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

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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…

I think this is the flip side of "business guy seeks technical co-founder". I would love to see a site that partnered up developers with marketers. I can't be the only developer that realizes that they suck at marketing.

Is it really that you suck at marketing, or that you'd just rather spend time coding/building? :) I totally agree with your comment either way.

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

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Website Screenshots: http://www.bitpixels.com Serves 40 million images a month. It can generate small thumbnails or large screenshots of full-length Web pages. It runs itself and I rarely touch it, but I don't have time to improve and monetize it.

40m images a month as a free service? How much is that costing you to keep up?

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

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.igorKn...

Igor Knots and the Magonda Maze.

A mobile maze game inspired by Traffic Jam and/or Unblock me. Instead of moving items with your finger, you move a character (Igor Knots) and he must push items out of his way to clear the maze.

The game is on the Google Play Store, the Amazon App Store, and the Nook App Store. I also have a version that works on my iPhone / iPad, but never got around to uploading it to the Apple App Store. I also have the engine working in a browser.

The game got very little traction; but I never did anything to push it. The game comes with 50 levels, but I have an additional 50 designed.

I always wanted to expand the game to include more challenges and types of obstacles. But, I moved on to other things.

It was built w/ Flash/AIR.

Contact me here: http://www.jeffryhouser.com/contact.cfm

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

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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.

Can you send me 12mo traffic and revenue information. Email is in the profile. Thanks

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

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I created http://easypromocodes.com to generate business cards with promo codes for iOS apps.

The site was created with PHP, Moo.com API, the iTunes API, and the Google link shortener.

I needed this myself and never really marketed the site. I found it useful to create promo code give aways when attending trade shows for some of the other iOS apps I developed (the iJuror iPad app for attorneys is the example shown on the site).

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

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http://www.scatter.fm/ (and a mobile app) - a location based deal site and mobile app for hunting deals from nearby shops. Zero users (never launched).Available to anyone who wants to run it.

Very interested as well, can you email me details?
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