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Ask HN: I've decided to shut down my side project! What now?

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Re: Ask HN: I've decided to shut down my side project! What now?

#11
I have seen SAAS's on microaquire listed with no customers. In fact I've seen them listed with no customers and no product! Who knows if those sell though.

Worth at least investigating.

Another option would be to pivot what you've built. So you have the stuff for slack and aws wired up. Forgotten ec2 instance sounds like something people would care about but based on your results maybe not as much as thought?

I wonder if there is something else in AWS you could alert via slack that people would care more about.

Expiring domains or ssl certs maybe? Though I'm not sure people care much about that either.

In any case, neat idea. I bet this experience will pay off big later in weird ways.

Re: Ask HN: I've decided to shut down my side project! What now?

#12
My suggestion is to change the pricing to pay as you go. There is no commitment from customers, whatever they save you get some percentage of it. Say you turned off 50 unused machines than you take percentage of 50x1hr of pricing(for demonstration only you choose what you want to charge).

1. This will show clear value of your service as you are charging tiny percentage of what you saved.

2. Customers would be able to try without any upfront costs/commitment so it would be easier to sell.

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