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Depends what you mean by profitable. http://sites.creou.com http://sites.creou.com It took about 4-6 weeks to build (fairly significant hours during that time

Depends what you mean by profitable. http://sites.creou.com http://sites.creou.com It took about 4-6 weeks to build (fairly significant hours during that time). It currently only has 1 paying customer, but they pay about 10% more than it costs to host, so it technicaly makes profit month to month, but is unlikely to ever make back the costs I sunk into it. (Main problem is that although it was intended to be able to be used to build lots of sites, I think in the end it was too closely tied to what the first customer wanted, so although they love it, I've never been able to sell it to anyone else, I've more or less given up on it now)

pryelluw 10y ago
I sell something similar but charge at least a hundred times more per project / site. You should really promote this as the "local" (country based) solution and raise prices. For £75 you will only get annoying cheapskates.
- SimonPStevens 10y ago
  That's interesting because in the end I gave up because I felt like the space was too over crowded with lower cost alternatives already. I had managed to get a few potential clients but ultimately they all decided to go with other companies that would offer them a fully custom site for a fixed price of anything between £1000 and £4000. We had limits on how much we would customize the sites because of how the engine was built, all the sites it produces essentially follow the same template. And £75 per month passes £1000 after only a year. It seemed that we couldn't compete on price, because cheaper design shops could throw together a template and charge £100-£200 total + only bare minimum £5 budget hosting per month. And we also couldn't compete on customisation or service because for only a few thousand you can get a reasonable quality fully custom site. I'd be interested to chat more if you were willing. (email in my profile).
  - pryelluw 10y ago
    Sure thing. Mine is in my profile in case you need to whitelist it to avoid hitting the spam filter.

pryelluw 10y ago

I sell something similar but charge at least a hundred times more per project / site. You should really promote this as the "local" (country based) solution and raise prices. For £75 you will only get annoying cheapskates.

SimonPStevens 10y ago
That's interesting because in the end I gave up because I felt like the space was too over crowded with lower cost alternatives already. I had managed to get a few potential clients but ultimately they all decided to go with other companies that would offer them a fully custom site for a fixed price of anything between £1000 and £4000. We had limits on how much we would customize the sites because of how the engine was built, all the sites it produces essentially follow the same template. And £75 per month passes £1000 after only a year. It seemed that we couldn't compete on price, because cheaper design shops could throw together a template and charge £100-£200 total + only bare minimum £5 budget hosting per month. And we also couldn't compete on customisation or service because for only a few thousand you can get a reasonable quality fully custom site. I'd be interested to chat more if you were willing. (email in my profile).
- pryelluw 10y ago
  Sure thing. Mine is in my profile in case you need to whitelist it to avoid hitting the spam filter.