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Rye Store Builder — Earn money by sharing your favorite products
Our app allows anyone to curate products into their own custom store to earn affiliate income in seconds. Setting up your store is easy: Customize your store, add the products you love, and share it with your followers. Signup and earn a free NFT.
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@lastridgely Glad you like it! The store builder is 100% free with no subscription or transaction fee. Arjun gave a good answer to @vinayp10 about how we'll make it sustainable in the long term via the release of our API.
@vinayp10 Hey Vinay -- good question, we actually create non-custodial (as in, we don't own them and can't access them) Solana wallets for users based on their email. Right now, we gated buying with sign up so we could airdrop an NFT when you shop. It was more-so a way for us to test out if the wallet creation was an interesting feature.
That being said, we may remove that gate and let anyone click through (and potentially only have folks sign-up if they're interested in the crypto pieces). It's also open-source, so anyone can clone and create their own, much better version of the store builder :)
@vinayp10 The store builder is run on an API that we're creating. To get our API production ready, we wanted to launch the store builder to get usage. We're also hoping for other developers to create their own store builder or other shopping experiences that run on the API.
Interesting idea and makes it easy + incentivizes sharing of recommendations. Love it
@joshuawohle Thank you for supporting Joshua! Give it a try and let us know what you think :)
Think this is useful -- it's a cool way to share recommendations without being salesy. Also interesting way to earn tokens on top of regular every day life decisions (not that we have to continuously value the concept of just existing lol, but nonetheless, I digress...)
From a user perspective:
1) I might start with "Add a new product" before the prompt to "Add a new section" -- I understand why hierarchically you would start with section, but from a "where do I begin perspective" I feel like add a new product is a more powerful starting point. Then the user could group the products or the prompt could be "add a new section or add a new product" -- Dropmark does an ok job of providing the option to "stack" URLs that have been visually bookmarked. Bottom line: I would explore tools that get you to add the atomic unit of content first and group/categorize later.
2) I had confusion over whether I needed an amazon affiliate link or just any old amazon link would function when adding a url -- I am assuming any old link works and Rye does the work to compensate me?
3) I may be wrong, but it seems saving an avatar is failing to save or populate the avatar on the frontend -- tried a couple times, but it didn't save
4) would be cool to have a banner or bottom widget that gives suggested examples of other people's Rye stores to see how they organized them or one that is already populated
Also -- I would suggest adding a non-male / possibly mom-blogger influencer type to the home page. There are so many people sharing these links for free etc. on Instagram saved stories -- would be cool to see one of them repp'd on the home page. But I'm sure you're getting to that...
lol @ Apple products and supplements. But I get it... this is a product hunt debut ;) <3
@kfalter Thanks so much for the feedback Kelsey.
1) + 2) We've passed on the feedback to our product team!
3) You're right - nice spot. It should be bug fixed now.
4) That's a cool idea, how about a 'Discover' page where you can see all the top performing/note-worthy stores?
Cool product - congrats on the launch!
What % of sales do store owners receive as commissions?
@saadhrizvi Thank you for your support Saad! It depends on the category of product - you can see the full breakdown in our FAQs here: https://bit.ly/rye-faqs
Really cool idea! I can see this being super useful for non-technical people that want to earn some affiliate commissions from the products they recommend to their friends and followers.
Great stuff. It would be cool if I could also add my own product image as a cover to the products in case I have better ones than the ones you pull from Amazon/Shopify. Or better, videos.
The section where I’m adding why I recommend this product could be more prominent or better designed because that’s in the end my selling proposition.
I worked on something similar and have more suggestions but that’s it for now… good start so far! :)
Hi Product Hunt! Arjun here, CEO of Rye.
We started Rye with the mission of building a new fairer way to buy and sell online. Our mission is to catalyze innovation in eCommerce by allowing buyers and sellers to connect more openly with less middlemen.
Our vision is to make selling online super easy and accessible for everyone by building a network of millions of merchants, promoters, and developers, all working together to build new, exciting, and effective experiences for all shoppers. For merchants, Rye powered experiences help them sell more, grow faster and take control.
Rye Store Builder
We’re excited to launch one of the first apps built on the Rye Protocol, the Rye Store Builder. The Rye Store Builder is a free tool that lets anyone earn in seconds by letting anyone easily create their own custom store with the products they love.
The Rye Store Builder is useful for anyone — from a way to share the products you use, to influencers who want to create another income source with affiliate commissions without having to worry about getting brand deals or inventory.
How it works
Creating a store takes seconds. To get started:
1. Sign up on our website.
2. Customize your store by adding your details, add products by inputting the product URL of any Amazon or Shopify product
3. Share your custom store URL with your followers
Features
🛍️ Add products in seconds
🤑 Earn commissions on over 300 million products Amazon and Shopify [coming soon] products
🖼️ Reward your shoppers with NFTs [coming soon]
™️ Customize your store with captions
🔗 Choose your store name
Example Stores
My store: https://arjun.rye.store
Justin Kan’s store: https://justin.rye.store
Jamie Quint's store: https://jamie.rye.store
Free and Open Source
The Rye Store Builder is **not for profit.** We’ve open sourced our code under an MIT license, and allowing anyone to clone the code and launch their own store builder. We think that the store builder is just one example of an unlimited amount of new shopping experiences that can be built with the Rye Protocol.
This is very cool! I've always wanted to collect and share in some way all the sustainable products I'm switching to and using on a daily basis! But also save somewhere for me to buy also in the future.
Why is this limited to creators though? Just curious :) and how do you verify that someone is a creator of some kind?
@sanhitam it's open to anyone to use - we consider anyone sharing on social media as a creator!
Hey @diezdosuno, thanks for commenting! Could you share more about why it makes it iffy/dodgy?
Hi Hunters! I’m the Co-Founder & CTO of Rye Protocol. We’re super excited to get the Store Builder into the hands of as many users as we can to get feedback on both the Store Builder but also the Rye Protocol.
Build with us
We’re launching the Store Builder to show the developer community the potential of the protocol. To build with us or get early access to our API, join our Discord.
To learn more, visit our FAQ page
We’re also hiring a Founding Frontend Engineer! If you’re interested, please ping me at saurabh@rye.com.
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