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Thanks HN: A Little Feedback Goes A Long Way (deanbarrow.co.uk)
6 points by makethetick on July 3, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Your pricing page is not very clear to me.

> Affililink will operate on a pay as you go system meaning you only pay for what you use.

OK. On which basis?

> Each month you will be awarded a number of free credits, these will give you a certain amount of links to be processed. Once these have been used, you can purchase more through the control panel.

OK. How many links are we talking about here? How much will extra links cost?

> Affililink is currently free of charge and will be for the immediate future.

For how long? The page doesn't really do a good job at explaining how pricing will work in the long run.

When it comes to my blogs, there are thousands of dollars on the line. If I'm not embedding my own affiliate code, I really need to trust your system to work and be sustainable enough to exist in the future. Otherwise going back and change the existing links is going to be a pain.

Let me understand how much it costs to use your service now or in the future and I may use it.

I'm also writing a book on technical blogging for The Pragmatic Bookshelf. If your system works well, is cheap, and simplifies things for newcomers, I may suggest it as an option in the book.


Hi acangiano, I haven't yet put a price together which is why the page lacks information. Ideally I need to run it free for a while to work out user usage and cost of running.

So far I'm thinking of something like 100 clickthroughs to a credit, and users will get 5 credits free per months - effectively 500 free links processed a month.

I'll update the pricing page as soon as I've got some proper information to put down. Thanks for your input, I've found your email in your website, I'll get in touch soon.


On the index page, the link "Our usage plans and pricing are available here." goes to http://affililink.com/plans which 404s.


It's always a work in progress, thanks! :)




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