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Collabrun — TikTok Shop affiliate invites on autopilot · Show HN

  1. The best idea on the page is the example where the creator who sold the most made a loss once every cost came out. That one sentence explains why "profit, not GMV" matters better than any feature list.
  2. Both money examples are labelled as illustrations, not real shop data. Honest, but it means a seller paying $100 a month sees no evidence from a single real shop.
  3. Pricing is "$100 a shop a month, 75% off the list price of $399.99" for a product that has just launched. A list price nobody has paid yet reads as an anchor, and it makes the real price feel less trustworthy, not cheaper.
  4. The page is long and complete (search, invites, sample scoring, dashboards), but the risk a seller worries about — invites going out in my shop's name without me — is answered only implicitly ("pause a campaign at any time").
  5. First fix: drop the list price and show "$100/shop/month, 30 days free, no card", then add one real (anonymised, with permission) creator-profit table from a trial shop, and a line saying exactly what Collabrun sends on your behalf and how you review it.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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