I built it because of a need and it's worked fabulously. It's hands down doubled my monthly affiliate revenue (i.e. to be clear, that's in the 4 figures).
I think where it failed however is that it's really hard to explain and I sure haven't cracked it. I get a few signups a day, few use it at all.
It's not for everyone - but it definitely works for me and it would work for anyone in the same boat (someone who needs to affiliatize hundreds/thousands of outgoing links)
This is not a product that I'm interested in, but may I provide some feedback on your website?
It took me a little while to understand what Clickrouter does. The very first line, "Monetize Outbound Clicks", contributed a lot to my confusion. It made me think that maybe you were just a frontend to e.g. Amazon's affiliate program.
It was only when I read Step 4 of "How's it work" that I understood what it did: "Watch ClickRouter route each click to your best (i.e. most profitable) merchant network every time !"
I would've been much happier if the very first line was something like "Maximise your revenue by automatically using the best affiliate links."
Straight away I know _why_ I should be interested in your product, and how it works.
Love the idea of this. I've never done affiliate links or anything before but I'm getting ready to launch a site that has some affiliate links sprinkled in here and there.
I'd add something about before and after behavior. What does a prospective user already have that they're going to affiliatize, bare Amazon (or wherever) links? And then does it take bare Amazon links, affiliate them to Amazon or search for other sites that have the same product?
I suppose people in the affiliate game would already know this stuff, but there's a lot of dumb people like me who might see it as a way to get into affiliate stuff easily.
I think a lot of it could come down to trust, part of the great thing about multiple affiliate networks is your eggs aren't all in one basket. By using your product all of their income relies upon your service working. That's what'd put me off anyway.
Yes, we sent the inbox to a blackhole but keep in mind, Mailinator does not and can not actually "Send" any email.
It's a receive-only service. As always, any email "from" @mailinator.com has had it's reply-to forged (which is pretty trivial).
Also - even before we blackholed the email, it's unlikely any email in that inbox (i.e. hhhh..) was read. Each box has a 50 email limit (FIFO) which was immediately overwhelmed. You couldn't click fast enough between seeing the inbox list and clicking an email.
Mailinator is simply a "receiver" in all of this but we have no indication our servers were otherwise involved.
I don't see a TXT record for _dmarc.mailinator.com. If you created a DMARC reject policy all the major webmail providers would block messages "from" mailinator.com
DMARC basically doesn't work, many mailservers don't look at it and those that do frequently ignore the policy -- even setting a REJECT policy typically results in mail being passed through like nothing happened.
BCC recipients can't see (or contact) each other to mitigate the spread. If you look at the source code, it BCCs 99 contacts from the infected account per message.
When I received a copy of the email 9 hours ago, I tried loading that h^16 mailinator inbox a few times. It was showing as empty except every few minutes a response to the virus email would come in. I saw "stop phishing" and "suck it!" and a couple of others. The virus email itself wasn't showing there.
> it's unlikely any email in that inbox (i.e. hhhh..) was read.
Any way you can tell for sure?
Do you have any logs that could be used to graph the spread of this? E.g. if you were able to find the earliest email to that mailbox you should be able to tell when it started, and with who.
I built it because of a need and it's worked fabulously. It's hands down doubled my monthly affiliate revenue (i.e. to be clear, that's in the 4 figures).
I think where it failed however is that it's really hard to explain and I sure haven't cracked it. I get a few signups a day, few use it at all.
It's not for everyone - but it definitely works for me and it would work for anyone in the same boat (someone who needs to affiliatize hundreds/thousands of outgoing links)