My main focus right now is VendorButton. It lets vendors recommend relevant products on their thank-you pages after a purchase. Their own offers come first, with optional recommendations from other vendors. There's also private mode and per-site click statistics. While that is my main focus right now, I have several sites I created recently that are really cool. I'm also building products including ClientJot for project scope and client approvals, MoneyFunny for product-ad creation, and Sigdes for email signatures. Running several products makes the distribution problem very personal: someone can buy from one of my sites without knowing the others exist. And of course, Qevra which has over 680 sites signed up, as well as OpenAndLive has mapped 119 live streaming cams, 88 areas and 31 countries. And yes, I went down the LoL copy site highway with PureMoney.lol and a few other lol sites.

I set myself a challenge: create something that could earn money within a weekend. The first ideas sounded reasonable, but they depended on manual work or demand we hadn't established. I kept pushing back. This is generally how I approach solving most problems. I ask myself "Will this make any money, and how fast will it make money" - I do that only for the fact that a long time ago someone stated to me "Money Loves Speed". It's the truth too. You attract money with your speed of excution. VendorButton came from looking at my own sites. After someone bought something, the thank-you page was mostly a dead end. I already had other products that might help that person. Connecting those products felt like a concrete place to start.

I thought access to a vendor network would be the main attraction. Then a potential customer said he worried his buyers would get stolen. This person runs a business where his leads and buyers are super protected and case in point - they make him money. Buyers are where your money maker lives. Never forget that. That is why I was using old tactics of recommendations and marrying them the warm credit card in hand of the "thank you page". This is your last chance to capture that credit card again and again and again. But back to my buddy... That changed the conversation. He wasn't asking for more exposure; he wanted control over the customer relationships he had worked to earn. We added private mode so vendors can use their own offers across their sites without participating in cross-vendor recommendations. Network access only has value if people trust the boundaries.

Nick from Nick Launches bought VendorButton, then sent me a screenshot because he was having trouble activating his site. He said he had added the DNS record and asked for help. That mattered more than a compliment. He was putting it on his business and trying to make it work. His question moved the product from "does this sound useful?" to "help me get this running."

Distribution-and proving that the recommendations are useful enough to keep running. VendorButton earned its first $19 within 24 hours, which was encouraging. But one purchase doesn't prove repeatable demand, and a click doesn't prove a sale. The challenge now is getting vendors to install it, add relevant offers, and see enough value to keep using it. We've added statistics so those conversations can start with actual activity instead of guesses.

Decide what counts as evidence before you start building. It's easy to keep adding features because an idea sounds plausible. Someone paying, attempting installation, or telling you exactly why they won't use it gives you something much more useful. Also, be honest about the business you want. If you want an automated product, don't quietly build a service that needs you to fulfill every order. Keep the first promise small enough that the product can actually deliver it.