Turning the jiema.my referral program into real passive income

Our referral program is one line: anyone who signs up through your link gets tagged to you forever, and we pay you 10% of every paid order they ever place. There's no upper cap, no expiry, no clawback unless the invitee account is closed for fraud. That makes it one of the higher-quality affiliate programs in the SMS-verification niche, and worth thinking about as more than a side note.

The math, with realistic numbers

SMS verification has a median order size in the $0.10–$0.40 range, but active users come back: a developer testing onboarding flows might burn through $5–$20 per week; a small operator running multi-account work easily clears $100/month. So one moderately active invitee is worth $1–$10/month to you, indefinitely. Ten of them is real coffee money. Fifty starts to feel like a side income. A few hundred from a decent YouTube channel or Telegram group is meaningful revenue.

Because the cut is lifetime and uncapped, the curve is heavily long-tailed. One person you invite who becomes a marketplace operator can earn you more than the next twenty casual signups combined.

Where the conversions actually come from

Three places do most of the work in this niche:

• Tutorials. A YouTube or Medium post titled "how I registered X with a temporary number" includes your link in the description. People who searched the exact problem you're solving land on the link with high intent.
• Communities. Telegram groups for indie hackers, Discord servers for marketplace operators, subreddits about online privacy. A pinned reply with your link (clearly disclosed as a referral) reaches the right audience.
• Tooling that complements ours. Browser extensions, account managers, form fillers, multi-account workflow guides — anywhere there's a "you'll also need an SMS verification step" footnote.

What doesn't work in this niche: paid ads on broad platforms (the per-click cost dwarfs the lifetime value of an invitee), spam in unrelated channels (your link gets the channel banned and you with it), and adding our link to "list of free SMS services" pages (we're not free — we charge cents per code; the conversion rate there is awful).

Disclosure matters

FTC rules in the US, ASA rules in the UK, and similar regulations almost everywhere require you to disclose when a link is a referral or affiliate. The format is simple: "(referral link)" or "I get a small commission if you sign up through this link" next to the link itself. This is not a legal hurdle — it actually improves conversion in sophisticated audiences, who are more likely to use a disclosed referral link than an undisclosed one once they know.

Picking the right framing

Audiences in this space respond to specifics, not generalities. Compare:

• "Try jiema.my — best SMS service ever!" → effectively zero conversion
• "Indonesia numbers for Telegram registration, $0.10 each, USDT-TRC20 payment — jiema.my (referral link)" → people who needed exactly this will click.

Be concrete about the use case you solved, name the country and service, name the approximate cost, and link.

Cashing out

Your referral balance and your service balance are kept separately in the account. You can either: (a) move referral earnings into your main balance and use them to pay for your own orders; (b) withdraw to a TRC-20 wallet you control, subject to the network fee and the minimum withdrawal. The withdrawal page shows both paths and current limits.

What might cause earnings to stop

Two scenarios. First, if an invitee account is suspended for fraud, their commissions going back are reversed — that's standard everywhere. Second, if we close your own account for AUP violations, the unpaid commissions are forfeit. Stay on the right side of the acceptable use policy and neither happens.