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http://www.rankique.com/ http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently ge

by ComNik 13y ago

http://www.rankique.com/ http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).

mtoddh 13y ago
This looks useful and has a nice clean interface - how does it make money? via Amazon's affiliate program?
- ComNik 13y ago
  Thank you :) Jep, Amazon Affiliates.
simonbarker87 13y ago
I was thinking about something like this a couple of days ago for Kindle books.
- ComNik 13y ago
  That is an interesting idea, although, IIRC, there was something about Kindle content with the affiliate program...
  - simonbarker87 13y ago
    Disappointing, either way it would be useful ...
msluyter 13y ago
I'm interested in this, but I don't see your email on your profile (I don't see any emails, actually). Is HN actually publishing the emails? I have vague recollections of that being turned off at some point.
- ComNik 13y ago
  I'm not sure about the hn-profile :/ just send me a mail to me@nikolasgoebel.com :)
namwen 13y ago
I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com. Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!
- ComNik 13y ago
  Thanks for the bug, I'll look into that. And yes, I still don't know what I was thinking when choosing the name...
hbbio 13y ago
Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it? It's nicely built.
- ComNik 13y ago
  Thank you :) This was my first real web-project, so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to get 1000 uniques / month and hoped they would generate around $100+ / month. I'm currently at a tenth of that, so the general ratio was achieved :)

by ComNik 13y ago

mtoddh 13y ago

This looks useful and has a nice clean interface - how does it make money? via Amazon's affiliate program?

ComNik 13y ago
Thank you :) Jep, Amazon Affiliates.

simonbarker87 13y ago

I was thinking about something like this a couple of days ago for Kindle books.

ComNik 13y ago
That is an interesting idea, although, IIRC, there was something about Kindle content with the affiliate program...
- simonbarker87 13y ago
  Disappointing, either way it would be useful ...

msluyter 13y ago

I'm interested in this, but I don't see your email on your profile (I don't see any emails, actually). Is HN actually publishing the emails? I have vague recollections of that being turned off at some point.

ComNik 13y ago
I'm not sure about the hn-profile :/ just send me a mail to me@nikolasgoebel.com :)

namwen 13y ago

I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com. Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!

ComNik 13y ago
Thanks for the bug, I'll look into that. And yes, I still don't know what I was thinking when choosing the name...

hbbio 13y ago

Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it? It's nicely built.

ComNik 13y ago
Thank you :) This was my first real web-project, so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to get 1000 uniques / month and hoped they would generate around $100+ / month. I'm currently at a tenth of that, so the general ratio was achieved :)