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

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Post by glitch273 »

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…

That's close to a 90x monthly revenue multiple. You're assuming that you will keep making that amount every month but how are you getting your traffic? If it's from search engines, a Panda update or competitors showing up could reverse that very quickly especially if you put in "zero" hours of work.

Is Yelp not in those countries yet?

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

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Post by rk0567 »

proexploit wrote: post #127
rk0567 wrote: post #42

http://railyo.com - I wanted to create an elance/odesk especially for Rails developers/freelancers! (you may know it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083426 ) The developer base is growing, ~200 awesome rails developers have registered. Few companies have posted job offers, so it's also generating some revenue, but I'm loosing interest due to the less no of job offers - so basically I'm failing at marketing…

It's a good site and with the popularity of Ruby/Rails, I think it could be very popular. The biggest problem right now is that there's little incentive to actually pay you, so it's essentially a directory. You're already telling me these developers are pre-approved, so I can assume they're pretty good. As they have personal websites and Github profiles links on most users, what's to prevent me from just going throug…

Thanks for the suggestion :)

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

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Post by gillis »

prakster wrote: post #155
gillis wrote: post #92

I made http://imdo.in about 4 months ago - It lets you easily import everything from all your social profiles and have them displayed on one page. I would consider offers for either just the domain or both the domain and code. (anything around $50 works)

What's the tech stack?

php, mysql and js for loading the social network data

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

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Post by beneth »

tjosten wrote: post #84
alexkearns wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks really good. Why don't you offer a 30 day free trial and then charge a monthly or yearly fee. If you don't try to make money out of it, you won't make money out of it.

Because it's not that easy: Who do I charge? The one person who signs up is able to create accounts in a private environment, e.g. for his fellow students, so this one is most likely the one to charge. This person would most likely be the class representative student. But I don't think this one is willing to pay money for all his fellow students using DocMan in his private environment, so.. that's the circle. The sof…

Instead of charging students, you want to be charging the schools for licenses that cover all of their students.

Or, better yet, charge lawyers, REO brokers, etc where there is a large pool of customers that will not be phased to pay you a reasonable amount monthly and give it away to schools for free.

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

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Post by eliot_sykes »

Missed Connections http://www.missedconnections.com - site with traffic

Umbrella.co.uk - domain

Wallet.co.uk - domain

Towel.co.uk - domain

If you're interested in any of these email me via my contact details at jetbootlabs.com and please demonstrate in your email that you're a serious buyer to get a reply.

Time has shown the majority of enquiries are domainer lowballers so I'm inclined to ignore most interested parties unless I'm convinced early on you're serious.

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

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Post by ComNik »

hbbio wrote: post #164
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).

Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it? It's nicely built.

Thank you :) This was my first real web-project, so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to get 1000 uniques / month and hoped they would generate around $100+ / month. I'm currently at a tenth of that, so the general ratio was achieved :)

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

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Post by petersouth »

whitehat2k9 wrote: post #163
petersouth wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this something that a novice nube like me can manipulate into a different subject contracting site? Also could it easy be copied into dozens of other websites with little technical savvy?

Yes, what sorts of different subjects did you have in mind?

I dunno, maybe collectibles or lawn-mowing.
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