Can we please make this a recurring question Wouldn't it be worth doing a trial period of manual posts first, to gauge the amount of interest?
This same thread pops up on here more or less every month.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?
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#12We have made several iOS apps which have been very well reviewed and sell consistently, but we're not terribly good at marketing. We're open to an offer if someone wants to purchase them and market them to the right audiences. Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/nikki-degutis/id119686... Contact: email in profile
Cool looking bubble and paint apps. I would seriously consider buying if the iTunes listing had a video preview. By buying I mean pay the $0.99, not buy the rights to app from you. ;) Like a couple of the reviews, my kids are obsessed with bubbles and love colorful paint apps.
They do have a video preview if you look at it from within the app store on a mobile device. Check it out, I'm sure your kids would like it :)
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?
#13We have made several iOS apps which have been very well reviewed and sell consistently, but we're not terribly good at marketing. We're open to an offer if someone wants to purchase them and market them to the right audiences. Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/nikki-degutis/id119686... Contact: email in profile
sales data?
Currently probably $5 per day total from all our Apple apps. Like I said, I'm terrible at marketing. I've tried and I've failed.
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#14hakrlog.com
sample blog - pvsukale.hakrlog.com
Markdown blogging for hackers. Everyone gets a unique subdomain and they can write and publish with a simple interface. A native nested comments section, No ads, No monthly charges. People can follow authors for weekly emails and RSS. It is in beta, no current users though. If anyone wants to support development / buy the project contact email :- pvsukale at gmail dot com .
Developed using Rails. ( I am a last year CS student)
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?
#15I have a wordpress plugins business that earns maybe a couple hundred a month without touching it at all. I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products were not as good. The only difference is I'm working so hard on other stuff this hasn't had the time it deserves. Someone with the time and motivation to add a couple of new features and a…
Would you be interested in selling the WP plugin business? If yes please let me know more about it.
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#17My little Chrome extension https://unshorten.link has had a growing user base for several years now. Like a few others in this thread, my strengths don't necessarily lie in advertising or marketing. I'd be open to bringing on a partner who has experience monetizing and marketing projects like this or even selling outright to the right buyer.
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#18I have a wordpress plugins business that earns maybe a couple hundred a month without touching it at all. I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products were not as good. The only difference is I'm working so hard on other stuff this hasn't had the time it deserves. Someone with the time and motivation to add a couple of new features and a…
What exactly is a really good offer? I'm not personally interested. But every time one of these threads comes up someone invariably comes along with a "business" that makes a tiny about of money but they want to sell it for a "really good" offer. A couple hundreds a month. Let's say that comes to $4000 in profit a year. What do you want? A 10x multiplier? So $40,000? Does your plugin business have enough value to justify this? I doubt it. How about $12,000? A 3x multiplier. Can you justify that kind of value? It might be hard.
I've messaged people before who are making a couple hundred in revenue a month and then ask for $1,000,000. I doubt you're one of those people. But seriously, keep your expectations in line with the reality of your business.
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#19Can we please make this a recurring question Wouldn't it be worth doing a trial period of manual posts first, to gauge the amount of interest?
Agreed, and can we please not make this a thing, actually? Because it happens regularly already and in my opinion it's pretty noisy. We have questions like:
"What is your pain point?"
"What do you wish existed?"
"What problem in your industry would you pay to solve?"
"What is your side project?"
"How much do you earn from your side project each month?"
It just seems obsessive. There is sometimes a fair amount of participation but I don't really understand what people are getting out of it.
Has anyone who has ever asked about industry pain points on Hacker News ever successfully built and launched a solution? Has anyone who has ever asked about side projects for sale ever bought one or aided in one being purchased by bringing attention to another commenter?
Maybe making it a regular thing would help in that it each iteration only turn up once per n days, but otherwise I feel like these questions come up enough already.
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#20I have a wordpress plugins business that earns maybe a couple hundred a month without touching it at all. I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products were not as good. The only difference is I'm working so hard on other stuff this hasn't had the time it deserves. Someone with the time and motivation to add a couple of new features and a…
What exactly is a really good offer? I'm not personally interested. But every time one of these threads comes up someone invariably comes along with a "business" that makes a tiny about of money but they want to sell it for a "really good" offer. A couple hundreds a month. Let's say that comes to $4000 in profit a year. What do you want? A 10x multiplier? So $40,000? Does your plugin business have enough value to jus…
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