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

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

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Post by Ovid »

I've been writing a Web-based, multi-player text adventure which is sort of a cross between Firefly and Mad Max, spanning all star systems in a 20 light-year radius around the remains of Sol. I have a lot of the core work done, with a Perl/Postgres/Catalyst/PSGI stack, but then my daughter was born and my wife and I are starting our own company. If you've ever heard of http://www.torn.com/, you have a rough idea about game play. The main difference is, aside from the background, this one is heavily story-based.

My intent was to make it free to play, but given significant advantages to those willing to make a minimal $5 donation per month.

I've always wanted to finish it, but I never found enough volunteers to help.

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

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Post by derwildemomo »

I've written a HTTP Proxy for Mac. nothing special so far, but it's intented to be used for debugging &&/|| development. It features a quite flexibel filter/modifier architecture, a working gui and a non-existant memory footprint. Since I just didn't have the dedication to finish the project but still think there's a market for that, I'd gladly sell it for a fair price. If anyone is interested in just seeing the app (which is unstable), just let me know.

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

lazyfunctor wrote: post #7
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

http://nsfw.in/ - good intention but I think I'm not the right person to own it. http://onebucketlist.com/ - born out of a Startup Weekend India version - In50Hrs.

How is http://nsfw.in different from any other URL shortener?

It warns you before sending you off to the destination URL.

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

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Post by downandout »

I created a skill-gaming-for-cash site called Cash Champs (http://www.cashchamps.com). Site is offline since we have no marketing, but 3 games and the site are done, and we have a very rare PayPal account that is authorized by PayPal to process skill-gaming transactions. The PayPal thing alone took nearly $20K in legal fees. If anyone is interested, let me know.

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

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Post by deiu »

I've developed http://whos.it. The source code has a really nice architecture - it supports more TLDs than other services like it - it supports web scraping for TLDs that don't have a standard whois server - parsing data is also implemented. I wanted to convert it into a API to sell subscriptions, but I already busy with other projects.

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

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Post by perlgeek »

In 2007 I built http://sudokugarden.de/ (German and English site about sudoku, with online playing, highscores, and a loyal user base, about 30k visitors/months).

In good times I made ~2.5k EUR/year with ads (mostly text links to boost other site's pagerank), but I lack the time and motivation to market it right now. It's zero maintenance.

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

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Post by aberatiu »

deiu wrote: post #17

I've developed http://whos.it . The source code has a really nice architecture - it supports more TLDs than other services like it - it supports web scraping for TLDs that don't have a standard whois server - parsing data is also implemented. I wanted to convert it into a API to sell subscriptions, but I already busy with other projects.

Your service tells me that my website is available for registration. that's not correct.
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