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Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
- tombert 10y agoI built a basic YouTube clone in Erlang that I currently only use in my home network. I've often wondered how much I could make if I came up with some flashy logo and name and tried to monetize it.
- leaveyou 10y agoI don't know what infrastructure youtube has, but I work in the same building with another known "youtube clone" from Europe and they are spread on 7-8 floors and have a lot of remote infrastructure. (serious question) How can you realistically compete in this area with a basic youtube clone ? From my point of view, the infrastructure and operational costs dwarf the development costs.
- neoh 10y agoThey're the clear market winner but some companies might need an internal youtube clone or might need to adapt a similar system that they would find his useful for. But hey if it has enough bells and whistles it could be the facebook to myspace.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agomoron... cloning youtube and cloning youtube's business model are not the same thing. everyone can have their own youtube clone in their house. software can be free. you're all idiots.
- tombert 10y agoThe nice thing (at least from my admittedly-fairly-ad-hoc experience) about video processing is that it scales fairly linearly, at least for the basic features. Things like building a scalable transcoding cluster can be made fairly simple ("just add more boxes") using a decent message-queue service. From there, everything is pretty simple HTTP. Of course, this is only the very barebones stuff, and covering all of Youtube's features exhaustively would be quite difficult, and requires some good Machine Learning work.
- vishalzone2002 10y agoI work on data science. I also had an idea around youtube. Want to have a chat?
- tombert 10y agoSure, you can email me at thomas@gebert.sexy (yes, really).
- vram22 10y agoPartly related anecdote: I did some contract work some years ago for a startup (Tellytopia, later acquired by Concurrent Systems) that was into the video over IP space. Video transcoding was a part of the project, but I didn't work on that, which was in C++. I worked on some of the surrounding parts, in Python with XML-RPC, talking to Java, across machines. I remember that all or most functions in the app were XML-RPC-enabled, so that they could be located in different machines, which must have helped somewhat with scaling.
- swalsh 10y agoI'd turn it into something that's like a video dating site :D
- scandox 10y agoI know of at least one film production and distribution company that would like to have their own video platform, but got quoted huge up front costs by web devs who don't really know video anyway. The key to selling this though is to be able to customize to their needs, provide support and SLAs etc... Hard work in all likelihood.
- mdotk 10y agoAllow people to white label your YT clone and charge subscription fees monthly or for PPV. Let sports team etc sell the rights to their content directly.
- bartoszhernas 10y agohttps://freeyourmusic.com https://freeyourmusic.com Offers please send to b@hern.as :)
- jakeva 10y agohttp://www.theoncueapp.com http://www.theoncueapp.com Never knew how to market it
- codegeek 10y agoI hope this is ok to post but I would love to buy a project that is hopefully making a little bit of money. My sweet spot is 2k-5k USD per month in profit. I do have some specific requirements in terms of the type of projects. My profile has details.
- manuelflara 10y agohttp://founderpact.com http://founderpact.com It's not making any revenue so any offer will be considered. It's a tool for helping inexperienced founders avoid common mistakes when starting a business with someone, both legally and in terms of making sure you're on the same page. Did it after getting very burned on a business venture because of this. Got retweeted by some TechCrunch writer and also got to the frontpage (I think) of ProductHunt a while back. But I never got the time to get the product to where I wanted it to be (pay a $49 fee to get a good legally binding agreement based on the data you provided that you can just download, print and sign, and avoid problems and lawyer fees) nor market it properly (I also think it would be great to partner up with people who organize hackatons etc). Built in Rails, hosted in DigitalOcean. Email in profile
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- bijection 10y agoI have a cute natural language data analysis tool. It turns sentences into pivot tables. http://omrelli.ug/tables/ http://omrelli.ug/tables/ It really wants to be wrapped up into some sort of product, but I'm not quite sure what :)
- trienthusiast 10y agoI think it's a nifty tool but you need to find a better way to describe what it is and what it does.
- fspear 10y agoThis is really really cool. What's the backend stack like if you don't mind me asking? I was thinking of implementing something like this for Daily Fantasy Sports stats...kinda like https://www.statmuse.com https://www.statmuse.com
- cobitapps 10y agoDesigned, built and launched a mobile ICD-10 & ICD-9 iOS app for physicians, clinical staff and medical billers. For those of you not familiar with ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) is the standard for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases for purposes of clinical documentation and billing. Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icd-10-diagnoses-codes-icd-x/id863961123?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icd-10-diagnoses-codes-icd-x...
