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Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?

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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?

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Does anyone have any experience selling wepapps? Something that sits on a database, memcache, solr, etc? I've got a few sites that use various frameworks/technologies that were fun projects that I no longer maintain. I've always thought about selling them, but have always hesitated due to the fear of having to spend time supporting them.

Are buyers generally technical? Could I just say, you get a huge performance boost when you turn on memcache, and they'll know what I mean?

Do they expect me to host the application, or do they want the code/database/domain all transfered over to them? If transfer, do they expect help setting it up?

Flippa has always perked my interest, but every time I look at it I just see a bunch of wordpress blogs that auto generate content. I'd love to hear some stories that involve apps more sophisticated than content blogs.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?

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Does anyone have any experience selling wepapps? Something that sits on a database, memcache, solr, etc? I've got a few sites that use various frameworks/technologies that were fun projects that I no longer maintain. I've always thought about selling them, but have always hesitated due to the fear of having to spend time supporting them. Are buyers generally technical? Could I just say, you get a huge performance boo…

Web Apps do sell, but typically they can end up being undervalued because people fail to understand the purpose or how they work.

If you do sell your App, remember that whilst buyers may be technical, they still appreciate clear English. Here's an example of an app listing gone slightly wrong

https://flippa.com/auctions/115892/

The guys seems like an incredible developer, but certainly not one to be let loose on marketing!

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?

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I sold 2 legitimate sites on Flippa earlier this year. One was a Wordpress blog that jus published RSS feeds of deals from commission junction and linkshare. It cost $50 to build and sold for $850, largely because it ranked well for a few long tail keywords and made a few bucks per month. The other was an ebook site that cost $250 to make (including the cost to have the ebook and a dozen blog posts written). I operat…

Great to hear you had successful sales on Flippa. Interesting theory on scammers. Be assured that we do a lot of work to identify and remove duplicate accounts to block this happening as well as stop shill bidding. Coordinated users could arguably still trade sites between themselves but this would be an expensive exercise for the sites over $5K. Finally, not sure how much value buyers put on a previous sale price is given the rapidly changing nature of the website in the right (or wrong!) hands ..
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