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

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Post by ejb99 »

husky wrote: post #453
AlexMuir wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I initially wanted to charge takeaways £20 a year to list their menus. No-one was interested. Over the entire life of the site I've probably had five people list a menu. I walked the streets of London and Manchester collecting menus, scanning them in and typing in all the details. It was shit. I then sent a personalised letter to each takeaway with a thumbnail of their menu asking them to register on the site and get…

That's a fascinating insight Alex. Some businesses are just not ready to be helped...

I agree, very useful insight.

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

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Post by duked »

ronreiter wrote: post #35

http://www.learnpython.org + the rest of my tutorials I generate quite a lot of revenue for them from ads (about 500,000 hits per month), but they have so much potential and I don't have time to invest.

I would be extremely happy to take over, would you please email me some stats of the website/revenue so we can discuss. contact at iphonophile.fr thanks

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

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Post by Flenser »

mirsimiki wrote: post #195

https://github.com/madprops/lindora This is an online code editor I made but im not improving it any further until it shows some interest. Some features: work directly from your server through FTP code autocompletion split windows infinitely save sessions that remember your files and layout built in file explorer with Unix-y commands tools to aid on web development vim and emacs keyboard mode very customizable appear…

Looks interesting. Had to work out that I could right-click, and CTRL+Space opened the menu. Buttons for those with the keyboard shortcuts / instructions in tooltips would have been helpful.

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

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Post by yogodoshi »

I have a bunch of side-projects too but most of them are in the limbo because there isn't someone behind it to work daily on it. They are:

- http://startya.co/ - we help non-tech people launch his MVP.

- http://drinks4.us - Drink recipes to teach you how to make drinks with what you have in your fridge!

- http://gamescom.in/ - we notify you when the game you are waiting for is released

In portuguese:

- http://xingueseuamigo.com.br - for U$ 1.50 we prank your friend anonymously via phone.

- http://ficougratis.com.br/ - we email you when the app that YOU want is temporarily free.

- http://estoujogando.com.br - a startup that didint make enough money and turned into a side-project. Its a brazilian social network for gamers.

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

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Post by atx512 »

Have a site called ApartmentFetch.com that's been running as a side project for a couple years. Get's about 50-100 SEO clicks a day and have had an Adwords campaign running for quite some time that can generate a lot more traffic than that. Used to monetize it from sending leads to 3rd party apartment sites but some of those relationships dried up. If someone was willing to put the time in to add the ability to charge apartments directly (along with Adsense, etc) could be back to generating some decent revenue.

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

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Post by shazow »

Freeboots wrote: post #468
shazow wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The fundamental product I wanted to build is done, so it basically runs itself while I do business development and sales. Eventually I'll need to dive back into the code to add more features I have on the roadmap, but I work best when I "switch modes" for spans of several weeks at a time so it may be a while. :) The current revenue is about $250/mo. I've been trying to focus more on agencies with many clients…

thats really cool. My first thought was that it could be useful for people like you with several side projects that they dont really spend a lot of time actively maintaining, to get 'at a glance' stats to see that things are ticking over. To that end, you could consider a multi domain plan, $18 for 3 domains or something. I love projects like this, particularly because although the income seems modest, I frequently l…

You're absolutely right about the pricing. Right now it's still in the "throw a number down on the front page and see if it sticks" stage of pricing. I'm still banging my head against the wall to find a better pricing scheme, but it will likely be similar to what you mentioned.

Here, I'll write it down just so I can get it out of my head. :)

* Hobby: $4/mo (paid yearly), limited to 1 site and 1 recipient

* Startup: $10/mo, unlimited sites, unlimited recipients

[Custom Branding]

* Freelance: $35/mo, custom branding, 10 sites

* Studio: $85/mo, custom branding, 25 sites

* Agency: $150/mo, custom branding, 50 sites

It's a lot of plans but maybe the two-bucket separation would be manageable. Or maybe I need to do a more fluid $4-5/mo/custom-branded site plan, but pay-per-use plans typically doesn't perform as well for non-developers.

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

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Post by y1426i »

http://jokstop.com/ - I built this during opensocial days to understand virality factor and later put it up as a website. Currently get's under 300k PV/year. You can have it for $500 obo. Comes with cool domain name, PHP code, MySQL DB, Chrome offline capable extension. Email y1426i at gmail.

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

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Post by bazookaBen »

WoodenChair wrote: post #57

Poemz - anonymous poetry app for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poemz/id476811547?mt=8 Includes a web backend which allows poems from the app to be shared on social networks. http://poets-anonymous.appspot.com The app has good reviews and thousands of submitted poems in its database, backed by Parse. Monetization is through ads and the sale of credits to submit poems beyond the 5 credits you get with the app. I…

any email I can contact you at? thx
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