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

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http://unfriend.io - Facebook application with over 8000 monthly users, ~1000 who use it every day.

How does this work? I just tried clicking through and it returned a list of friends who added me. If there was no list of people who deleted me, does that mean it hasn't happened? Was it working properly?

^ ditto

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

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http://learnto.com - A fun side project I worked on that allows people to learn and teach (in person) with those in their community.

Target market was medium/large organizations -- think large incubators, co-working spaces, companies. These separate organizations would have their own landing pages, learning cultures, etc.

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

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http://doodlec.am/ I wish I had time to build it, but I don't. It's a simple idea, where we had moderately good execution and big ideas for the future. Future plans were to expand to Doodle Packs, with themed artwork (also for sale, perhaps). The image detection code (doodle placement) was pretty hacky but functional. The app has about 10,000 downloads, maybe 1,000 active (close to 0 marketing). I envisioned updating…

I'm too busy for something like this too, but I want to work on this pretty bad because, well, embarrassingly I'm a Catwang user.

I think the 'insert randomly' is a nice feature, but if I were to work on this, I'd focus more on letting users insert their own content. Catwang sells 'Doodle Packs' but I think they're missing a couple of things which your image detection is approaching: the ability to make your own stickers (out of friends, perhaps) and the ability to draw on the image (like Snapchat).

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

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I'm selling RearView (www.rearviewapp.com), and android app which is similar to the Frontback app. It's been online for about 5 months and there are 11.000 registered users and 2800 uploaded photos. I haven't added any sort of monetization strategy (no free/premium version and also no ads). The only cost that it has is a fixed $20 per month of hosting on DigitalOcean.

This is interesting.

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

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http://quickseat.me/

Simple battle-tested assigned chart app for companies or venues to sell tickets to venues. At least $1m in sales has gone through it. I'll sell the code or the service for cheap, I don't have time to market it so it's just sitting there.

The coolest feature is that seat updates are "live" (using polling) to everyone, so none of that "you have 15 minutes to complete your order" crap you normally get when buying tickets. It's now a cross-platform HTML5/JS frontend, originally I made it in Flash.

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

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I'm selling RearView (www.rearviewapp.com), and android app which is similar to the Frontback app. It's been online for about 5 months and there are 11.000 registered users and 2800 uploaded photos. I haven't added any sort of monetization strategy (no free/premium version and also no ads). The only cost that it has is a fixed $20 per month of hosting on DigitalOcean.

This is interesting.

You can reach me at hboregio [at] gmail

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

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I'm selling RearView (www.rearviewapp.com), and android app which is similar to the Frontback app. It's been online for about 5 months and there are 11.000 registered users and 2800 uploaded photos. I haven't added any sort of monetization strategy (no free/premium version and also no ads). The only cost that it has is a fixed $20 per month of hosting on DigitalOcean.

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

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http://www.curate.im - content curation and discovery platform. It lets users create, share, and discover lists of links on whatever topic they want, to help people organise useful stuff and save people from having to trawl through search engine results for good links about stuff. Log in with the username 'test' and password 'test' to see the user dashboard etc :)

I really like this idea. What are your thoughts on monetization of this and getting more users on board?

Thanks! I built it last summer and posted it on a couple of forums but it's basically dead. It would be awesome if more people would use it though, in terms of monetisation I think some sort of 'Sponsored Curations' thing could work quite well, where companies can create their own lists and have them appear in users' feeds.

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

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I have a site called TwitterAudit (twitteraudit.com) that started as a side project. We just started making a bit of money on it from paid re-audits. The site gets about 40k uniques/month. There are about 150k registered users and about 250k audits.

You'll probably have to spend your first revenues on getting a non C&D-prone domain name.
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