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Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
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- polysaturate 9y agoThis comes up at a decent frequency lately. There was a Show HN lately where there was a listing website: http://borderline.biz http://borderline.biz EDIT: Fixed the URL
- hill_smith 9y agoI'd love to sell Tittie Time http://www.tittietime.com/ http://www.tittietime.com/ Edit: (other than the logo and name, the homepage is SFW)
- hill_smith 9y agoI guess I can understand why I'm being downvoted, but I'll share more info. FYI, the homepage is SFW. This was a goofy idea that I launched 2 years ago to test out Amazon SES and Sendy along with some content marketing skills I was wanting to put to use. At the moment I spend ~10 minutes each morning making the email. When I do a shirt, I wind up spending ~ 20 hours sending out ones I've sold. It's got ~10k subscribers who are all loyal fans (60% open rate on emails). I'm selling about 100 shirts everytime I post one for sale. I think there's tons of opportunity that I am not realizing as I've lost interest. Happy to answer any other questions.
- blowski 9y agoSerious question - are all the images submitted? How do you know nothing is 'revenge porn'?
- hill_smith 9y agoYep, all submitted. I don't know that, but have the obligatory DMCA page. I've never been asked to remove one.
- champagnepapi 9y agoAwesome! keep it up.
- hill_smith 9y agoThanks :).
- hill_smith 9y agoI'd also be happy to work with someone else on this. I'm a software engineer that would love to have a project to hack on that had revenue. I have tons of ideas on how to monetize this, but am not really interested in being the face of it. Someone to organize a street team that could engage 18-34's via wet tshirt bar meet ups or the like would be great. Or a writing partner as I've seen lots of growth when regular content is being generated.
- kidbravo 9y agoI'm very interested in this site and would like to discuss specifics
- hill_smith 9y agoEmail me - hi@tittietime.com
- kidbravo 9y agoSent
- Matt_Mickiewicz 9y agoI've seen a lot of interest for Fulfilled by Amazon e-commerce businesses on Flippa.com last few months. If you're making $1K or more per month in revenue, lots of buyers.
- kvee 9y agohttp://mailprincess.com/ http://mailprincess.com/ and its companion piece http://maleprincess.com/ http://maleprincess.com/
- jimijimi 9y agolove maleprincess
- jermaustin1 9y agoI really love this! I'm assuming it is a cordova, lob, plaid integration?
- iradik 9y agoWhy do you want to sell it? My friend and I thought of this the other day as a business. Do you do the printing yourself or use a SASS to do it?
- 0xfaded 9y agoHonest question. I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not have found the side project?
- hahla 9y agoPersonally - stable, profitable businesses.
- 1throwawayleft 9y agoI have a small set of user generated content sites (all PG, no NSFW junk) that I have run for the last eight years. Net income ranges between $30,000 and $45,000 monthly. 100% ad supported, buyer beware. Overhead (servers, cdn, et al) < $1000/month. I'm currently a software engineer working for another company while keeping this network alive in my spare time. It could definitely be monetized and run better with 100% attention, but after eight years I just don't have the energy for all the needless pop culture and memeology that needs to flow. I'm a one man team, and have automated a lot of the flow, but it started as a hobby project and would benefit from some attention to update the code bases. If you're heavy in the meme scene feel free to ping me at 1throwawayleft@gmail.com. The money will be good for a while longer and if you have the energy for it, you could extend it into perpetuity.
- srednalfden 9y agoWhat tech is behind the sites?
- dchuk 9y agoWhat types of sites? Forums?
- justhackedme 9y agoBuzzfeed or Memeology sites.
- larrik 9y agoI'm surprised you're bothering with a day job with that level of income.
- 1throwawayleft 9y agoDon't get me wrong, it's been a really fun thing to run. Rather than dedicate my life to something that started, more or less, by accident, I leveraged the opportunity to follow my actual CS passions which are quite a ways away from web dev. At this point and age I'm more disconnected from the genre but it still demands my energy.
- yasernour 9y agohttps://puzolinks.blogspot.com.eg/2017/10/this-1973-camper-is-mobile-home-of-our.html https://puzolinks.blogspot.com.eg/2017/10/this-1973-camper-i...
- colinbartlett 9y agoI have a few revenue-generating side projects, most notably StatusGator[1] which monitors status pages. But the problem I always have with selling side projects is that they are worth a lot more to me in emotional value than they are actually worth monetarily. I've put a lot of heart and soul into StatusGator, not to mention a lot of time, and selling it for what it's worth based on monthly revenue ($1k/month) wouldn't nearly cover that emotional value. And so I hang on to it. 1. https://statusgator.com https://statusgator.com
- hahla 9y agoWhat do you value it at emotionally? Shoot me an email maybe its what I value it realistically!
