I"m surprised at the wages, a decent developer in Australia will cost $100k+ alone.

This post may shed some light: https://twitter.com/Quan/status/388165409469243392

Indeed, this isn't our only product :) But certainly we believe there's room in this space to do things better.

Few differences (we also have a lot of respect for RF, those guys have a great product):

- Verified actions, we verify via API's that users actually complete an entry. You can just bypass this on RF (something I'm sure they're working on).

- API, you can create completely custom entry types on Gleam. Put our API code on your shopping cart, or email signup form & activate an entry. Useful for things like "Add 5 products to your wishlist for an entry, or leave a review for an entry".

- More social network coverage (Instagram, YouTube/Soundcloud)

- More ways to install than just embedding on the page

I hear you on the backend demo :) Our frontend is all AngularJS, however the backend isn't. We plan to have a visual drag/drop builder once we do that.

We have most networks integrated from an entry perspective, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (No API currently), SoundCloud & YouTube. We've got Tumblr coming then adding based on demand.

Our Facebook tab solution is 90% completed, we're just testing it currently. Install to Facebook will be in the free plan, on Pro you'll be able to customise the tab/gate images :)

Co-founder here, I replied to you about oauth.

Integration with ESP's is critical to marketers, as someone mentioned below the key reason people run competitions is to drive sales/engagement with followup. Especially for Ecom.

There's a blog post going up in the next few days from Chris at Vero on this very topic :)

Some of my apps are back, but some are still missing. Anyone in a similar boat?

Yeah, some people are still missing some of their apps. We're working on restoring the rest of them.

Same. I have only have 1 app back. I think i had 6 total.

Can you verify that they are all back? And if some are missing, what their App IDs are?

They are all back now.

Same here. I also had to verify that i am a real person.

Yeah, I got about 6 back out of 30ish.

We're working on a solution to allow merchants to get users to unlock coupon codes directly on their site (without having to go via an affiliate).

Seeing stellar results so far with plenty of feedback for improvement (we're in beta). If anyone is interested in helping us test the concept further, hit me up!

https://gleam.io/app/rewards

Typo on the homepage:

Spruce up exisintg documents.

Not really a good start for a copy editing business....

Ah, damn it. Alas, happens to the best of us.

ServerBear does everything the OP is already trying to do:

http://serverbear.com/237-small-amazon-web-services#benchmar...

http://serverbear.com/10-linode-1gb-linode

http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean