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I would consider selling my side project/business - http://flextory.com http://flextory.com . It's a web based data management system with a focus on features

by cbeley 11y ago

I would consider selling my side project/business - http://flextory.com http://flextory.com . It's a web based data management system with a focus on features for handling inventory. I went pretty far with it and have some active customers to this day. It's just no longer what I soak time into. I've considered turning it into an open source project, but just haven't gotten around to it. Running Flextory has been an amazing experience for me though. It's kind of my baby. It would be hard to part with, but I'd consider it.

tacone 11y ago
I've been considering building a similar side-project for a while. Well done :)
seanccox 11y ago
This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?
- cbeley 11y ago
  Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead. If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt comfortable with (or could justify the expense for). There's also the issue that Flextory is a bit hard to sell. People I have demoed directly to for their specific purpose have been easily sold and were able to justify the value. However, when I can't directly demo, I get a lot of comments about it being too expensive to justify it. Even people that were sold have iffyness on justifying the cost (despite things like netdoc, which Flextory pretty much outperforms, costing in the thousands range). I've considered lowering my prices, but if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring in new customers. One reason I was considering open sourcing it (apart from a desire to give back to the comunity a bit), is that I could use that as a platform/advertising for selling the sass portion of it.
  - seanccox 11y ago
    My first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.
cunnuh 11y ago
Hi - could be a fit with what we're doing at www.leonardo247.com. I'll put my email in my profile if you'd like to chat.

by cbeley 11y ago

tacone 11y ago

I've been considering building a similar side-project for a while. Well done :)

seanccox 11y ago

This is a great system. Have you ever considered partnering with someone to help increase sales, instead of selling it?

cbeley 11y ago
Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead. If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt comfortable with (or could justify the expense for). There's also the issue that Flextory is a bit hard to sell. People I have demoed directly to for their specific purpose have been easily sold and were able to justify the value. However, when I can't directly demo, I get a lot of comments about it being too expensive to justify it. Even people that were sold have iffyness on justifying the cost (despite things like netdoc, which Flextory pretty much outperforms, costing in the thousands range). I've considered lowering my prices, but if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring in new customers. One reason I was considering open sourcing it (apart from a desire to give back to the comunity a bit), is that I could use that as a platform/advertising for selling the sass portion of it.
- seanccox 11y ago
  My first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.

cunnuh 11y ago

Hi - could be a fit with what we're doing at www.leonardo247.com. I'll put my email in my profile if you'd like to chat.