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Re: Show HN: Our attempt at solving the wishlist problem..

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Post by jbbarnes »

Eduard wrote: post #13

I guess the business model here is affiliate marketing. I noticed that the URLs you use to redirect to Amazon.co.uk product pages don't include the "tag=your-associate-id" query string parameter. Are you still eligible for commission?

Yep it is affiliate marketing - we just launched to friends and family here in the UK to begin with but have just applied to SkimLinks so will turn any of our links into affiliate links.

Re: Show HN: Our attempt at solving the wishlist problem..

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Post by jbbarnes »

brador wrote: post #14

Not loading, but what is the wishlist problem?

That every Christmas and birthday my family ask me what I want for Xmas/birthday and that I have to email them a bunch of links as to what it is that I want. Maybe it isn't a problem, but it bugs me and my mate so we built something that we found useful that we thought could be beneficial to others. thanks!

Re: Show HN: Our attempt at solving the wishlist problem..

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nulluk wrote: post #18

This was submitted just 2 days ago for anyone wishing to see the existing comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857287

Yeh hope people don't think we are spamming - we wanted to launch on a quiet day (Saturday morning) and just get some stats to see if people knew that the bookmarklet existed (if they installed it) and if they knew to save it. Based on this we've made improvments over the weekend ready for launch today.
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