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

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Post by rahimnathwani »

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.

I'm curious: how did you get over the chicken-and-egg problem when you launched this?

How did you seed it with restaurant menus in order to attract your first users? Was there (and when?) a tipping point when you had enough eyeballs that restaurants started to add their own menus?

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

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Post by ahrens »

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.

That's awesome! I'm actually working with a kind of CAH version, could be interested in buying it. What do you want for it?

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

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Post by Skuttan »

atko wrote: post #183

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

Isnt this more a "exactly like reddit" community?

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

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Post by sdotsen »

Thinking of selling https://www.ikeepm.com.

- 6000+ registered users - 26,000+ items entered - 3000+ documents saved - 500+ visits per month (Someone good in marketing can boost this)

It's an online home inventory software. It was featured on Lifehacker among other sites related to home organization. My wife and I had a baby last year so I never had time to market it properly. A lot of folks want an iPhone/Andoird app but I'm not the right person for that.

Someone good at marketing can probably have this take off. No other competitors are as easy to use as iKeepm.

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

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Post by rihegher »

dylanwenzlau wrote: post #292

imgflip.com - meme & gif creation/sharing site Traffic: 2.5M visits/mo, 5.5M pageviews/mo Revenue: 9K/mo Cost to run: 1.5K/mo The heart of the site is the Meme and GIF generators, best on the net if you ask me ;). Pro subscriptions are the biggest source of revenue. I'm not sure I would say "want to sell", but I spend most of my time on a much larger project/team, so I don't give it the attention it deserves. For tha…

Really nice site!

I'd like to have some more infos, Could you send me an email as I don't have yours? vincent at 13pass.com

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

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Post by ajerez »

marban wrote: post #368
vespig wrote: post #201

http://VisualizeUs.com - social bookmarking for pictures. * Last month stats: ~2.5 million pageviews, 846,000 uniques. * Highly engaged community with ~210k signed up users (all organically, 0 paid marketing) and 7 million pictures in db. * Expenses ~$400 (hosting and outsourcing). * Making ~$2k/mo profit, mainly from advertising and photo stock affiliates. * Established since 2007, lots of SEO potential and very poo…

Has Pinterest made a major impact on your business?

Absolutely yes, although we opened VisualizeUs like 4 years before Pinterest, Pinterest quickly took the advantage for social bookmarking for pictures.
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