I like to build affiliate Nish site builder

[umen242]

Hello all (sorry for the bad English, it’s not my native lag huge)
I’m in a process of deciding on building affiliate related application
After scanning the net I saw that there is several “affiliates site builders”
They are mostly scripts and almost all of them are in php .. no asp/asp.net jsp support
Now Im thinking on building one that will be desktop based that will let the users to build
Affiliates Nish site in php or asp or asp.net and that will support the major affiliates site api’s
And to have the ability to manage the site online . ( kind of cms system )
And more and more and I thinking to make it free.
What do you think ? is there any place to this kind of product

 

[Michel Z.]

There is always space, just make it slightly different from what your competitors are doing (as you already explained). Give it a try! You should also come up with a plan how you plan to promote your product... Good luck!

 

[pickledegg]

best of luck with your project umen242

 

[umen242]

Thanks for the reply

another question is
do you know where can i ask people ( users ) what they would like to see
in such application ?

 

[jryan21]

another question is
do you know where can i ask people ( users ) what they would like to see
in such application ?

Use your software to set up a blog or forum that is dedicated to development, where people can post bugs or feature requests. You can also post screenshots and demo versions so they can see what it looks like. This way you will show your users that you are actively developing your code and will make changes to it to fit their needs.

 

[chaslife]

sourceforge.net

 

[griff]

people dont use asp/asp.net or java because its a pain in the ass to find good hosting for it. Stick with php and you'll have a much larger audience.

 

[umen242]

well now im in the stage of the planning , i will like to do something that other application doesn't have
im very open minded for suggestions

 

[justo_tx]

Hello all (sorry for the bad English, it’s not my native lag huge)
I’m in a process of deciding on building affiliate related application
After scanning the net I saw that there is several “affiliates site builders”
They are mostly scripts and almost all of them are in php .. no asp/asp.net jsp support
Now Im thinking on building one that will be desktop based that will let the users to build
Affiliates Nish site in php or asp or asp.net and that will support the major affiliates site api’s
And to have the ability to manage the site online . ( kind of cms system )
And more and more and I thinking to make it free.
What do you think ? is there any place to this kind of product

Interesting idea, I'm kind of working on something dedicated to just ebay affiliates. But if you want a desktop client to work as a hub you definitely have your work cut out for you. Not only do you have to build a template driven site with for the affiliate landers themselves which will vary considerably based on the offer type/presale method but you will also have to build a client to manage the sites and aggregate data which means you will need to build an exposed API from your templates that your client can consume (and it damn well better be secure). You would have to build the API regardless of whether your managing app is a thick or thin client but if go thick client with PHP you now have to incorporate a different technology for the client (Java or maybe Flex), if that is your route you are probably better off going with .NET (WPF client and ASP.NET ouput sites), to keep your integration and learning headaches to a minimum.

You also have a chicken/egg problem as far as feedback goes: noobs won't know what features they need so you'll end up building blind, and the big affiliates already know exactly what they need and built their own scripts or some other method to highly automate their biz a long time ago and have little incentive to give you suggestions on feature sets.

Good luck, you'll need it, but if you pull it off it could be a cool product.