When I decided to drop AdSense and bet on affiliate monetization for my AI tools directory, Amazon was the obvious first integration — books and GPU hardware are contextually reasonable on a site full of open-source AI models. But Amazon's conversion story for developer-adjacent products is weak. The users landing on a LLaMA or Whisper model page are not there to buy a deep learning textbook; they're evaluating whether to self-host something.
That realization pointed toward GPU cloud affiliates. People who read model pages are more likely to spin up a pod than click a book link. Here's what I integrated, how, and what I'm watching.
The Three Programs
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