https://flownote.io
Note-taking/sketching SaaS. I don't have the time/skills to market it properly right now.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
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#22https://flownote.io Note-taking/sketching SaaS. I don't have the time/skills to market it properly right now.
This is very well-done, with pleasing aesthetics. Did you experiment with a free tier? How many users do you have now, if you're open to sharing that information?
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#23I would consider selling my side project/business - http://flextory.com . It's a web based data management system with a focus on features for handling inventory. I went pretty far with it and have some active customers to this day. It's just no longer what I soak time into. I've considered turning it into an open source project, but just haven't gotten around to it. Running Flextory has been an amazing experience fo…
This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?
Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead.
If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt comfortable with (or could justify the expense for). There's also the issue that Flextory is a bit hard to sell. People I have demoed directly to for their specific purpose have been easily sold and were able to justify the value. However, when I can't directly demo, I get a lot of comments about it being too expensive to justify it. Even people that were sold have iffyness on justifying the cost (despite things like netdoc, which Flextory pretty much outperforms, costing in the thousands range). I've considered lowering my prices, but if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring in new customers.
One reason I was considering open sourcing it (apart from a desire to give back to the comunity a bit), is that I could use that as a platform/advertising for selling the sass portion of it.
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#24http://ampoll.com My simple real-time polling website. Built on Node (fully rebuilt from PHP). Currently gets around 1500-3000 visitors per week. Got bored of developing and marketing it, looking for someone to take over.
mmm, I actually quite like the site though I can't think of a monetisation strategy for it.
How are you getting your traffic and what is the trajectory?
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#25http://www.startuputility.com Gets around 1500 visitors a week. I haven't touched it since November. Hosted on Heroku, Play Framework, S3 to host the images. Probably a cool use case for it if someone wanted to invest more time in it. I'm pretty busy working on other things I'm more interested in. If interested, shoot me an email.
Your website is currently down.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I don't think it's probably down (I was able to reach it), but probably timed out due to the limits of Heroku's free tier.
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#26I'd consider selling http://getplangram.com
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your website is currently down.
Hey, thanks for the heads up. I don't think it's probably down (I was able to reach it), but probably timed out due to the limits of Heroku's free tier.
It's strange, I can view your website with Chrome but not Firefox, and with Chrome the pictures are not loading.
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#28I'm totally up for selling http://sitestalker.net in case somebody could use it.
please drop me an email at stevemaarten at g.
I posted a couple of questions on your Flippa posting, but never got a response, and I'm very interested in your app.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#29http://ampoll.com My simple real-time polling website. Built on Node (fully rebuilt from PHP). Currently gets around 1500-3000 visitors per week. Got bored of developing and marketing it, looking for someone to take over.
mmm, I actually quite like the site though I can't think of a monetisation strategy for it. How are you getting your traffic and what is the trajectory?
Regarding monetisation - I've tried getting into Google AdSense but they would not like the content on the website. Tried a few other ad networks but they all looked like crooks and just decided on keeping the whole thing ad free for the time being :)
Most of the traffic that came in when I was working on it came from Reddit. Looks like, currently, the traffic also comes from mostly Reddit (over 40%), Twitter and Facebook (9-10% each).
Currently, the traffic does seem to have settled and is pretty low. But that's considering that I'm not putting any more work since I'm more interested in newer projects.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?
Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead. If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt com…
My first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.