Hey everyone,
Iโve been working on a self-hosted affiliate tracking tool after running into a common issue with existing solutions like Rewardful or FirstPromoter.
Most of them require full read-access to your billing provider (Stripe/Paddle) and operate as closed, managed services. That means handing over sensitive financial data and trusting a black-box system for attribution.
I wanted something different:
self-hosted transparent privacy-first
So I built RefearnApp โ a self-hosted affiliate tracking engine.
๐ง Why this approach No third-party data access โ everything runs on your own infrastructure **Transparent attribution logic **โ affiliates can verify how tracking works **Full data ownership **โ all relationships and logs stay in your database **No forced subscriptions **โ you can run it without ongoing costs โ๏ธ Deployment Docker-ready Works with Coolify or any VPS Lightweight enough to run alongside existing services ๐ Open source model
The core engine is AGPL-3.0 and fully self-hostable.
Iโm following an open-core approach:
core functionality is free and open optional paid features support ongoing development ๐ Repo
https://github.com/ZAK123DSFDF/refearnapp
Iโd really appreciate feedback from people here โ especially around:
setup experience architecture decisions anything missing for a self-hosted workflow
thank you good advice. yeah i will implement that previous i was the only one who developed the project that is why i didnt create any branch!