Referly (YC S12) lets businesses create their own rewards networks

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love referly (disclosure: also love Danielle the founder and my former co-worker).

Awesome that they are just demoing today, yet I've already made $30 bucks from my referly profile.

LOVE it. Today has been awesome--we're excited to see what post-Demo Day life has in store.

And nice work with your recommendations--any tips for newbies?

tips: Be genuine. only refer stuff that is really great and you would put your reputation behind (because you are).

Also, one cool and easy hack, is to make a collection of office things that you know your office manager orders regularly (coffee filters, pens, post-its etc). He or she can refer back to the collection easily (good for them) and you get the rewards (good for you).

...brilliant. I love the hack.

Do you mind if we use this advice in future blog posts/tweets?

not at all. Last time I checked, hacks weren't patented :)

NB: the actual URL is http://refer.ly (not http://referly.com as linked in the article, which seems like a weird typo when the article is about the company)

And this is exactly why not having a ".com" domain is a big problem (in my opinion).

We (Hacker news/tech/hacker/etc. folks) understand what a ".ly" domain is. Nobody in the real world does.

Get a ".com" domain. Always.

That's a valid point. We've owned refer.ly for 3 years and began pursuing the .com domain as soon as we decided to turn it into a business.

Also, our product is (currently implemented as) a link shortener so the .ly domain choice has served us well.

Thanks for the feedback!

Time to start up Reeferly and do some kind of medical marijuana delivery service.

This is plan B if the affiliate marketing thing doesn't work out.

Reads like a regurgitated press release.

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