Huh, if you open the dev console it says it was build with Bubble ( https://bubble.io/ ) a no-code platform.
Maybe that explains why it never loads
Tiny Acquisitions
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#72If you're interested in buying and/or selling small projects, you can typically expect to pay more than $5k for something that's making any consistent amount of money. You're also unlikely to find a great deal on a really special project on a marketplace. People who post on marketplaces like Flippa or MicroAcquire or SideProjectors (there're dozens of them) have either: 1. Realized the time it takes to maintain is no…
Or 4: realized that the real money is in being an unethical operator, and while you’re not such a person, you’re okay selling to someone that is.
See: browser extensions. Or anything with traffic that is otherwise hard to monetize.
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#735k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit? Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you co…
Haha at your edit, you really should take the advice of the people replying to you. Making 5k every few weeks is still close to a 90k a year salary and about 30k more than the US mean.
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#74Similar marketplaces: https://flippa.com/ https://microacquire.com/
A friend of mine is doing this as his day job through MicroAcquire. He's bought a few businesses so far and is writing a blog about his experience: https://microangel.so/ So far, it looks like he's having fun but putting in a lot of work. He seems to be doing a lot of little code updates and fixes when apis change or other little things break.
If I were to guess, the money is actually in writing about the experience and parlaying it to an entry into Angel or VC.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting. Do you have any personal experience or any other sources that estimate this kind of thing? I'm legitimately curious, I've often wondered what kind of revenue these types of things pull in. Obviously if they're not running ads and don't have any explicit monetization then it would be very little. But I always wonder about the ones that do.
I'd imagine hosting would not be resource-heavy so <$2/mo, that's why sites like these don't really need ads as the cost of hosting is negligible. is there any way of generating revenue other than plastering a load of ads onto a website? because doing so would cost a great number of users
> because doing so would cost a great number of users
Would it? Like, Google isn’t going to boot you for running AdSense on your site.
I’m guessing the money is made off search engine visitors rather than recurring visitors that would figure out how to do it by command line.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s typical tech salary for people with ~5+ years of experience doing something interesting.
Is it really or is it just in the SV bubble? Or is this a case of "it's not interesting if it's not in SV"? Sometimes reading HN gives me the feeling that there is no "tech" other than FAANG in the US. Or somehow every little "tech" company is just making FU money, which sounds hard to believe.
No it's not [0]. I know HN is a bubble, a rich and successful one, but it's crazy how detached from reality some comments are. It borders between an extreme 'fake it till you make it' mentality and sheer trolling.
For reference, in my G7 country $5k are 3 to 4 months wage.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
5k is a lot of money to the vast majority of the world. It is a considerable amount of money to most software developers.
It's two laptops. Hardly a king's ransom.
To some people it's more like 20 or 30 laptops, and is certainly "king's ransom" territory.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting. Do you have any personal experience or any other sources that estimate this kind of thing? I'm legitimately curious, I've often wondered what kind of revenue these types of things pull in. Obviously if they're not running ads and don't have any explicit monetization then it would be very little. But I always wonder about the ones that do.
I'd imagine hosting would not be resource-heavy so <$2/mo, that's why sites like these don't really need ads as the cost of hosting is negligible. is there any way of generating revenue other than plastering a load of ads onto a website? because doing so would cost a great number of users
I would assume they would be inexpensive to host as well. That's a given. I'm more interested in how much money they can make.
Simply running ads doesn't really seem like an issue as long as you're not making the site unusable. I'd be more concerned about the fact that the average user in need of a base64 converter is arguably more likely to be using an adblocker.
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#80Huh, if you open the dev console it says it was build with Bubble ( https://bubble.io/ ) a no-code platform.
Since this is likely my first conscious run in with a website explicitly generated through a no-code platform, I have to say my experience are very negative. The load time is unbearable for something as simple as this.
Oh yeah, they're terrible in many ways, but so was the first version of . At the moment you can prototype with them. In five years, though...