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I see a lot of talk in this thread about how Amazon's UI makes it hard to filter the good stuff from the bad stuff. But I haven't seen anyone suggest making a

I see a lot of talk in this thread about how Amazon's UI makes it hard to filter the good stuff from the bad stuff. But I haven't seen anyone suggest making a redirection website which does this filtering for a customer. Is there any reason one of you web slingers (not my gig) couldn't build a better site where all the links are Amazon affiliate links, thus using the entirety of Amazon as your backend? Then, you would have a better website for Amazon than Amazon does. People would use it. Sure, Amazon would totally absorb you once you got big enough, but that doesn't sound like the worst problem for a millionaire to have. And it would fix the problem.

toss1 7y ago
I've been thinking much the same thing, both to make search far better, filtering vendors & brands, etc. But I suspect that Amazon would not long allow the consistent access to their data sets this would require. It seems that it'd be to Amazon's benefit to provide an API (perhaps they do, I haven't really searched, just haven't yet noticed one available) and see what data gets pulled related to sales...
rkuykendall-com 7y ago
Amazon has very specific rules about affiliate links. You have to be providing what they consider a significant amount of content unrelated to the link. The site you just pitched sadly wouldn't qualify. Two real examples: If you have a site where you show a graph of all the IMDB ratings for a TV series, that isn't enough added value and they will ask you to remove the links. If you have a site where you post the reading-orders for various short series with short introductions, that is enough value.