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Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate da

Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).

vladwetzel 10y ago
I posted yesterday on reddit, 5 books sold
- blurrywh 10y ago
  Thanks for the info, highly appreciated! Do you think it will get decent traffic through SEO in future?
  - vladwetzel 10y ago
    As to be honest, I have no clue about SEO at all :) I'm happy some other developers checked it out...Didn't even think to support this project, data is quite static. But according to some feedback, some things to be changed for better filtering. Will get on it at night :) Not really interested in sales, will be happy if amazon would send me a pack of beer :)
vladwetzel 10y ago
https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-but-you-should/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...
midgetjones 10y ago
Now I just need to write a book called 'closed as duplicate' and I'll be set for life!
- vladwetzel 10y ago
  Will be happy to see your book in the top :)
eliben 10y ago
I'm not sure I see what's wrong with this. The author obviously invested work in this and provided a resource others may find useful. You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.
- ysavir 10y ago
  What about this is useful? There is no breakdown of whether the mentions were upvoted or downvoted, no mention of whether they solved the problem (or were even relevant to the question), no review of the books so that readers can make an informed decision, etc. This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon.
  - eliben 10y ago
    I like lists like this for discovering books I haven't heard of. I don't make an immediate buy decision based on appearance in a list, and will do more research. But it's a nice way to run into something you didn't run into before for some reason. To each their own; shaming the OP on HN for adding affiliate links on their own website, on the product of their own effort, is what I'm trying to point out.
  - OJFord 10y ago
    > What about this is useful? > This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon. Something which Amazon does, because likewise 'others may find [it] useful'.
- blurrywh 10y ago
  Did I say with one word that I find OP's work wrong? Where did you read this? Why are you so negative? It's great what the OP did and I am really interested in his sales (and he already gave some insights, he's a great guy)
  - jonmb 10y ago
    When you say something like "nice affiliate hack" it comes with an implication that it's wrong, because a lot of people on the Internet try to trick others into clicking their affiliate links.
thibaut_barrere 10y ago
In 2011 I launched a side-project called hackerbooks.com (wayback machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hackerbooks.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hacker...). It got a fair bit of traction. Out of my memory, Amazon affiliate links only earned me something like $30, total (I had other sources of revenue via targeted ads, which earned a bit more, but not much).

Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).

vladwetzel 10y ago

I posted yesterday on reddit, 5 books sold

blurrywh 10y ago
Thanks for the info, highly appreciated! Do you think it will get decent traffic through SEO in future?
- vladwetzel 10y ago
  As to be honest, I have no clue about SEO at all :) I'm happy some other developers checked it out...Didn't even think to support this project, data is quite static. But according to some feedback, some things to be changed for better filtering. Will get on it at night :) Not really interested in sales, will be happy if amazon would send me a pack of beer :)

vladwetzel 10y ago

https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-but-you-should/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...

midgetjones 10y ago

Now I just need to write a book called 'closed as duplicate' and I'll be set for life!

vladwetzel 10y ago
Will be happy to see your book in the top :)

eliben 10y ago

I'm not sure I see what's wrong with this. The author obviously invested work in this and provided a resource others may find useful. You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.

ysavir 10y ago
What about this is useful? There is no breakdown of whether the mentions were upvoted or downvoted, no mention of whether they solved the problem (or were even relevant to the question), no review of the books so that readers can make an informed decision, etc. This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon.
- eliben 10y ago
  I like lists like this for discovering books I haven't heard of. I don't make an immediate buy decision based on appearance in a list, and will do more research. But it's a nice way to run into something you didn't run into before for some reason. To each their own; shaming the OP on HN for adding affiliate links on their own website, on the product of their own effort, is what I'm trying to point out.
- OJFord 10y ago
  > What about this is useful? > This list is not much different than making a list of the top selling programming books on amazon. Something which Amazon does, because likewise 'others may find [it] useful'.
blurrywh 10y ago
Did I say with one word that I find OP's work wrong? Where did you read this? Why are you so negative? It's great what the OP did and I am really interested in his sales (and he already gave some insights, he's a great guy)
- jonmb 10y ago
  When you say something like "nice affiliate hack" it comes with an implication that it's wrong, because a lot of people on the Internet try to trick others into clicking their affiliate links.

thibaut_barrere 10y ago

In 2011 I launched a side-project called hackerbooks.com (wayback machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hackerbooks.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110305143421/http://www.hacker...). It got a fair bit of traction. Out of my memory, Amazon affiliate links only earned me something like $30, total (I had other sources of revenue via targeted ads, which earned a bit more, but not much).