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Re:Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce T... by truebecomefalse on Monday October 15, 2012 @11:37AM (#4655502)
Thanks for mentioning loved.by. I had never heard of them. AFAIK the Referly team started working on the idea about two years ago about when loved.by first debuted.

I think Refer.ly could work if they add enough value to the end user by aggregating every imaginable affiliate service into one and offering some sort of easy to understand and consistent metrics across all of them.

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Re:Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce T... by bduerst on Monday October 15, 2012 @01:51PM (#4656221)
An aggregator could work, but you're at the mercy of the big affiliates from which you need buy-in - and from what it sounds like Amazon isn't playing with them.

All it takes is a cease and desist letter, a la craigslist and padmapper, and you've lost a large portion of your market.

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Re:Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce T... by wtracz on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:14PM (#4656944)
The code to do this is on Github (at least for the UK): https://github.com/fubralimited/php-oara Affiliate network integration is not a technical challenge at all.
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