AffiliateRail is affiliate program software for SaaS founders. Track referrals through Stripe or Paddle, give affiliates a branded portal in multiple languages, and pay them from your own PayPal or Wise account. AffiliateRail takes 0% of every payout and never holds your money.
How did Astra change the scope or ambition of what you built?
Maker
AffiliateRail is affiliate software for SaaS founders, and I'm building it on my own. Astra let me take on three big jobs I couldn't have done alone in the time.
It rebuilt the whole customer experience, going through the product to make it easier to use. It built the affiliaterail.com website. And it built our MCP server, so a founder can set up and run their affiliate program from CODEX or another AI agent, with a yes needed before any change.
The MCP server changed the ambition most. It means an AI agent can run the affiliate program alongside the founder.
What surprised me was how fast Astra turns out code good enough to ship. That speed is what let one person take on all three.
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Hey Product Hunt, Jimi here.
I've spent a few years building SaaS and i've built and scaled affiliate campaigns to go with them. Founders using affiliate software kept complaining about the same two things: finding good affiliates, and paying them.
So I built AffiliateRail.
What it does:
- Your affiliates get a link, and their Stripe or Paddle sales turn into commissions automatically
- You pay them from your own PayPal or Wise account. We never touch the money, so we take 0% of every payout
- Unlimited affiliates on every plan
Where GPT-6 Astra comes in, for the challenge:
- It rebuilt the whole customer experience, shaping the product to make it easier to use
- It built the affiliaterail.com website
- It built our MCP server, which lets you set up and run your affiliate program from Codex or another AI agent
What surprised me was how fast it turns out code I'd actually ship. Work I'd have expected to take weeks came back in a fraction of the time, and it held up.
I'm here all day. If you run an affiliate program, what's the most annoying part? And if you don't, what's stopped you starting one?