[hydrogenbonds]

Given how much time you've wasted with this, my feeling is that overall you still lost. They owe you money for the time spent as well. Good on you for publishing this, but you should have mentioned their company name in the title, so that hopefully it show up in search engine results and this alerts others to not collaborate with them.

[sverhagen]

I looked at it the other way around. For a dispute of $88, to hang this company out to dry on Hacker News (they didn't know that would happen specifically, but still it was a public post), I didn't find very professional. You know, for all that talk about acting as a professional. Oh, well, acting...

[pessimizer]

If I can rip off 3000 people a year for $88, that's a pretty good living. I wouldn't even have to feel bad about it, because anybody who would complain is unprofessional.

[locallost]

Passive income gets mentioned a lot here. He's collected over $100 for previous conversions and about $60 after that, and he'll keep collecting as long as the affiliate program runs. It's not a lot of money in general, but you don't start a keto blog with dreams of billions either.

[timzaman]

The big picture here is he's on the frontpage of HN and getting a ton of very valuable attention. This guy isn't dumb.

[867-5309]

$100 to billions is an unrealistic step, and an unfounded generalisation of the author's circumstances. in this day and age something as benign as an "influencer" mentioning the word "keto" could butterfly-ripple the author into an early retirement

[jldugger]

> he'll keep collecting as long as the affiliate program runs

As mentioned in the post, he has cut the affiliate program off. And given that he is naming & shaming them in the blog, and even after getting posted to HN, I think that relationship has soured.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Shouldn't he earn more? $100 is just $1 per 1000 views.

>The site has grown steadily over time, to the point where it now has over 100,000 pageviews per month.