Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by premjg » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 2:30 AM UTC

shazow wrote: post #9

I have a bunch of projects I built up which I consider "done" as far as I'm concerned, but at the same time they're basically free to run (AppEngine in the free tier) so I'm always reluctant to sell... I do wish there were people who wanted to take one of these and build them out to the "next level". - http://www.tweepsect.com/ - Gets 300,000~600,000 pageviews per month (about 1/6 uniques), makes a couple hundred buc…

Have you tried selling these on http://flippa.com

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by laoba » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 2:41 AM UTC

goldins wrote: post #84

http://www.moredrunk.com - Lists alcohol from different bars and grocery stores in order of Alcohol Content/Price. Haven't touched it in over a year and the parser needs an update. Not a lot of traffic currently but perhaps has a high potential.

Typed in Walmart, got an instance crash:

IndexError at /

list index out of range

Request Method: POST Request URL: http://www.moredrunk.com/ Django Version: 1.3.1 Exception Type: IndexError Exception Value:

list index out of range

Exception Location: /home/moredrunk/../moredrunk/views.py in PlacesList, line 117 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.7.1 Python Path:

['/home/moredrunk', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7']

Server time: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:56:14 -0400

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by scottydelta » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 2:42 AM UTC

habosa wrote: post #279

xux wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love the editor GUI. Are you using a framework for that, or did you code it yourself?

It's hallo.js plus Foundation CSS, not my work!

any better editor which supports markdown aswell?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by elliotanderson » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:01 AM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #257

habosa wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Email me, you can find my email in my profile. A few people have expressed interest so I'd like to find a way to get as many people involved as possible.

You could try https://flippa.com/ I don't know how big of a cut they take but they have a bidding process, you could also open it to the public.

For websites there is a $19 listing fee and a 10% success fee.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by Lidador » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:07 AM UTC

CommentGame.com, featured on http://allfacebook.com/comment-game_b126161

Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by joeblau » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:17 AM UTC

There should be a website for selling old projects. This post has more comments than points.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by rememberlenny » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:21 AM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #306

There should be a website for selling old projects. This post has more comments than points.

https://flippa.com/

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by adventured » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:26 AM UTC

aetherspawn wrote: post #186

DenisM wrote: post #116

Well, that's a lot of pent-up supply of side projects! It seems like a natural buyer would be someone like a student who wants to kick the tires of the whole running a small business thing, but start with a better baseline than merely "from scratch", mitigating some market risks, as it were, and reusing existing code. What I like about this is that rather than all the research and development going to waste, it's hel…

But a student has no money.

When I was student age, circa late 1990s, I had a few people I knew with money offer to set me up into an existing web business if I found something interesting to purchase. They didn't have the technical chops to run something, they knew I did, and they had the money. Friends, family, investors, there are numerous options for a younger person to pull this off - even more so if the sums aren't too crazy.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by _djvl » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:38 AM UTC

[link redacted] - a site I've made with a friend back in 2008. It requires absolutely no maintenance and earns a few hundred bucks a month. Tried selling it, but the best offer we got was somewhere around 10k $, which is way below our expectations. Now actually working on renovating it and probably adding some new content and features.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by timothycrosley » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 3:56 AM UTC

http://www.honeydo.es - A social todo list. I use it everyday personally, but simply don't have the bandwith to get it to the point I believe it needs to be at and work full time / create and maintain my open source projects.