Guidance required for starting affiliate deal business.

Hi everyone,

I am planning to start a small Amazon affiliate deal business in India. I have a full-time job, so I am trying to automate as much as reasonably possible.

I already have an active Amazon India Associates account and I am member of few deals group where I see a lots of deals. My basic idea is:

Find a good deal → identify the Amazon product/page → generate my own affiliate link → create a short useful post → publish it to my own Telegram / Facebook / Instagram / X.

I am not looking to blindly copy everything. I want to filter out deals as per my selected niche and add my own short description.

The biggest issue I am trying to solve is the Amazon affiliate link.

When I use Amazon SiteStripe, it gives me two links:

1. A normal/long Amazon URL containing my Associate tag.
2. A link.amazon/... short link.

For short link, Amazon says “Deeplinking enabled: Affiliate links open directly in the Amazon app.”

I tested this myself and the short link really does open the product directly in the Amazon app on my phone.

When I regenerated a short link for a product, Amazon gave me a completely different short code than earlier.

So I’m wondering:

How do experienced Amazon deal channels generate these app-opening affiliate links at scale?

Do you:

• Generate the affiliate link through SiteStripe manually?
• Use some Amazon API/tool that I haven't found?
• Use a third-party deeplink service?
• Simply use the normal Amazon tagged URL and accept that it may open in a browser?
• Have some automation that converts an Amazon URL into a proper deep link?

I am also interested in the deal source side.

I follow many Telegram channels, WhatsApp channels/groups and X accounts that post Amazon deals. Ideally I would like to automatically capture deals from sources that I can legitimately monitor, rather than manually forwarding every deal. I would want to use original source of deals.

What tools/workflows are people actually using for this?

For example:

Telegram → automation → Amazon affiliate link → Facebook/Instagram/X/Telegram

I have come across things like n8n, Make, Telegram bots, Telethon, various scrapers, etc., but I am trying to understand what people actually use successfully in a real deal channel rather than just what is technically possible.

I also currently don't have Amazon Creators API access because I don't yet meet the qualifying-sales requirement. So I am particularly interested in solutions that work without Creators API.

Would really appreciate input from people who are actually running Amazon deal/affiliate channels.

Specially interested in:

1. How you generate affiliate/deep links automatically

2. How you capture deals automatically

3. What automation platform you use

4. How you handle duplicates/filter bad deals

5. How you publish automatically to FB/Instagram/X/Telegram

6. Any limitations or account/policy issues I should know about

Thank you!

* I took some AI help in drafting this post.