing come to mind as well. Thanks guys!

Thanks! Infrastructure for distribution and monetization are really important for saas apps. The guys at chargify/recurly/spreedly/etc. are building some really important infrastructure too.

This. is. awesome.

And timely too. I was planning to sit down to add some affiliate stuff into MailFinch but I'd be willing to try this out. Just signed up for the beta.

Hey, didn't expect this to get out to HN yet, but it did. We've been planning this for a while and have had some devs excited, but it's hard to really get people on board without something concrete. We put this together over the weekend as an MVP (im writing an entire post on it with andres this week).

Hopefully using Cappuccino too. Looking forward to feedback, since this is for developers and we need to make it work for you guys.

Sorry, I've just been waiting for something like this for awhile. Really excited about it.

We're insanely excited an app developer submitted it :D.

I didn't know about this and I'd love to get started using it. I wanted have an affiliate system for my own app but writing my own was not attractive at all.

I'll definitely be watching.

this is an incredibly complex task to pull off, best of luck guys. when will it be ready for testing?

it definitely is, but it's something that has to happen. We're trying to simplify things in the first iteration at least.

This appears to be non existent, it uses a wufoo form... Has anyone ACTUALLY USED it?

It's an MVP, we're in the process of building it. We could either send mindless PDFs and talk about it or we could show it off. The screenshots are from the actual ui.

We're all about releasing products fast (cloudomatic and cloudomaticstart were released in <30 days). This isn't something done in a few weeks though sadly.

Not sure what MVP stands for... but I just hope you prove me wrong... Don't want to see a publictivity repeat.

MVP= minimum viable product.

Great idea! On a side note, the hover effect on the buttons hurts my eyes - maybe it's just me.

Thank you! Ha, the green glow, right?

That's it! Looks like a developer took the initiative because apart from that the design is neat :D

Pricing?

Still working out the exact details by talking to devs/getting feedback. Suggestions? Fyi, no up front fees or monthly minimums. ie- if you're starting out and want to use cloudomatic(flow), you don't have to be doing large volume.

This looks very promising. I believe that the number of people who want to offer affiliate marketing options will boom if you show them that you can do it (with your app). In a sense, you'd be creating a market. Perhaps offer fees that scale down (even minimally) as my revenue goes up, so that our interests are more fully aligned? And it may be worth experimenting with a monthly fee, just to see if that helps keep out the "high-maintenance, low-profit" customers (or not).

Thank you! It's a huge driver of revenue if done right. Our goal is to make it more customer/relevant partner driven, rather than shooting fish in the barrel traditional affiliate marketing. Yup, we'd definitely scale down with volume.

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