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Re: Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea.

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I do apps for a living for people. If you'd like to talk, an email address that reaches me is in my profile. (I really wish HN had private messages...) On that note: You should think about sticking up a email address in your profile kapauldo

I agree, I wish HN had private messages, and I confess, I didn't know I had a profile on HN. I'll update and get in touch with you.

Make sure you guys put your email in the about part of your profile (you will see it written twice, once in the email slot, once in the about box).

Re: Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea.

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It seems that auctomatic is just the app you are looking for. I'd LOVE something like this for Craigslist!!

is it auctomatic.com? all the links are dead.

After the company was purchased by Live Current Media, the team was split up to work on various other projects (Cricket.com, Perfume.com) while Auctomatic was left to languish.

Eventually the servers and services got shuffled around, and at some point stopped working, but since it wasn't profitable and there was no engineering time to work on it, it was left broken and unusable. Now, all the employees that knew anything about it have left (save one), so there's no one to make it work again.

Too bad, it was a pretty cool idea.

Re: Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea.

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is it auctomatic.com? all the links are dead.

After the company was purchased by Live Current Media, the team was split up to work on various other projects (Cricket.com, Perfume.com) while Auctomatic was left to languish. Eventually the servers and services got shuffled around, and at some point stopped working, but since it wasn't profitable and there was no engineering time to work on it, it was left broken and unusable. Now, all the employees that knew anyth…

If it was a PC app, you could crack it and make it work again. This is just a waste of effort all round.

Re: Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, I wish HN had private messages, and I confess, I didn't know I had a profile on HN. I'll update and get in touch with you.

Make sure you guys put your email in the about part of your profile (you will see it written twice, once in the email slot, once in the about box).

Thanks, this comment helped me fix it! (My profile now has an email to reach me)

Re: Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea.

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I do apps for a living for people. If you'd like to talk, an email address that reaches me is in my profile. (I really wish HN had private messages...) On that note: You should think about sticking up a email address in your profile kapauldo

You have nothing in your profile.

Thanks! Did not realize it needed to be in about. It is there now
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