Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?

Post by etattva » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 3:59 PM UTC

coderholic wrote: post #16

codegeek wrote: post #7

Automate as much as possible. Payments ? Slap a stripe checkout form (unless you happen to be in a country where Stripe is still not supported) or Paypal for others. Onboarding: Make it as easy and smooth as possible for clients to get started after signinup. Show them exactly where and how to start. Documentation & FAQ: Create tons of it. If a client has a question, thy should be able to resolve it through your docu…

Great advice. This is pretty much what I did when working on https://ipinfo.io on the side (now fulltime). For support tickets I use and highly recommend helpscout - it's cheap, and works well. The android and iOS apps need some work, but it's possible to do basic issue management from mobile.

Post by Xcelerate » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

adamqureshi wrote: post #31

codegeek wrote: post #7

Automate as much as possible. Payments ? Slap a stripe checkout form (unless you happen to be in a country where Stripe is still not supported) or Paypal for others. Onboarding: Make it as easy and smooth as possible for clients to get started after signinup. Show them exactly where and how to start. Documentation & FAQ: Create tons of it. If a client has a question, thy should be able to resolve it through your docu…

exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…

Post by jklein11 » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

adamqureshi wrote: post #83

_jdams wrote: post #81

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Is everything manually handled at this point? How do you collect $100 at point of sale? I guess specifically, how do you force the seller to give you $100?

Right now i send them a stripe form. Some pay via paypal. Its all manual. I just started testing $150/sold vehicle. I'm just trying to figure all this stuff out. I don't have all the answers. One guy was like, eBay charges $125 if sold then i was kinda shocked he was comparing my site to ebay, I told him we can also do $125/sold vehicle.

Post by jventura » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 9:35 PM UTC

rdegges wrote: post #48

I just sold one of my side projects, Ipify ( https://www.ipify.org/ ) for a reasonable amount of money just a month ago. It's something that I built on my free time, and ran for several years successfully. I was contacted with a purchase offer, did some negotiation, and ended up selling it several weeks later. I realize this isn't the sort of sales you were asking about in the title, but figured it might be useful in…

Post by adamqureshi » Mon, Aug 07, 2017, 1:11 PM UTC

JeffreyKaine wrote: post #87

adamqureshi wrote: post #79

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Thanks! im working on the design update. Will improve mobile nav button. Goal is to make the site stupid fast. Stupid simple.

Sorting would be nice too! (nearest to me, price low to high, etc...)