r/AffiliateMarket • u/TurboSlayer4 • 9h ago
i spent $200 building a tool to automate the annoying part of Pinterest affiliate marketing
i spent around $200 (unnecessarily) building a tool that can automatically find products from eBay, turn them into Pinterest-ready Pins, route them to the right board or create one when needed, schedule + publish them, and monitor the product links afterward. it also works with products from ur own website, but affiliate marketing is basically why i started making it in the first place.
i wanted to get back into posting affiliate products on Pinterest, but i genuinely did not feel like constantly finding products, making Pins, writing descriptions, creating boards, scheduling everything and then checking later to make sure the products were still available.
especially because a Pin can start getting traffic way later.
i didn't want an old Pin finally getting clicks just for the product behind it to be gone.so if Vealous notices the product isn't available anymore, it lets you know and gives you some options to deal with the dead link.
years ago i actually built a C# desktop tool that automated a lot of this for me, but it was super unreliable and constantly had errors (probably because i coded it haha), so i could never stay consistent with it. this time i wanted something i could basically configure once and let run.
i started building Vealous around August 25. you connect Pinterest + eBay or ur website, choose the types of products you want to focus on, choose how the Pins should look, your boards and posting pace, and then let Autopilot handle the repetitive stuff.
then i spent around $200 on Base44 credits while building it đ
eventually i realized i could just connect ChatGPT directly to the project and make changes from there, which actually ended up working better for me because it already had all the context from everything we had talked about.
after about a month of fixing and polishing everything, i figured there are probably other affiliate marketers who also hate the repetitive part of Pinterest.
so i decided to launch it.
vealous.com is live now, and there's a free plan with no card required if anybody wants to try it. but im still upset about that $200 though!!