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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

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Sort of related: I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project. link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks

lol, I would have been happy to pay twice as much for that, as you had organic growth and paying customers. The ROI is pretty good even if you do nothing. But you did very well, congrats.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#92
post #31

Sort of related: I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project. link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks

Nice. What strategies did you use for organic growth of your website?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#93
post #31

Sort of related: I launched an app a few years ago and sold it for $8.5k. I wish more people knew that exits don't always mean $1m. There's a big market for small project. link to the project: http://www.germanespitia.com/habit-streaks

Say it again! I learned this lesson a few years ago while talking to a guy who'd had a few "exits" totaling $200k or less. It blew my mind. Wait, you can sell for less than millions?! It led me to sell an app for $7k instead of letting it die a slow death desperately hoping for millions to fall out of the sky. Great perspective shift for me.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#94
post #86

http://trybtg.com/ Currently has about 100 DAU, high engagement (avg. 10 sessions per week per user). Users tend to stick around and the feedback is all positive. The desktop software is the iteration that found fit with our users. You'd need Dota to try it, or you can watch the demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_plCQi6PE I have a set of paid features ready to launch, but I don't have resulting revenue num…

Hey I'm a 4.2k player and a developer. I like your app's interface more than dotapicker.com. I noticed both had same suggestions for a given set of heroes. Is the source of data for both of these apps same?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#95
post #2

Can we please make this a recurring question Wouldn't it be worth doing a trial period of manual posts first, to gauge the amount of interest?

I do like this thread. It's sort of a nice shopping spree and it's surprising there isn't already a startup that does this.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#96
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Custom Woocommerce implementation on Wordpress. Custom plugins for automating things such as shipping labels, packing slips, etc. Hosted on DigitalOcean. No drop shipping. We spend about 20 to 30 minutes per week packing and shipping inventory from our garage.

How do you generate relevant traffic out of interest?

Search engines, social media, videos, content, etc. A variety of different ways.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

#97
post #86

http://trybtg.com/ Currently has about 100 DAU, high engagement (avg. 10 sessions per week per user). Users tend to stick around and the feedback is all positive. The desktop software is the iteration that found fit with our users. You'd need Dota to try it, or you can watch the demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_plCQi6PE I have a set of paid features ready to launch, but I don't have resulting revenue num…

Hey I'm a 4.2k player and a developer. I like your app's interface more than dotapicker.com. I noticed both had same suggestions for a given set of heroes. Is the source of data for both of these apps same?

Thanks! They are different sources, I use OpenDota's open source software to gather matches and dump them into Google's BigQuery for processing using our own algorithms we've created. The algorithms are run against 15 to 30 million matches depending on how deep in the patch is.

My guess is we've landed on similar algorithms to DotaPicker, it's usually the set of matches we're using that makes the difference so I'm surprised the suggestions were the same.

Feel free to add me on Steam if you'd like: http://steamcommunity.com/id/sklink

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

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I've got a SaaS system that generates a small physical newsletter that I've been running for the past 3 years. Averaging consistent $600 / month profit w/ no marketing. I've always intended to grow it (and think $2k / mo profit would be easy to achieve), but haven't put in the marketing effort as I've been busy with other businesses. It takes about 1 day a month of work, but that could easily be outsourced. Open to s…

What's the url?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?

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post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey I'm a 4.2k player and a developer. I like your app's interface more than dotapicker.com. I noticed both had same suggestions for a given set of heroes. Is the source of data for both of these apps same?

Thanks! They are different sources, I use OpenDota's open source software to gather matches and dump them into Google's BigQuery for processing using our own algorithms we've created. The algorithms are run against 15 to 30 million matches depending on how deep in the patch is. My guess is we've landed on similar algorithms to DotaPicker, it's usually the set of matches we're using that makes the difference so I'm su…

Are you partitioning the matches by MMR, or just doing global suggestions?

I ask because this always seems the biggest weakness of all the existing picking tools. A 1k player and a 5k player throwing the same lineup into a picking tool should ideally get dramatically different suggestions, both because of their own skill and the skill of their teammates.

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