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

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Post by lucb1e »

http://PlayByLyrics.com - Searches and finds music by entering some songtext, possibly combined with the artist, album or song name.

I'm also thinking of selling this to companies like Grooveshark, Spotify, or a lyrics website. I really like the website myself and use it a lot, but it doesn't get a lot of traffic. It has some potential though, I'm quite sure of that, and if I ever continue serious development there'll also be an app. And yes, I know the design isn't very great, but it works for me for now.

If you have any interest, contact methods are on the website (see the "about" link at the bottom).

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

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Post by jasoncartwright »

mtoddh wrote: post #51

Neekanee ( http://www.neekanee.com ) - it's a job search engine that scrapes jobs directly from company websites. Everything is written in Python/Django. Right now it scrapes jobs from around 1100 different companies and has features I had always wished were available in other job search engines: ability to filter by company size, type of company (.org, .gov, ...), vacation time, etc.

Very cool, but it's not obvious how to submit a site for crawling.

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

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Post by asiekierka »

lucb1e wrote: post #111

http://PlayByLyrics.com - Searches and finds music by entering some songtext, possibly combined with the artist, album or song name. I'm also thinking of selling this to companies like Grooveshark, Spotify, or a lyrics website. I really like the website myself and use it a lot, but it doesn't get a lot of traffic. It has some potential though, I'm quite sure of that, and if I ever continue serious development there'l…

One thing I noticed is you should try to check the length of the target video - I got a 1-hour-long mashup of songs.

I'm wondering what the algorithm for this is - "Reddit" got me a rickroll, "4chan" got me a Pokemon/Belair mashup, "Hacker News" got me Lil Wayne.

...actually, you gave me an idea.

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

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Post by chaddeshon »

I have CrosswordPuzzleMaker.org. It was an attempt to copy Bingo Card Creator for crossword puzzles. I have about 300 trial accounts (with email addresses), but no paid accounts.

I'm on the second page when you Google Crossword Puzzle Maker, but that only brings in about 10 visitors/day. Getting to the first page could bring some decent traffic.

The site works, but its features right now are pretty minimal.

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

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Post by nickler »

gillis wrote: post #92

I made http://imdo.in about 4 months ago - It lets you easily import everything from all your social profiles and have them displayed on one page. I would consider offers for either just the domain or both the domain and code. (anything around $50 works)

I like this - email in profile.

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

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Post by darkslave »

Potatoss.com all of the games, you can find them in the AppStore. I made it with a friend a couple of months ago, it did like 250k downloads but anyway we couldn't fight against huge companies like disney or rovio, there is too many bad things happening under the hood of the AppStore. Specially what some companies call a burst... did you know that some Chinese companies who will download your games millions of time for money? The apps were made with cocos2d and Chipmunk for the physics engine.

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

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Post by nickler »

alexgandy wrote: post #27

I've used theGlutenless.com, a gluten-free business directory, as a testing ground for new technologies for the past few years. I built a custom bot for discovering gluten free businesses so it basically auto-populates. At the moment, I don't really have the time or motivation to do anything with it...

I know a guy who might be interested in this. email me.

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

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Post by alexkearns »

tjosten wrote: post #84
alexkearns wrote: post #77

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Looks really good. Why don't you offer a 30 day free trial and then charge a monthly or yearly fee. If you don't try to make money out of it, you won't make money out of it.

Because it's not that easy: Who do I charge? The one person who signs up is able to create accounts in a private environment, e.g. for his fellow students, so this one is most likely the one to charge. This person would most likely be the class representative student. But I don't think this one is willing to pay money for all his fellow students using DocMan in his private environment, so.. that's the circle. The sof…

I have individual teachers paying $100 a year for software I have created. You should definitely charge for that main account, or limit the functionality of the main account (ie, they can only create five private accounts) unless they upgrade. You have put a huge amount of effort into your software - and it looks really professional. You've got to charge. Or at least give people the option of being charged.
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