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

#101

Post by ComNik » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:33 PM UTC

namwen wrote: post #99

ComNik wrote: post #40

http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).

I really like this idea and signed up for an account. There's something wrong with your confirmation email message. The link I am pointed to clicking is "/confirm/longstringofcharacters", which is neither a link or functioning path when appended to rankique.com. Definitely come up with a better name. I'm not sure how it's supposed to be pronounced, which makes memorization and spelling even more difficult. Good Luck!

Thanks for the bug, I'll look into that. And yes, I still don't know what I was thinking when choosing the name...

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

#102

Post by ComNik » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #85

ComNik wrote: post #40

http://www.rankique.com/ is a price-tracking site for Amazon. It would probably need a renaming and some SEO-love, as it's currently generating about 5$/month (with zero time spent on it). Was once supposed to evolve into a better product search engine, but I've lost interest a while ago (except for personal use, it really can save a lot of money).

I'm interested in this, but I don't see your email on your profile (I don't see any emails, actually). Is HN actually publishing the emails? I have vague recollections of that being turned off at some point.

I'm not sure about the hn-profile :/ just send me a mail to me@nikolasgoebel.com :)

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

#103

Post by toddmorey » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

mcrittenden wrote: post #33

http://fileslap.com is a file sharing site with built in file preview that's built on django. Files are stored at S3 and billing is handled by cheddargetter. Eager to sell due to me losing interest about a year ago. Email me at mikecrittenden@gmail.com

That's pretty nice. What powers the file preview? Edit: Ah, it's the Google Docs viewer. That's a handy part of the Google Docs service that a lot of site owners are not aware of.

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

#104

Post by mcrittenden » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:46 PM UTC

toddmorey wrote: post #103

mcrittenden wrote: post #33

http://fileslap.com is a file sharing site with built in file preview that's built on django. Files are stored at S3 and billing is handled by cheddargetter. Eager to sell due to me losing interest about a year ago. Email me at mikecrittenden@gmail.com

That's pretty nice. What powers the file preview? Edit: Ah, it's the Google Docs viewer. That's a handy part of the Google Docs service that a lot of site owners are not aware of.

Thanks! It depends in the file type. Most doc (pdf, doc, xls) are powered by Google doc viewer if that's what you mean.

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

#105

Post by hanula » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

http://nsfw.in/ - good intention but I think I'm not the right person to own it. http://onebucketlist.com/ - born out of a Startup Weekend India version - In50Hrs.

Great job with http://nsfw.in . I was just thinking about service like that yesterday! Nice execution too.

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

#106

Post by chrisrickard » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

http://www.coinhandle.com - a personalized handle for your Bitcoin address.

Think Bit.ly for bitcoin - although you can administer your Coinhandle address if your Bitcoin address ever changes.

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

#107

Post by TallboyOne » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

jeremymcanally wrote: post #76

I'd entertain offers for http://rss.io (including all the stuff with it like code and the Twitter account @rss). I have a full Google Reader-esque reader built and basically ready to deploy (billing code etc. included), but I likely don't really have time to maintain it/get it properly setup anytime soon. :( E-mail me if you're interested, but keep in mind I've invested a good bit of time and capital in this thing. O…

how did you get such a good twitter account, but without any tweets on it except for a month or two ago?

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

#108

Post by primaryobjects » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

gorancandrlic wrote: post #32

We've created a SEOCrawler - http://seocrawler.co - take a look.

WhaleEye SEO Spider - http://www.whalei.com

I created the same thing a year ago. I underestimated the CPU load and number of pages on many sites (especially e-commerce sites). It doesn't take many crawls to quickly fill a db.

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

#109

Post by TallboyOne » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

downandout wrote: post #16

I created a skill-gaming-for-cash site called Cash Champs ( http://www.cashchamps.com ). Site is offline since we have no marketing, but 3 games and the site are done, and we have a very rare PayPal account that is authorized by PayPal to process skill-gaming transactions. The PayPal thing alone took nearly $20K in legal fees. If anyone is interested, let me know.

Do standard merchant accounts not let you do that sort of thing?

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

#110

Post by sisypheanblithe » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

hackly wrote: post #95

http://www.HackerCS.com If you're still in school, like to teach CS concepts and have some time on your hand, you'll be able to grow the site and complement it with more modules while leveraging the already existent user base. Plus an opportunity to make some ad $ on the side.

What's the tech stack?