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

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Post by simonbarker87 » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

antlan wrote: post #97

simonbarker87 wrote: post #66

http://www.oneqstn.com is a simple, accountless survey web app. Lots of room for growth and expansion but I don't have the time to put into it. A few hundred questions have been asked over the last year and it's had a couple of traffic spikes but nothing serious. If not interested in purchasing then I am looking for someone to work with me on the marketing/traffic building side of things and would happily offer a 50:…

What's the tech stack ? I think this would be useful information for all the sellers to include, as many people reading here will be programmers.

Good point, thanks.

PHP: Codeigniter MYSQL Javascript: jQuery

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

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Post by AlexMuir » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

http://thebigeat.com

Generates around $8k per year in Adsense and slowly rising. Plenty of potential to actually do something with it.

I wouldn't even think of selling it for less than $60k as it's an asset returning 13% on that amount.

People will say, "Yeah, but that's a ridiculous amount to ask." I agree, but where am I going to invest the proceeds that will return me that amount. This is a site that's consistently increased revenue for the past 7 years with close to zero hours of work.

If you offered me $40k tomorrow I'd say no. Because I'll make that in four years, and still have more to go.

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

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Post by darkslave » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #125

darkslave wrote: post #118

Potatoss.com all of the games, you can find them in the AppStore. I made it with a friend a couple of months ago, it did like 250k downloads but anyway we couldn't fight against huge companies like disney or rovio, there is too many bad things happening under the hood of the AppStore. Specially what some companies call a burst... did you know that some Chinese companies who will download your games millions of time f…

Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. While I do think many game developers on the App Store resort to shady tactics, I think it's a poor excuse to not succeed. Looking at your game on iTunes, it strikes me that you have a lot of bad reviews, so perhaps there are things to work on in your gameplay, before you start worrying if your competitors are cheating. Also, looks to me like your game was downloaded by a lot of So…

I never say we fail...it's been an awesome journey. For a couple of guys in Costa Rica, this are things that nobody else had ever done. Building that game was the best thing I did, period. http://www.dreamitventures.com/portfolio_companies/sabor-stu... http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/pota-toss/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293831888/pota-toss-amaz... https://www.parse.com/customers/case_study/potatoss http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/08/22/pota-toss-launches-beta-...

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

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Post by dualogy » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

cthackers wrote: post #73

Sneaky. You made yourself a list of free ideas right here.

Yay! "Free ideas" that ... didn't work out, have no market and are now eagerly flipped for peanuts. Sneaky indeed ;)

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

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Post by codesink » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

I spent quite a bit of time on AppLens, an icon matching app for iOS (take a photo of an icon --> download the app).

The backend (in C) is pretty fast and stable (current uptime 384 days) and it can be used for other types of images (i.e. not icons but photos, covers, etc.).

App Store link: http://bit.ly/Szmy7X

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

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Post by jtchang » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

AlexMuir wrote: post #132

http://thebigeat.com Generates around $8k per year in Adsense and slowly rising. Plenty of potential to actually do something with it. I wouldn't even think of selling it for less than $60k as it's an asset returning 13% on that amount. People will say, "Yeah, but that's a ridiculous amount to ask." I agree, but where am I going to invest the proceeds that will return me that amount. This is a site that's consistentl…

What's it written in? Pretty fast!

Also browsing through it I don't even see your ads?

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

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Post by rafaqueque » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

Selling canileave.com entirely. Cheap price.

Get in touch c.rafael.s.albuquerque@gmail.com

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

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Post by andrewljohnson » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

darkslave wrote: post #133

andrewljohnson wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. While I do think many game developers on the App Store resort to shady tactics, I think it's a poor excuse to not succeed. Looking at your game on iTunes, it strikes me that you have a lot of bad reviews, so perhaps there are things to work on in your gameplay, before you start worrying if your competitors are cheating. Also, looks to me like your game was downloaded by a lot of So…

I never say we fail...it's been an awesome journey. For a couple of guys in Costa Rica, this are things that nobody else had ever done. Building that game was the best thing I did, period. http://www.dreamitventures.com/portfolio_companies/sabor-stu... http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/pota-toss/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293831888/pota-toss-amaz... https://www.parse.com/customers/case_study/potatoss http://…

It seems like a great accomplishment, and I respect that. But if your takeaway was that it's too hard to compete with the cheaters, I'm not sure that was the right lesson to learn. Maybe I just don't understand that dark depths of the game market.

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

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Post by simonbarker87 » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

ComNik wrote: post #75

simonbarker87 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking about something like this a couple of days ago for Kindle books.

That is an interesting idea, although, IIRC, there was something about Kindle content with the affiliate program...

Disappointing, either way it would be useful ...

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

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Post by AlexMuir » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #136

AlexMuir wrote: post #132

http://thebigeat.com Generates around $8k per year in Adsense and slowly rising. Plenty of potential to actually do something with it. I wouldn't even think of selling it for less than $60k as it's an asset returning 13% on that amount. People will say, "Yeah, but that's a ridiculous amount to ask." I agree, but where am I going to invest the proceeds that will return me that amount. This is a site that's consistentl…

What's it written in? Pretty fast! Also browsing through it I don't even see your ads?

It's PHP on Yii Framework, with quite a bit of page caching. I do love Rails, but I miss the kickarse performance of PHP. Ads are there, are you sure you don't have adblock on?