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 User9821 » Sat, May 03, 2014, 6:33 AM UTC

knodi123 wrote: post #320

I was a developer/founder once. I partnered with another developer, and we made a tool that would track the ranking of your site in regards to certain search terms, to a.) figure out whether your SEO guy was worth the money, and b.) figure out which SEO tricks worked best. We weren't really making any money ,so I sold out my half of the company to a business guy. My former dev partner then went on with the business g…

What changed after the new business partner showed up? How did it transform from basically breaking even to half of a million a year?

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

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Post by bazookaBen » Sat, May 03, 2014, 6:43 AM UTC

usaphp wrote: post #212

http://zbugs.com - the little project which was even on a front page of HN, was featured on many websites has couple thousand monthly visitors only.

interested. how do I contact you?

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

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Post by bazookaBen » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:05 AM UTC

soupsranjan wrote: post #321

Gingerly ( http://www.ginger.ly ) is a Location-based Expense Tracking Android app that we've built on the side: think Mint meets Foursquare. USP is our ambient sensing platform which shows you how much you've spent at a business, and your receipts for that place the moment you arrive there. 16K+ downloads and makes us about $50-100 per month (varies based on the month). Free app but Monetization is via in-app purcha…

Can't find your email in your profile. Can you re-add it?

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

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Post by bazookaBen » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:08 AM UTC

verkaufer wrote: post #184

http://www.randompokemongenerator.com It does okay, gets about 40,000 unique pageviews per month. Analytics says about 60% of those are unique. I'm cleaning up the code right now and trying to figure out how to get a higher RPM. I'm averaging about $100/month from this site. But I'm toying with selling it.

how can I contact you?

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

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Post by bazookaBen » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:59 AM UTC

techvibe2 wrote: post #141

I have built this site almost 6 years ago. Twitter users can tweet texts with more than 140 chrs. http://www.fullstory.co/ The site according to google analytics about 50k visits monthly.

how do I contact you?

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

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Post by h1d » Sat, May 03, 2014, 10:37 AM UTC

I've built DeskPortal which is an application platform on web browsers years ago taking years as my hobby project. Initial version is pretty much complete but didn't have the time to go commercial or find user interests and pretty much kept it as is sitting these days.

http://deskportal.com/ - LP

http://demo.deskportal.org/ - Demo

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

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Post by arfliw » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:39 PM UTC

darrennix wrote: post #50

arfliw wrote: post #3

http://warsocial.com HTML5 game similar to risk. Rails/Angular/Redis/Heroku Took over two years to build. Now it just needs a bunch of players. Monetization isn't built in yet but it's ready for it.

This is just KDice, is it not?

Inspired by KDice, yes. There are some key differences in game play, rules and mechanics, that were meant to improve upon KDice's shortcomings.

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

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Post by quickpost » Sat, May 03, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

butler14 wrote: post #408

quickpost wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Built in Django. Fully automated. I haven't touched it in 6months or more and it just keeps running. And you are correct, not a huge search footprint due to the lack of unique / authoritative content, but it's got good rankings where it matters - "mma news aggregator" => #1. :)

zero appreciable search demand for that phrase (global, english)

That's not what my analytics say.

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

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Post by enigmabomb » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:06 AM UTC

I spent 6 months building http://KillSwit.ch and really enjoyed the process, but I don't have time for it anymore because of QuiQui.me

It's written in Laravel 4.1 and uses Amazon Web Services. I'll sell the domain, all the code, and all the marketing assets.

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

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Post by matt_oriordan » Sun, May 04, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

http://easybacklog.com is a backlog management tool. It is fundamentally different to many existing tools such as Pivotal or Sprintly in that its focus is to provide scrum masters and product owners with a tool to estimate, and manage the delivery of a project as opposed to the ongoing endless development of a business. This type of workflow is needed for freelancers and agencies who are typically trying to deliver a service at a fixed cost or fixed scope. Easybacklog provides tools to compare the backlog at points in time and thus renegotiate at each sprint with the client in regards to scope or price.

I have thousands of active users and have asked many of them whether they would be willing to pay, and they are. Unfortunately I just don't have the time now or for the foreseeable future to add a few highly requested features and billing systems for the product. This is an ideal product for someone to pick up, add a few of the really needed features, and start charging existing happy customers.

Get in touch with http://mattheworiordan.com if this interests anyone who has some time to develop a Rails / Backbone application, and wants to create a revenue stream for themselves very quickly.