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

#11
http://www.secretsantagenerator.net

Lets people organize secret santa gift exchanges via e-mail, including rules about who can buy for who.

At its peak in the holiday season, gets about 10k uniques per day. Close to a million people have used it since launch in 2011.

Very easily monetizable - just provide affiliate link gift recommendations. I had intentions of doing this so many times but just never followed through and got bored with the project.

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

#16
post #10

http://json-porn.com Well known API for adult content, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. 0 seconds down time since about a year. Profitable.

Getting ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED on that URL. Edit: URL is not https, it's http. http://json-porn.com/

Welp so much for zero downtime.

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

#18
http://wordsafety.com

I made this last year, but failed to build on the initial audience... There's no revenue, so any offer will be considered.

The site was launched in August 2015 and got 79,000 pageviews in its first month. It also got some media attention which has given the site quite good search engine ranking: it is a top-3 Google result for most of the relevant keywords and search phrases.

I can also throw in the domain BabyNameCheck.com. There's no site there currently, but you could easily reuse the word check back-end from WordSafety... Just make a new baby-themed design and it could be a site that any parent would want to check out when trying to decide a name.

(Edit: Please don't post word suggestions in comments - there's a form for that on the site :))

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

#19
post #10

http://json-porn.com Well known API for adult content, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. 0 seconds down time since about a year. Profitable.

Getting ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED on that URL. Edit: URL is not https, it's http. http://json-porn.com/

Thanks for pointing this out. The actual API provides SSL encryption, the landing page however doesn't.
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