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by ClickQuestion 3752 days ago
Looks interesting. I'm curious why you built this. Prosper202 is the canonical approach used by most affiliates. It's got both self-hosted and hosted options.

From your landing page, I can't tell what missing features led you to roll your own.

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Maybe I don't get Prosper202 but it seems quite different.

ClickRouter makes a realtime decision where to send your clicks based on your affiliate accounts.

Say you have a forums with thousands of posts which have thousands of links. "Affiliatizing" them all would be a huge and nearly insurmountable task.

With ClickRouter, you install a piece of javascript in your footer. Every click is intercepted and sent to the best Affiliate account you have. It also tells you what affiliate accounts you SHOULD create because you're losing revenue.

The issue for me was just that, trying to affiliatize thousands of links that users put on my site. Now it's done automatically and if I signup with a new affiliate network, it knows automatically those affiliates are available.

Thanks - completely different use case than Prosper202. Very cool, I'll add this to my bag of tricks.