Proposal: I have the cash and reasonable business/tech experience, but not the bandwidth to run a "full-time side project" ( does that term make sense to anyone other than me? ). Would consider putting up capital to fund purchase and an initial operating budget if a willing and capable partner presents himself or herself to operate the site. I would take a "board of directors" - type role ( periodic advice and oversight, but not involved day to day ). You would be the CEO. If you'd be interested in something like this, shoot me a message and we'll talk.
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#452I've always kicked around the idea of selling Tubalr, if anyone's interested shoot me an email(cjstewart88@gmail.com with an offer. - URL: http://www.tubalr.com - Age: 3 1/2 years - Cost to run: $9 - Registered Users: 28,009 - It's been wrote about on sites like mashable, techcrunch, fast company, the next web, etc. .. it's been on the front page of hackernews and reddit. Google for "tubalr" to read around the web. -…
I'm in a similar situation. I built a music site for a uni project, and have over 100,000 monthly page views but no real time to work on it. Would love some funding, or for someone to take it over and help out with student loans. Have you had any luck trying to sell it?
Is there any way to get in contact? I might be able to help.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#453Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I initially wanted to charge takeaways £20 a year to list their menus. No-one was interested. Over the entire life of the site I've probably had five people list a menu. I walked the streets of London and Manchester collecting menus, scanning them in and typing in all the details. It was shit. I then sent a personalised letter to each takeaway with a thumbnail of their menu asking them to register on the site and get…
That's a fascinating insight Alex. Some businesses are just not ready to be helped...
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#454Well, 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.
Yep - I'd also love to see this
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in a similar situation. I built a music site for a uni project, and have over 100,000 monthly page views but no real time to work on it. Would love some funding, or for someone to take it over and help out with student loans. Have you had any luck trying to sell it?
Is there any way to get in contact? I might be able to help.
I'll send you an email tomorrow. Is the email address on your profile correct?
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#456Over 25,000 sites have already installed KejeK.
We're talking on a social sharing tool that shows those using it how many people actually see what they share. We've pushed it for some time, and today it's installed on more than 25,000 sites.
We're selling it via SideProjector (BTW, for those here who said there has to be a site for selling side projects..) : https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/709/kejek-soc...
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#457http://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.
I had a very similar idea. I can't find your contact info, but you can contact me at henry at henrylin.me if you want to discuss this further.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you currently monetizing this? What is your contact info?
I recently re-launched w/ a new design (frontend and backend). Also implemented Stripe. I have one user who signed up for the Plus account. i'm seeing more and more companies sign up. The two most requests are mobile apps and a multi-property feature. I think there's a bigger market for property mgmt companies. sam_at_echoio.com
One out of 6000 is paying?
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#459I 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…
Love the concept. What's your userbase like? I'd be interested in buying it/taking it over. Edit: I see you have it listed on SideProjectors. Is $25,000 correct or a typo? Doesn't quite line up well with 10 users a month :)
Hi the price on SideProjectors is a typo - I need to fix that. No wonder no one has jumped on it :)
The usage is really quite low - I never spent any time marketing it unfortunately. It was easier for me to use the site than manually create the collateral that I wanted so I built it.
If you'd like more details feel free to email me (address in my profile).
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
#460Recurify - http://www.recurify.co With Recurify you can make any order a recurring order. Subscribe to anything!
What is your contact information? Can you email me at imtu80 at hotmail.