Hey all,
Thanks Luke for sharing the news.
The free
Prosper202 is the exact same code as the paid Prosper202. I'll explain more about the reasoning later down.
Prosper202 has been under almost solo development since 2011, I returned to work on it after Wes and Steven purchased it back.
Wes eventually moved on to other projects and I took over it full time.
There’re a lot of new things to discover and benefit from in Prosper202. Some of them were/are industry firsts. I fully expect other
trackers will adopt some of the stuff I built, it's competition.
Here are examples of tech Prosper202 was first to have purlink zero redirects. That’s the ability to eliminate redirects from your lp to your offer. It uses your affiliate link directly but Is faster due to automatic optimizations Prosper202 does on the landing page
Currently Prosper202 is also the first and only tracker to offer deferred pixels.This allows you to fire client side pixels with a postback. Imagine being able to build FB purchase LLAs even if your offer only allows postbacks.
There’s a lot more, so skim the changelogs to see everything.
Currently I have Warp202 under development. It’s an entirely new plug in redirect engine built for speed. I ditched php which is old and sluggish and wrote everything with Go. It’s enterprise level performance, we are talking about the ability to handle thousands of redirects in milliseconds.
So why free? Why now?
People have never stopped asking for the free Prosper202 to come back since it became paid. So I have always known there was a need for it.
But the old way Prosper202 was eventually monetized (we launched Revolution202) is not a model I wanted to redo so it become paid.
Luke didn't mention this, but he asked for deal (cheaper Prosper202) for all of you. I politely declined.
The logistics of two code bases for free and paid was too much to deal with as a solo dev. The only way this could work is if it was the same code for both free and paid.
I wasn't willing to do that, and also it's kind of scary putting a free version out there that's the exact one people pay for, which in turn pays my bills and keeps my family fed.
But I woke up yesterday thinking about the tens of thousands of people who have been put in worse situations due to the current pandemic. I felt I was in a position to make a small difference in the lives of a small fraction of those who will be affected.
The original free Prosper202 made it possible for thousands of affiliates (people) to make a living during the last big recession in 2007-2009. Some made millions due to having access to Prosper202, and a few went on to do really awesome things for this industry.
You can thank Wes for that, back then I thought it was a terrible idea to offer Prosper202 for free. Now here I am doing the same lol.
If I'm able to replicate just a fraction of that again, it would be worth it.
So I came up with the following idea. Free Prosper202 and Paid Prosper202 will be exactly the same.
But the free version doesn't come with live support from me. There's the knowledge base at
https://support.tracking202.com for that, and all of you have this forum.
IMHO: Luke's Prosper202 content was/is one of the best. He often went into more detail on stuff than we did on our end. So you are in good hands.
Eventually there will be a way for you to to purchase upgrades that are mainly tied to support and access to my time. The current breakdown is
Plan 1 (estimated price range $29-$49 a month)
Live Chat Support
Weekly live Mastermind202 zoom calls
Plan 2 ( Estimated price $299+ a month)
Everything above and live personal one on one zoom calls for CTO/CMO as a service type assistance.
My hope to is that, you will upgrade to paid plans when they are financially able to do so.
At the end of the day, your money pays my bills. It also allows me to support you better and speed up the the development process by bring on more developers.
My feature backlog is massive, I'm heading back to my code editor once this long post is done to finish a major new feature for purlinks.
I will be active here as much as possible, to answer your questions and generally be a part of this community Luke built.
My only ask is to not "expect" me to personally answer your support questions. I will always chime in if I'm free and able to do so, but out of fairness and general sound business practices, my priority will always be to my paid customers.
