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Monetize your Chrome extensions
with unused internet

Your users can decide if they want to support you by opting in to share a fraction of their unused internet bandwidth.

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Supported Platforms

Browser Plugins
Electron
Flutter

How does Mellowtel work?

With Mellowtel developers have a chance to earn from their products.

Users can decide if they want to support the developer by opting in to share a fraction of their unused internet bandwidth. This is used to give real time access to the web to various companies and non profits that need up to date information. The developer receives a share of the revenue these companies pay.

In this way developers can focus on improving the service for their users and keep it free and available for everyone.

LOGIC

Open Source and privacy driven

Mellowtel is completely open-source in order to guarantee transparency. Anyone can view the code on GitHub. For privacy reasons, your users always remain anonymous.

Mellowtel is opt-out by default and users that want to support you have to explicitly opt-in. Users can change their settings at any time.

open-Source

Integrate easily with 7 lines of code

Install the NPM package with "npm i mellowtel" or use the pub.dev package in your product. Then copy/paste 7 lines of code to start earning with Mellowtel

Mellowtel provides built-in pages for users to opt-in/out and a dedicated settings page to manage their consent.

If you prefer to keep your own UI you can also just call the methods and have complete autonomy over the integration

Easy to INTEGRATE

Earn and withdraw with no minimum threshold

The revenue you earn is calculated on the number of requests handled by the users that have opted-in to support you.

Cash out your earnings whenever you want with Paypal or Stripe. There is no minimum threshold for a withdrawal

EARN

UI element

Who is using Mellowtel?

Mellowtel is being used by some of the best startups and non profits in the world. They need to view and retrieve information from the Web at scale and in a cost efficient way. Mellowtel allows them to do so by using the unused internet bandwidth of your users and you get paid a share of the revenue. This data is then used by these companies to help local businesses find leads, power automations to simplify people's lifes, build open-source chatbots to answer questions and increase human knowledge.

Products people love, integrated with Mellowtel

Hundreds of thousands of people in the world use products integrated with Mellowtel every day

Xtranslate
90K+ users
MENDELEY
10K+ users
Mygiveback
10+ users
VIRTUAL keyboard
10K+ users
My web shortcuts
100+ users
ANKI HELPER
200+ users

Frequently asked questions

How much can I earn with Mellowtel?
The exact amount varies based mainly on three factors: (1) the amount of active users you have, (2) how many of those opt-in, and (3) their geolocation (US, France, Italy, Spain and China have higher payouts). But as a rough approximation, 1000 active extension users who opt in should bring around $50 per month. As we scale and optimize the earnings will increase.

How to get started?
Just create a free account, install the Mellowtel package, copy paste your API key in configuration key and initialization the code. For more details you can read the docs

Does Mellowtel require special permissions?
In Electron and Flutter no. For browser plugins Mellowtel requires the "storage" and "declarativeNetRequest" permissions. If you are not already requesting these permissions, you can integrate the library by adding them to the optional_permissions section in your manifest. If you have questions, feel free to contact us on Discord.

Will Mellowtel negatively affect user experience?
The short answer is: No. The library uses array of optimizations under the hood to ensure that it doesn’t slow down the user’s browsing experience. The impact it has on bandwidth is basically like seeing an additional ad like those on many e-commerce or news websites. Another feature that helps keeping the library unobtrusive is Rate Limiting. If you want to delve deeper read the "Concepts" section of the docs

Can users decide if they want to use Mellowtel?
Yes. By default everyone is opted-out. Users have to explicitly opt-in if they want to help support the  developer and can opt-out at any time from the settings page. The core idea is that since it's their unused Internet bandwidth, users should decide if they want to share it or not.

How does Mellowtel address privacy concerns?
Privacy is a top priority for Mellowtel. We do not collect, share, or sell personal information (not even anonymized data). Requests are handled in an incognito tab and every node is assigned a random identification key, not linked to any account. With Mellowtel we want to give developers an alternative to ads so they don't have to sell their users data to keep the service afloat.


What is Mellowtel's goal?
Mellowtel's goal is to create a safe and sustainable ecosystem for developers to make a living thanks to their products while giving complete control to end users. In this way developers can focus on creating great products that benefit users and enhance their experience. Our incentives are aligned with those of the developers as Mellowtel earns only when developers do. The revenue split is 55% for the developer and 45% for Mellowtel
Have other questions?
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