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

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http://VisualizeUs.com - social bookmarking for pictures. * Last month stats: ~2.5 million pageviews, 846,000 uniques. * Highly engaged community with ~210k signed up users (all organically, 0 paid marketing) and 7 million pictures in db. * Expenses ~$400 (hosting and outsourcing). * Making ~$2k/mo profit, mainly from advertising and photo stock affiliates. * Established since 2007, lots of SEO potential and very poo…

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

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http://www.componentfactory.com

A suite of .NET WinForms controls for Windows UI developers. I no longer have the time to keep developing it and the sales are not enough to support a developer full time. Maybe someone else can take it further or make use of the software.

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

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Very nice idea gillis!

I've paused my work on http://stafet.com/ (a marketer/salesperson meet developer/sideproject/startup) site bc. not having enough time, but the people I've talked to about the concept were also really interested in a site that handles this kind of connection.

Note: the site is on a dev-server on PagodaBox, which means it needs to boot up (takes 15-20 seconds) explaining the load time.

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

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Greaterskies, http://greaterskies.com - sells posters of the sky, thousands of stars and all the planets as seen from a place and at a time. Selling PDF ($24) and printout. Seems to be getting popular as a wedding present, also for birthdays. Common lisp backend computing the posters, Python and Javascript for the rest. Very nice conversion rate, but I haven't found the time to work on improving the number of visits.

Can you describe the actual production + s&h process? I assume it's 100% outsourced?

Sure. When you buy the printout the PDF gets computed, and an email is automatically sent to a US-based print service provider who prints and ships. You can also download the PDFs. When you buy the PDF only (the most popular version, despite the fact that the price of the printout is very competitive) everything is of course automated.

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

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post #201

http://VisualizeUs.com - social bookmarking for pictures. * Last month stats: ~2.5 million pageviews, 846,000 uniques. * Highly engaged community with ~210k signed up users (all organically, 0 paid marketing) and 7 million pictures in db. * Expenses ~$400 (hosting and outsourcing). * Making ~$2k/mo profit, mainly from advertising and photo stock affiliates. * Established since 2007, lots of SEO potential and very poo…

Has Pinterest made a major impact on your business?

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

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I would like to work on a side project with the owner of the side project to make it better or larger in terms of performance and features-set. If anyone interested in collaborating on the pre-existing side project let me know :)

Also if you want to sell your assets of your side projects(if it reached the start-up state) you can use the http://shutdown.io/ (which was posted before few weeks on HN)

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

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TuneFind -- http://www.tunefind.com/ Trailing Month, Google Analytics: 1.9 MM sessions, 1.2 MM users, 8.3 MM pageviews Age - 9 years. Database of ~60k song appearances in TV and movies. Great SEO -- Google search for " music"

I have experience with high traffic music sites. What price range would you be interested in?

Are all the songs user submitted or do you use content scrapers?

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