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

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Post by fiatjaf »

I have this photo-portfolio-profile-builder: http://pflio.herokuapp.com/

It supports custom themes (there is just one for now) and more customization can be build upon it with little code.

I wrote it for a customer who wanted a simple portfolio website (just the pictures and some pages for textual information), so I made this CMS-like thing to edit the page and it could be marketed for more customers etc.

But I don't have any hope it will get a customer, so its interface is still uncomplete (and it is in portuguese), but it works (with a custom domain). What would you do with it?

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

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Post by Igglyboo »

grimtrigger wrote: post #104
ValG wrote: post #69

Chain Reaction iOS/Android game: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chain-reaction-connect-dots/... Makes ~$1500+ in revenue on a monthly basis. Pretty low maintenance, just add levels every other week to keep engagement (~2 hours a month of work). 2600+ reviews, average 4.5 stars. Box It: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/box-it!-dodge-the-dots-free/... Another game, jezzball clone. 200+ 4.5 stars. ~$300 per month revenu…

How do you make money on Chain Reaction?

Any free app either has in-app purchases or advertisements. This app has both(you can just look at the app store listing and see this).

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

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Post by ronreiter »

notsosmart wrote: post #117
ronreiter wrote: post #35

http://www.learnpython.org + the rest of my tutorials I generate quite a lot of revenue for them from ads (about 500,000 hits per month), but they have so much potential and I don't have time to invest.

I might be interested. Can you please email me basic revenue and traffic data?

sure

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

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Post by clamprecht »

darrennix wrote: post #42

http://RVmenu.com is hotels.com for RV rentals. High conversion rate but very little traffic. Needs lots of SEO love.

Related, maybe an area to expand into: I've always thought an "AirBnb for RVs" made sense. How many people buy RVs, use them for a while, then let them sit for 20 years while they devalue? Just a thought.

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

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Post by michaelt »

wingerlang wrote: post #91
AlexMuir wrote: post #75

The Big Eat http://www.thebigeat.com Menu and takeaway listings (mainly in the UK). Makes around $6,000 per year of Adsense. It's been fairly untouched since I started it in 2006. Has good pagerank for a lot of takeaway names. Costs are a Digital Ocean Droplet @ $5 a month = $60 per year.

Just wondering. You say it is basically untouched, and it generates a fair amount of revenue by itself. Why would you sell it? Why not just let is be and get the income?

Presumably because the buyer was offering a high enough multiple of the annual revenue to be tempting.

I'm sure the seller would decline $6,000 and accept $600,000. The buyer would be looking to find a point in between that both buyer and seller were happy with.

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

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Post by mountaineer »

marban wrote: post #52
mountaineer wrote: post #41

http://truerobin.com Private Group Classifieds. Facebook groups are increasingly being used for private craigslists, but they are not well-suited to buying/selling. There is no search, no alerts, and are very time consuming to manage. Built with Rails 4, Postgres, Resque. Got it to a functioning point and then had to switch gears to other clients/projects/work. The plan was to charge individuals for the tools (search…

Tried this with a VC round a year ago. Good luck, you'll need it ;)

Sorry to hear it shut down, it had been one of the validating points, that there is something to be done with this space. Less competition I suppose?

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

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Post by feifan »

cupsofcocoa.com

A blog with iOS programming tutorials starting from Objective-C itself and installing Xcode to networking and graphics. Strong ratings on content and writing quality.

I started the site in high school — I was teaching myself iOS development and realized there wasn't a site that started from ground zero. So I set out to fix that.

30k monthly visits at its peak (without any promotion), but since coming to college I haven't had time to create much content. Now getting 10k monthly visits.

Been around 2.5 years. Would love if anyone's interested in writing some posts, updating existing content, or taking over the mission of teaching people to program on iOS.

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