A Web Service You Wish Existed

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Wanted to pose a quick question to generate some innovative ideas. I've been trying to think up an interesting web app to develop cause it's been a while since I've written anything cool and useful - and I'm beginning to focus on the affiliate industry for ideas because there seems to be an enormous amount of needs that could be fulfilled. And because everything is about data, analysis, organization, implementation, etc. 202 dominates ppc so that is taken care of. There are plenty of keyword discovery tools.

So..if there was a web app out there that could make your affiliate lives easier, more profitable, more automated, etc, what would it be? Or perhaps one that already exists that sucks...
 


Something that converts urine into $5 bills.


Or, if you want to be boring... Some sort of research tool would be nice. I picked up this $10 software thingy that searches Google, scrapes the first 100 results, and cuts out all the sales-pitch type stuff. It works okay, but it'd be awesome if it worked better. Something that could scrape 100 pages, cut out any duplicate or similar content, cut out sales-type crap, and deliver a nice pile of researched material in a .txt would be an amazing time saver.
 
How about $10 bills?

Research obviously came to mind but I don't know the industry well enough yet to know what affiliates are really looking for. Maybe you could go into some more detail about what you're explaining. What purpose does this research have? What are you looking for? What other types of research is commonly done by affiliates? Time-savers and revenue-boosters are the best..
 
Ill take a tool that can register a new paypal, validate it with vcc, go to digitalpoint forums and sell ebooks. Make a bot for that and ill review it becaus Me Have gowd gramer and spel!
 
xmcp123 said:
The problem is anything that gets said in this thread will be copied by other people reading it to the point where it's worthless. As a tool and a for-profit service.
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Yeah I figured that when I posted but the insight, information, and ideas are better to have, even if it's now out in the open, than not having it. Plus specific ideas probably won't be offered - just insight that could lead to good ideas and models.

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Along with resesarch, I'm also thinking along the lines of statistics, lead involvement, lead information capturing, split testing, lp hosting/creation, campaign management, data organization, etc etc etc...
 
I've created a split testing script already that I will be releasing soon (for free). It's done already, I just gotta make it ready for the public. I have other ideas as well but I'm not sharing them because that would be stupid. Maybe people that don't code can give you some ideas though...
 
Something to simplify the domain buying -> hosting -> dev/design -> lp writing process? Perhaps a service you can just create lp's on, etc? Any ideas?
 
ajax flavored html editor (similar to pspad) that's an online application. Just navigate to the folder and you see a tree of files ... click and edit. No need for FTP

Must be complete with language syntax hightlighting.

Knock that one out and I've got plenty more in my notebooks.
 
erect said:
ajax flavored html editor (similar to pspad) that's an online application. Just navigate to the folder and you see a tree of files ... click and edit. No need for FTP

Must be complete with language syntax hightlighting.

Knock that one out and I've got plenty more in my notebooks.
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Well that would have to be stored locally, right? Because you'd need to be editing your servers HTML files. It would be pointless to upload html docs to a web service, just to edit, download, and reupload. cPanel has this already also inside their file manager.

What else is in that notebook?
 
Seema said:
I would love to see something like this

http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/56218-12k-media-buy-fair.html#post501172
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There is such a tool, its called Evalient (or Evaliant) and its fairly primitive.

I developed http://www.wheregoes.com and it got a good reception. While I was getting feedback for it, I was also told that what would be useful for affiliates and AMs is to have a tool like that which tracks a link and displays all the cookies + their contents which the intermediaries set. Right now they're using LiveHTTPheaders to see cookie contents and its pretty depressing.

Another thing was a widget that can be used to aggregate daily earnings info from multiple networks and show the total revenue on the desktop.

Ask your AM, he's like the aggregate of 100 affiliate's fears, hopes and dreams - an AM will know what tools they need.
 
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