Deal Aggregator Affiliate Site

A simple web app that scrapes and displays deals from multiple retailers in a clean grid layout, monetized through affiliate links. Requires minimal coding skill and can generate $200-300+ monthly with low maintenance. Perfect for beginners wanting to earn passive income.

Deal aggregation is a saturated space dominated by Slickdeals, Honey, and RetailMeNot, all of which have massive SEO authority and established user habits that are nearly impossible to displace without a differentiated niche or audience. The $200–800/month revenue band is plausible only with a tightly focused vertical — general deal sites built by solo founders rarely crack meaningful traffic without years of content investment or a pre-existing audience. Affiliate commissions on retail deals are thin, click-through rates are low, and the margin for error on traffic acquisition is basically zero. The most likely failure mode is building a technically functional site that simply never gets indexed well enough to matter, leaving the founder with a scraper that runs perfectly and earns nothing.