[Feature] Affiliate Program

Goal: grow the INLEO platform by creating deeply entrenched incentives that turn the existing community into an army of marketers.

Incentives can dramatically shift sentiment. As of this writing, INLEO has ~1,400 Monthly Active Users. If this userbase were able to leverage simple affiliate tracking links/codes to onboard new users and earn clearly defined incentives now and into the future, they would turn into an unstoppable force of marketers.

1,400 people working toward the common goal of onboarding as many new users as possible.

What Are the Incentives?

The incentives should be both immediate and recurring.

This means that there should be some instant gratification to onboarding new users. An instant payout for your work to onboard someone.

There also should be recurring incentives attached to each onboarded user.

API / Backend Design

Backend:

On the backend, we need a way to track:

1. Who is referred by who
2. The activities of referrals

We should turn this into an accessible API. This way, the data can be used for rewards + other projects/users can make use of it.

Example of what the API might look like:

{"khaleelkazi":{"referrer":taskmaster4450le, "threads":102, "blogs":7, "ever premium":yes}

You'll see the reason for tracking this information in the rewards part below. We need to track:

1. Who was referred
2. How many threads the referral has ever made
3. How many blogs the referral has ever made
4. If they have ever been premium (it's either "yes" if they've been premium at some point or "no" if they've never been premium)

Rewards:

1. Signup = 10 LEO

Threads:

1. 1st Thread = 5 LEO
2. 10 Threads = 10 LEO
3. 100 Threads = 50 LEO
4. 1000 Threads = 100 LEO

Blog Posts:

1. 1st Blog Post = 10 LEO
2. 10 Blog Posts = 25 LEO
3. 100 Blog Posts = 100 LEO

Premium:

1. 1 Month of Premium = 100 LEO
2. 1 Year of Premium = 500 LEO

UI Design

1). Add Referral to the Menu Dropdown

2). New Referral Page