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Ask HN: how can a small book suggestion site make money?
I made a site this weekend, foxblot.com that recommends amazon books based on tweets.
The obvious extension is to make it a facebook app too.
But what are ways I can make this profitable? I am looking for suggestions that do not involve a lot of work, as I can only dedicate time on weekends.
related post with functional details:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212994
- Natsu 14y agoThe most obvious approach would be affiliate links. I'm not sure that it would be the best, however.
- vain 14y agofoxblot does use amazon affiliate links
- petercooper 14y agoThe creator of http://anynewbooks.com/ http://anynewbooks.com/ is an HN regular - so hopefully he'll comment - and that service is similar to yours. I'm pretty sure he only uses Amazon affiliate links to make it pay.
- aristus 14y agoCheck out http://hn-books.com/ http://hn-books.com/ created by this forum's own DanielBMarkham
- vain 14y agohave spent some time tweaking the algorithm for relevancy. the thing that i find most annoying at this point is the slow speed