Affiliate Disclosure

Honesty is the entire point of SideRoad, so here's exactly how the money works. This is a starter disclosure provided for transparency and is not legal advice.

Some links are affiliate links

A few of the tools we mention — in the journal especially — are linked with affiliate links. If you click one and sign up or buy, SideRoad may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra; in some cases you get a discount.

What that does and doesn't change

It does not change which tools we recommend. We only link tools we'd actually use on a build, and we say so plainly. A commission never buys a recommendation, a ranking, or a kind word — if a tool isn't worth your money, we won't tell you it is just because there's a payout attached.

How we label them

Posts that contain affiliate links carry a clear note at the top. The affiliate links themselves are marked as sponsored so search engines treat them correctly. We follow FTC guidance on disclosing material connections.

Why we use them at all

Affiliate income is the first rung on SideRoad's monetization ladder — part of the real revenue we publish in public. It lets the journal stay free and ad-light while still being worth our time to write well. Every dollar earned this way shows up, honestly, in the tracker.

Questions

Reach out anytime via @gloverbuilds.