A: 1. Actually.... we did add a feature for this. You can "Mark as Published". It takes a Roundup out of draft state and it's not publicly accessible on our website (unless you share it to Roundups). If you publish somewhere else, we don't know if it's private or not and lots of people use the "Copy" functions in a Roundup to export content, paste it elsewhere, and NOW mark it as Published on our side, so we treat it as Published, and stays private, at least on the Roundups domain.

2. "Travel Roundups" is a scaling strategy, not a GTM strategy. We only launched Roundups 10 months ago and Travel was not part of the GTM. Our data told us that Amazon, Clickbank, etc. would resonate with the AppSumo audience and we crushed our GTM on AppSumo. The AS users have also had the loudest voices with our product so far.

We listen to what our users want and prioritize the roadmap by making data-driven decisions. Just because I like an idea, doesn't make it a priority.

Believe me, our goal is to help you monetize with a Roundup. I'd love to see a template with a focus on Insurance and financial products because they have the highest 1-time payouts (CLTV is so high for those products, so companies are paying affiliates a ton to acquire customers). I think there should be a template for SaaS Roundups because SaaS companies pay 20-30% in RECURRING commissions. That's a huge opportunity for affiliates.

Travel Roundups is a good fit here to turn content into commerce, but more people need to help prioritize it now that we're at market. We have a long list of user requests. Travel doesn't have a ton of traction from a large enough sample of people for us to prioritize it.
https://roundups.featurebase.app/?q=Travel

I still like it... It's just very different than physical products and would require a whole development cycle to get it right. It doesn't get done with a few loud voices. It's a numbers game.