Today is a big day for us, affiliate niche script has finally reached beta after 11 long months of development!
It’s not too late to become a beta tester, simply email us: admin [at] affiliatenichescript.com.
We will shortly be hosting a demo site to see the script running hands on.
It’s that time again, our bi-monthly update!
Hopefully this will be the last update before we can start rolling out beta copies of the script to testers.
Lots of updates and enhancements have been made since our last update, a summary of what we have done is below:
The next stage will be for me to some tests installing the script on various hosts and on different operating systems, once this is complete and no major bugs are found then a beta will be released to all those that have sent a request.
This is a quick update to let you know we have updated the main homepage: http://www.affiliatenichescript.com/ with a progress report and beta signup form.
We expect to be able to start beta testing the application in the next 3-4 weeks. If you would like to signup then please goto our homepage and fill in the form. Please give a little detail of your experience and what alternative Amazon scripts you have tried or are currently using.
I will be posting the next fornightly development update in the next day or so.
Ok, since my last fornightly update we have made a lot of progress with the script. Also we have rebranded the script to now be called “Affiliate Niche Script”.
I did mention in a previous post that we had decided to not add any new features and only focus on bugs, well sorry but I failed, but you will LOVE the new features!!
So here is the summary of what I have been up to since our last update:
New Features:-
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
Well as you can see, I have been very busy since our last update. I am continuing at a great pace and may even be in the position to require some beta testers soon!
I think the price tracking feature is going to be our unique selling point, no other script has this feature yet. I have even found if useful myself. When I first added the feature to ANS I added loads of products to my account to test it out, the following day I received emails with lots of price alerts, I was actually amazed at how often Amazon do change their prices!
Of course there are websites tracking Amazon prices, but you have never been able to run your own. This will added lots of value to your store as it will attract repeat visitors, also as users register you build up an email list will be extremely valuable to you.
Thanks for reading and I will update you again in a fortnights time!
I have decided now, rather than later to change the name and home domain of the upcoming release to Affiliate Niche Script (http://www.affiliatenichescript.com). I think the name suit’s the product much better, as Amazon have recently re-branded their affiliate program to Amazon Product API from Amazon Associates.
I will begin the transfer of the domain sometime this week, all links will automatically re-direct to the new domain so you do not need to update your bookmarks.
Hi,
I have not been able to get much done in the past few weeks as I have been on holiday and generally taking a break from developing ANS for a week or two. I am now ready to contiune at full pace!
A few changes since last update are:
In addition to updating the script I have been “checking out the competition” by looking at the features already available to make sure I have covered most stuff in this product. I have also been digging around some “featured requests” and “wishlist” posts to see what customers really want. I was quite surprised to see our the ANS feature list covered most of the requests, and those that weren’t covered have been added to our “TODO” list for future releases.
The main areas of focus for the next fortnight are to complete RSS functionality, improve the template system and then finish the installer.
Once the installer has been finished, I can then do some real testing on various environments etc…
Development is still going at a good pace, below is a summary of some of the updates since our last update:-
Well, that’s about it for this update, we will be back around the end of September for the next update.
We really need to get started getting the word out about ANS soon as nobody is reading these updates 
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Ok, I am going to start pushing out fortnightly updates to keep you up to date with the progress of Associates Niche Store.
The past few weeks have seen me spend about 6 hours a day coding, that’s a lot of time when I also have a full-time job.
I will be taking a two day break this weekend to relax and gather thought’s about what’s to develop on the script.
So, here are just a few things which I have added/fixed or changed to the script:
What’s left and when will it be released!??!
The dev code is from today feature frozen. I will only be finishing/expanding existing features. Main areas of development left are theming, backend, installer and error handling.
Although as previously stated I said I was about 80% completed before general release, the remaining 20% of development could take me a further 2-3 months. Further updates will hopefully give you a more acurate time.
Back to work, and you will hear from me in another fortnight!
18/07/09 – v0.1 has been in development for about 6 months now, we are about 80%
completed with the script and hope to have some more details released very soon.
Here are some basic details of what to expect for v0.1
Plus lots more…