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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!