How Vid.AI Earned $100,000 Through Affiliates in 12 Months

The top few affiliates do almost all the heavy lifting

Our dashboard made it clear very early: a tiny handful of affiliates were doing most of the revenue.

No fancy attribution needed — the payout logs showed the story.

A few high-intent promoters outperformed hundreds who barely moved the needle.

That's when I realised: you don't need thousands of affiliates. You need a few good ones.

Lifetime recurring commissions are the backbone of real affiliate momentum

Here's the beautiful truth about lifetime recurring commissions: they turn one-time effort into compounding monthly income.

One customer isn't one sale.
One customer is 12 to 36+ months of recurring income.
One customer compounds into passive revenue that grows while you sleep.

When affiliates see that first month's commission come in, then the second month, then the third — watching their income stack month after month from customers they referred once — something clicks.

Once affiliates tasted that recurring, compounding income, they didn't stop. They couldn't. The incentive was too powerful.

This is why most affiliate programs with one-time commissions struggle. You're asking affiliates to constantly find new customers. With lifetime recurring, every customer becomes an asset that pays them month after month.

Retention matters more than commission percentage with recurring commissions

Here's what makes lifetime recurring commissions truly beautiful: they align everyone's incentives perfectly.

Affiliates see retention instantly through their dashboards. If your churn kills their payouts, they stop promoting you. But when customers stick around?

Because Vid.AI retained well, recurring payouts stacked month after month. Affiliates watched their passive income grow automatically. That's what made them continue promoting us even without us doing anything proactive.

30% recurring for 36 months beats 50% one-time, every time. Do the math.

Real product-market fit creates affiliates you didn't recruit

The wildest part?

The best affiliates were people we never met. They discovered the product, loved it, and grabbed their affiliate link without asking.

This only happens when the product solves something painful and immediate.

Most SaaS affiliate programs are broken

After seeing affiliate success, I started researching other SaaS affiliate ecosystems.

Honestly? Most were unusable:

• Fake "recurring" promises — they say recurring but cap it at 3 months or cancel on churn
• One-time payouts disguised as SaaS programs — completely missing the point of subscription revenue
• Late payouts
• Ugly pages
• Unclear structures
• Dead or abandoned programs
• No transparency on retention or real earnings

The worst part? Programs that don't offer true lifetime recurring commissions are asking affiliates to run on a hamster wheel — constantly finding new customers just to maintain their income.

Affiliates deserve better.
Founders deserve better.
Nobody wants to test 200 garbage programs to find 5 that actually offer real recurring commissions.

Affiliates want programs they can trust

The one thing I kept hearing from people promoting Vid.AI:

"I don't want a hundred options. I want the five that actually pay and retain."

That sentence is basically the blueprint of Affok.

Why I Built Affok

After watching random, uncoordinated affiliates generate $100,000 without us doing anything special, I understood something clearly:

If untrained affiliates can create six-figures with a good product and lifetime recurring commissions, experienced affiliates can create seven-figures — but only if they find the right programs.

And nobody was curating that.

Affok is my attempt to build the directory I wish existed earlier: a clean, vetted list of SaaS programs that actually pay lifetime recurring commissions, actually retain, and actually respect affiliates.