- camilleroux 10y ago1001tweets, a web app to repeat your tweets to get more clicks. More than 10 paying customers. http://www.1001tweets.com/ http://www.1001tweets.com/ You can contact me at hello AT 1001tweets DOT com
- siavosh 10y agohttps://faqt.co https://faqt.co We're closing down on April 30th.
- peacemaker 10y agoCan I ask why you're shutting down? Do you have customers?
- wj 10y agoI'm going to repost from the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473): StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com http://www.startopz.com): Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.
- jorgemf 10y agoYes, but I know it is going to be very difficult to find someone willing to pay as much as I expect for the time I spent developing it (1 year full time + 1 year part time). So, it will be always mine until I decided its time to kill it forever. http://apphunt.livae.com/ http://apphunt.livae.com/
- nodesocket 10y agoWilling to hear and entertain offers for my startup Commando.io which is SaaS (https://commando.io https://commando.io). Profitable, with solid MRR. Looking for 2.5 - 3.5x annual revenue (so offers > 40k and < 100k just for general magnitude). I'm looking to focus my time, energy, and capital on my new startup (https://elasticbyte.net https://elasticbyte.net). Contact info: hello at domain.
- jackgolding 10y ago2-3x ARR is VERY CHEAP for SAAS tools
- trevmckendrick 10y agoThis is not true. Prices vary widely, and 2-3x is definitely within range of prices you'd see selling through brokers. The price also depends on the product/company itself: how stable are revenues, what's churn, how diversified are traffic sources, etc.
- antoineaugusti 10y agohttps://teen-quotes.com https://teen-quotes.com. I never found the time to promote it properly
- sodafountan 10y agoWho can I email about a possible acquisition?
- antoineaugusti 10y agosupport@teen-quotes.com
- davidw 10y agoI'd consider selling LiberWriter - http://www.liberwriter.com http://www.liberwriter.com - to the right person. Built with Rails, makes some money. Contact info in my profile.
- makeee 10y agohttp://imgfave.com http://imgfave.com - YC company. 100k daily pageviews. http://backerpass.com http://backerpass.com - Monthly funding platform for artists and creators. ~$200/month currently going to creators. http://followfridayapp.com http://followfridayapp.com - Web, iOS, Android. Doesn't work currently because Instagram restricted their API. Could be rebranded into an app focused on selecting your own photos (something like 2016bestnine.com). http://facebook.com/youtubesearchbot http://facebook.com/youtubesearchbot - Messenger bot with 25 daily active users. Yeah not a lot, but could be grown if you have another bot to cross-promote with. Contact info in profile.
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- fourstar 10y agoDoes imgfave make any money? Surprised to hear it's a YC company. I remember it.
- makeee 10y agoYup, YC S12. It does, but it's hard to cover CDN costs these days. CDN costs have gone up, mostly due to gifs, and ad rates have fallen over the past few years. Never quite got to the size where I could do direct brand deals for higher CPMs.
- boundlessdreamz 10y agoYou are using google cloud storage? That's very expensive (as is cloudfront) since they charge for requests. Try KeyCDN/maxCDN/edgecast (via a reseller) which doesn't charge for requests and with cheaper bandwidth pricing
- drc37 10y agoIs backerpass growing/shrinking/steady?
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- iamben 10y agoSuper simple todo list, done nothing with it (except use it). Never marketed it, works quite well though. https://fivethings.today/ https://fivethings.today/
- loftsy 10y agohttps://repo0.com/ https://repo0.com/ - Unlimited Git hosting using your Google Drive account. Just getting started on marketing.
- ainiriand 10y agoI particularly like your tool!
- loftsy 10y agoThanks! Did you try to sign up? I would appreciate any feedback you have.
- canadianhacker 10y agoCool, simple idea. If you don't mind answering, how many users do you have? I feel like for making money, you could pitch the solution to Google and ideally get them to buy it.
- loftsy 10y agoThanks! Its only recently released and I'm beginning to work on marketing now so the user numbers are really just friends of mine (like less than 50).
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- gjanezic 10y agohttps://edini.net/ https://edini.net/ - you can customize different products (mugs, phone cases, puzzles, ...). Its in Slovenian language, but can easily be multilang. I would sell everything (website, inventory, sublimation machine, printer, molds, ..). Build on WordPress+WooCommerce.
- Capira 10y agohttps://snapdrop.net https://snapdrop.net had 20k views within first day of launch and 500k in the first year
- rhizome 10y agoBoy, that landing sure could use additional marketing copy.
- zaytoun 10y agohttp://chatible.io http://chatible.io - FB Messenger bot to chat with people anonymously. 400k+ users, processes anywhere between 500k to 5 million messages per day depending on the day. Completely organic growth and can be easily expanded to other platforms and potentially monetized. It was also accepted into Facebook's FbStart program. http://rubeta.com http://rubeta.com - SMS Fundraising platform for small nonprofits. The product was completed recently, and I haven't begun marketing it yet. Easy monetization. Both products can be easily expanded, but unfortunately I haven't found the time to do so. Contact in bio.
- malux85 10y agohttps://SignalBox.ai/ https://SignalBox.ai/ Reach out and let's chat
- rrggrr 10y agoThis has potential... but without a lower price point and the ability to run some free testing against it I think user growth will be severely constrained.
- rnmp 10y agohttp://dev.convos.org/ http://dev.convos.org/ - anonymous structured conversations for your team reach out to rolando [at] bandd.co if you're interested
- moxplod 10y agotixyy.com (site is offline) - an event ticketing platform with multiple viral ticket selling features built in, think mini eventbrite. Ran it for a couple years with real money coming in.
- 55555 10y agohttp://choosejarvis.com http://choosejarvis.com -- social media scheduling tool with content recommendations powered by buzzsumo. 1k MRR steady for the past 6 months or so. Written in PHP. Very stable. would sell in a heartbeat for 50k and would consider lower offers.
- trienthusiast 10y agothe tool seems nice and I think I heard of it before. Is it only 6 months old? I am surprised you don't make more than 1k/month.
- mattm 10y agoHow do you manage to get the posts from Facebook? I thought they shut down their public API - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed
- matheweis 10y agohttps://iconverticons.com/ https://iconverticons.com/ https://iconverticons.com/online/ https://iconverticons.com/online/ ~3000 DAU Things are going well, mostly don't have time to maintain the offline OS specific apps right now. Willing to share revenue numbers if seriously interested.
- dustinlakin 10y agohttp://draftutility.com/ http://draftutility.com/ - Daily Fantasy sports research utility that uses visual guides to accurately estimate performances. It also helps simulate lineups that optimize salary cap usage and projected score.
- averageweather 10y agohttp://www.averageweather.io http://www.averageweather.io I've got a database of over 2k locations searched and over 27k days of weather searched. Must have some advertising value ... ? Site has been live for ~6months People seem to love it for wedding planning: https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/website_to_get_average_weather_for_your_wedding/ https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/web...
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- cesidio 10y agohttp://www.companycarpool.com/ http://www.companycarpool.com/ No profit so far but interest from many company, some from fortune 500. Easy to set up. Considering to release it open source
- taphangum 10y agohttps://candymetrics.com https://candymetrics.com Amazon Seller Analytics Software Haven't really had time to work on it but its a great niche and the backend is solid (built in Laravel).
- 7ero 10y agohttps://twee-shirt.me https://twee-shirt.me Print tweets on t-shirts, got bored, built this. Haven't put much marketing into it, but I'm sure someone who does could make some money.
- peacemaker 10y agoI'd listen to offers for my WordPress plugins business QuipCode (http://quipcode.com http://quipcode.com). Solid software, OK sales just never marketed it and not sure the best way to do so. I also have http://buyindiegames.com http://buyindiegames.com right now just a basic blog but I think it has loads of potential for someone with a bit more time. You can email me at jamie [at] quipcode.com
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- twelch 10y agoA search engine for sales tax in Canada (world's first), with approximately 12,000 items is available for sale. It has just started making money too. http://isittaxed.ca/ http://isittaxed.ca/
- mooktakim 10y agohttp://tweet-a-lot.com/ http://tweet-a-lot.com/ Gamifying twitter for your brand. Good for gigs and music events.
- whichdan 10y agohttp://easyendorse.com/ http://easyendorse.com/ - Allows websites to collect & display testimonials; great for companies who have had challenges with Yelp/etc. No traffic/users; I basically built it and learned that I had no interest in sales/marketing. Email in profile.
- cmacole 10y agohttp://takeafive.com http://takeafive.com - Productivity tool that allows you to open a self-destructing tab during breaks. Solid and steady user base. Profitable, but haven't monetized much yet. contact: cole@takeafive.com
- ian_beals 10y agoOpen to selling my chrome extension Vaux (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vaux-tab/jjkichgfihbcfcfhiaolhdjeekbmihdf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vaux-tab/jjkichgfi...) Great reviews, 150+ users. I will also commit to 3 months of development after sale.
- id122015 10y agoI finished my first ever website prototype, nothing special, minimum file processing. But I did not deploy it, I tried first to put the domain on sale on SEDO and they suggest I should sell it for over 10k for it. But I also searched other domain extensions using the same one word, and those are also worth over 10k, so its hard to believe that the domain is really valuable. In a week I got 100 views. I don't really want to sell, but nor do I have the strength to continue right now. I'm on a break, for as long as I want.
- ezekg 10y agohttps://www.themejuice.it https://www.themejuice.it - Desktop app for local WP development. Been focusing on other projects and have recently shifted away from WP development. Open to entertaining offers. Contact details in profile.
- usaphp 10y agoI would love to sell my portfolio on themeforest. Making about $100k/year in profit (after all expenses e.g. Hosting, support personnel etc...) and has been steadily growing for the last 2-3 years. I am just tired of theme development and want to do something else. I work about 4 hours a week to fix some small bugs from time to time and pretty much that's it. Contact hn@pinsupreme.com
- Cpmly 10y agoSelling my banner ad network cpmly.com which makes $4,000 in revenue per month and has over 350 users. It gets about 3 mio ad impressions per day/ 90 mio per month. The fixed costs are like $80 per month only for the server. Send me an email for more information: mail@cpmly.com
- skdotdan 10y agoCould I ask you why are selling it?
- Cpmly 10y agoI have to sell it because of another bigger project.
- taphangum 10y agoYou started this in January if I'm not mistaken, right?
- Cpmly 10y agoYes correct, I have to sell it because of another bigger project.
- Jacobkr 10y agoIf you are selling it, why are you sending out spam e-mails asking people to join? I got an e-mail from forwardingservice@mail.whoisprivacyservice.org If you are sending these advertisements - which i don't mind if you actually have something good to offer - then you should really not try to hide who you are. I also doubt that any quality sites will join random ad-networks. That's just the hard reality of the current market. I am already using Adsense, and I often have problems with fraudulent, and just general shitty ads showing up on my site. If Google Adsense has problems keeping out the junk, even in light of their strict rules and ways to report ads, then surely it will be near impossible for a small startup network to stay clean, and only accept quality publishers. It actually makes me quite angry when people like you, jump into a project, without first doing what's necessary to at least provide the same quality as existing industry leaders.
- vax 10y agohttp://HeadlampTest.com http://HeadlampTest.com "Augmented reality for web testers" Lets testers & whole teams track their progress, also provides analysis for manager/team to rebalance test efforts. Helps ID holes in manual & automated test scripts. It's a Google Chrome plugin. Zero customers. I have too many other projects that I'm pursuing & no time to market it. Provisional patent filed. Contact: service at goldcreekgroup dot com
- armis 10y agohttps://www.statsglitch.com https://www.statsglitch.com - SASS, which allow you to detect Google Analytics anomalies, traffic rise / drop and makes beautiful and grouped daily alerts. You can select what exact metrics to track, confidence interval and a few more custom stuff. Successfully used by a few people (including myself), now don't have much time/knowledge in marketing. Email is in my profile or aminas @ domain
- alewish2196 10y agohttps://uggabooga.com/ https://uggabooga.com/ - gets about 100-150 views a day. Makes about $200 a month in profit. We sell fashion accessories for men and women. Lots of potential to grow, just not interested anymore. Looking to get 2-4K for it. Email is alewish2196@gmail.com
- bbcbasic 10y agoWhy is everything $0?
- lcall 10y agohttp://onemodel.org http://onemodel.org Details at site. I will hopefully continue but am not currently doing it justice.
- criticdanger 10y agoOpen to selling http://quickpages.co http://quickpages.co since I haven't had much time lately. Free landing page generator with a lot of potential, launched late last year and currently has 900 users, with about 10 new signups per day on average. Does not earn anything yet because it is a free service, but for a few more features it would be possible to charge for it. It is made using Laravel.
- markhall 10y agoWhat would you be looking to get for it?
- bbcbasic 10y agohttps://www.dealomni.com https://www.dealomni.com - domain and source code $2k
- treycopeland 10y agoEcommerce dropship site - https://www.rusticsportsman.com https://www.rusticsportsman.com. Profitable. Email info@rusticsportsman and we can chat :)
- worldofnovelty 10y agoWorldOfNovelty.com Earning 92/mo avg. on flippa for auction rn