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

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Post by lavamantis »

asm wrote: post #138
qsun wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it looks pretty good. Why do you want to sell it?

It was written to scratch a personal itch; never as a business. I'd be happy to see someone else pick it up and do something with it.

How do you delete an image once it's uploaded?

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

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Post by gillis »

qdz90 wrote: post #78

Would anyone be interested in a platform that keeps up with these side projects, like, "show", "find co-founder/co-creator", "sell"?

A couple people have mentioned SideProjectors.. I do feel as if SideProjectors doesn't have the "dynamic" aspect that even something like this thread does. If you could create something that had a dynamic feel where no listing would ever go dormant that would be great!

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

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Post by atko »

I am actively working on a "Reddit"-like community. Open source, asp.net mvc (c#,sql). Been working on it for a few weeks now. Would love to get some more devs to join and contribute. At first this was a hobby thing that started with windows forms but after finding out about asp.net mvc and entity framework, this turned into at least 3 hours a day thing :)

http://whoaverse.com

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

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Post by verkaufer »

http://www.randompokemongenerator.com

It does okay, gets about 40,000 unique pageviews per month. Analytics says about 60% of those are unique. I'm cleaning up the code right now and trying to figure out how to get a higher RPM.

I'm averaging about $100/month from this site. But I'm toying with selling it.

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

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Post by tobinharris »

ejb99 wrote: post #161
tobinharris wrote: post #46

http://yuml.me UML diagrams via a URL. 1,000,000 page views per year. We sell 2-3 enterprise licenses per year. Customers include Microsoft, Intel, Bose, Lockheed Martin and Yahoo. Struggling to find the time & energy to turn this hobby into a stronger business.

Have you set a price? Not sure how to monetize it but I like your traffic stats.

Not yet.

I also have some plans for monetizing further, but they need time or $$$.

Feel free to ping me tobin%tobinharris^com

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

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Post by aetherspawn »

DenisM wrote: post #116

Well, that's a lot of pent-up supply of side projects! It seems like a natural buyer would be someone like a student who wants to kick the tires of the whole running a small business thing, but start with a better baseline than merely "from scratch", mitigating some market risks, as it were, and reusing existing code. What I like about this is that rather than all the research and development going to waste, it's hel…

But a student has no money.

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

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Post by ghempton »

DanceInside wrote: post #179
ghempton wrote: post #162

https://deckepic.com - Cards Against Humanity meets your social graph. With a few clicks, generate a custom tailored deck for you and your friends based on Facebook data. Download a completely free version or pay for a printed version of your deck.

This is awesome. I was actually thinking of making a custom deck for my friends, but it would have been too time-consuming. But now... Maybe you could start charging a modest sum for downloading the complete PDF file? I know I would totally pay for that.

That's not a bad idea. Wish there was more time to give it the love it needs.

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

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Post by FriedPickles »

http://instantserver.io

Provisions you an ubuntu vm instantly for free with web terminal access.

It got some love here at one point [0]. Fraud, business model, and personal availability problems all struck at once, so I had to turn it off. I'm confident they could all be fixed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861749

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