Dashboard for Viewing Earnings Across Multible Affiliate Networks?



CCarter scammed me for my heart.

Also this idea wouldn't be doable unless you put all your user : passes for different affiliate networks in the db so that it can pull your account stats which to me seems like a loose end.
 
Systems like this are too big of a pain to develop. Not so much develop, but maintain. You add in say 50 affiliate networks to pull stats from, only 2 will have a solid API to pull proper stats from. With the rest, you have to "bot" your way in, so any time they change their HTML a bit, the thing breaks until you fix it. Systems like this just become a nightmare to maintain.
 
bluechinagroup said:
So that's why you'd maybe charge a monthly maintenance fee? It's certainly doable, especially by a company rather than a one man band such as yourself.
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no, thats why you sell it for 300 bucks and promise free updates for life instead of taking a small monthly fee, then bail on the idea and just pretend its never happened.
 
Fatbat said:
Derp, of course, it was CCarter, but I don't know that it ever became a thing?

http://www.wickedfire.com/design-de...generic-dashboards-3.html?highlight=dashboard

I assume Serpwoo is where the attention was focused?
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LOL - Wow, I can't believe people remembered this project. It was actually completed like 3 months afterwards back in 2012. I just never created a script parsing new plugins into the system, everything would be done manually - paralysis by over-analysis.

At the basic level it's less then 30KB in size and you can write whatever plugins you want for it. I've got it showcasing the backend of SERPWoo as an "admin display panel", but originally it was to showcase whatever an affiliate wanted. I actually designed it to connect over a dozen affiliate networks and I connected to AAO and that same framework AAO uses so it was pretty resilient and several WF members have it installed and I believe use it to this day. It's self-hosted nothing pings back home at any level - but we don't have a "plugin" marketplace or anything like that.

I wanted to sit down in the summertime (2015) and finalize this cause it is going to be open sourced. For SW we monitor server loads, have line charts with new daily member numbers, etc, and have our feedback system going into this one screen so at a glance we can see everything going on in the system - according to whatever plugins we've created to monitor different aspects. I know when we go over X amount of keywords we have to order a new server for example, based off of load times. And the different crawlers for different social signals, and 3rd party data report back - so we know if there are any hiccups.

Like it was stated the original purpose was monitoring affiliate stats, but like any of the competing dashboards out there, you can monitor ANYTHING. The reason I didn't officially launch it was cause it was going to be open-source and only real way to make money was in plugin development or running a marketplace like WordPress's which at the time I wasn't interested in doing. But I need a fun experiment project to do so I've promised myself to finish this off this summer even if only a handful of people end of using it for whatever reason.

But that StatsRemote.com looks like the perfect way to go for OP.​
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
Systems like this are too big of a pain to develop. Not so much develop, but maintain. You add in say 50 affiliate networks to pull stats from, only 2 will have a solid API to pull proper stats from. With the rest, you have to "bot" your way in, so any time they change their HTML a bit, the thing breaks until you fix it. Systems like this just become a nightmare to maintain.
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Actually, it wouldn't be so bad. I'll continue hyping up Kimono Labs, but it would be pretty quick/harmless to create an API of any of these sales feeds from any of these sites.

Depending on how much it would require changing would depend on sites and just cost of doing business. I would assume there's a lot more sales potential than cost of monitoring these feeds.
 
^^ Yeah, clearly there are others out there doing it, such as statsremote.com, and charging a reasonable monthly fee to keep it all working.

Pain in the ass, or fairly lucrative monthly income for a dev or two?
 
Phear said:
CCarter scammed me for my heart.

Also this idea wouldn't be doable unless you put all your user : passes for different affiliate networks in the db so that it can pull your account stats which to me seems like a loose end.
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you can get the data without using your password if you set up postback or something similar
 
I've made my own in Python.

Considered turning it into an app, but needs to be stand alone Windows/OS app, because people won't hand over their user/pass to a website for these things.
 
Honestly, the easiest way (not the cheapest!) to do this is get yourself a HasOffers or Cake account and run all your affiliate links through there first.

That way you just log into one dashboard and see all your stats for all the offers you are running.

If you decide to go with Cake, take the time to setup the vertical/niche and geo for each offer you are running and you can maximize the reporting features built-in.
 
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