- alistproducer2 9y agohttps://sendnda.online https://sendnda.online e signature site built using WordPress. Uses stripe for payments. Built using mostly plugins. Tried to minimize customization for ease of maintenance.
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- anpk 9y agohttps://tweetcareers.com/ https://tweetcareers.com/, a job search engine for jobs posted on twitter.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoI have a site with 2k recurring revenue(16 percent profit margins) but it requires support and marketing time(5-10 hours per week). What kind of multiple is normal for something like this?
- hahla 9y agoSeems the industry trend right now is 32x monthly profit for a decent stable site. Could be significantly less, or slightly more. Shoot me an email and I can send you a ballpark offer.
- RepressedEmu 9y agoEmail sent.
- justswim 9y agohttps://www.mixfont.com https://www.mixfont.com Ranks well for "font generator" a fairly high traffic query. Almost zero cost but unfortunately does not make money right now either. eric@mixfont.com
- soaf 9y agoI love mixfont!
- justhackedme 9y agoWow, that's actually pretty great. Simple, creative, fast. Well done.
- wj 9y agoI developed a web app (with daily email updates to managers) to help small, remote businesses handle various operational things such as time off, expense reports, etc. https://www.startopz.com https://www.startopz.com
- mod 9y agoThis has come up twice (on Ask HN) in the past few months, you might use the search and find those past threads as well.
- cosmie 9y agoThere seems to be a trend here where people don’t want to sell their side project, but also don’t want to stray too far away from “fun side project I can hack on” into the world of business/marketing/operations. As someone who enjoys business/marketing/operations side projects the same way a dev loves a side project to code on, I’d love the chance to help anyone here out in that area (email in profile).
- whichdan 9y agohttp://easyendorse.com/ http://easyendorse.com/ SaaS that lets small businesses accept and display testimonials on their website, as an alternative to relying on Yelp. No traffic/income, just a project I put way too much personal time into :)
- meric 9y agoI was working on a program to calculate minimised Australian capital gains tax return for buying and selling shares. The core part is written as a set of custom PostgreSQL views and window functions. It is hosted by Django. I’ve built a minimal UI for it. Accountants and investors appreciate the tool, but I don’t have the time and money to take it further. I had estimated potential market in Australia from $100k to $1m revenue per year - not enough to start a startup. If interested in buying source code let me know. It supports stock splits and code changes
- justhackedme 9y agoThat's enough to start a startup buddy.
- desio 9y agohttps://goshipages.com https://goshipages.com pretty popular housing finder site for foreigners in south korea.
- justhackedme 9y agoNeat idea. Used a goshiwon a few times, but this site didn't really help me. The good ones need to be found themselves and don't advertise.
- desio 9y agoThanks! A shame the site didn't help you, but I am not sure I agree that the good ones need to be found themselves and don't advertise. In my experience it was opposite, the better ones were more likely to understand the importance of marketing. I think I have most of the better goshiwons in Seoul on the site, I can only think of 1 or maybe 2 goshiwons that considered themselves too good to need to advertise.
- justhackedme 9y agoI would tell you the fantastic one I went to, but then it'd be more full for the next time I want to visit. :(
- artcodedata 9y agoI created a Kickstarter that made $104,000 . It's a map of all subway maps in the world. The project did really well and attracted the attention of ~25 Media Outlets including Wired Magazine, Gizmodo, FastCompany, Tech Insider, Travel & Leisure, Slate, Curbed, Cool Hunting, and lot more. However, being a frontend developer that loves coding, I feel like I wasted a great opportunity of building a brand around it. The whole map was an attention grabber with the potential of turning it into multiple products for home, kids and even teenagers. To the day I still receive a lot of requests to talk about it, people keep buying it around the world and is currently being exhibited in a museum in Beijing. I would love to sell this to a great Marketing team / Visionary that can build a multi-million brand with it. You can see the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960956629/the-world-metro-map https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960956629/the-world-me... (Update: Yes all the IP belong to us because it's a modified version of the original and because we draw the whole thing from scratch.)
- AdamSC1 9y agoGot an email?
- artcodedata 9y agogcid@artcodedata.com
- justhackedme 9y agoI don't know how you got 100k to waste. That project seems like a toy hobby more than anything. I guess people don't really value their money these days. I've seen worse kickstarters. Also I thought it was cool until I realised it doesn't even remotely have every station in the world, not even close. 214 cities? That's fuck all. The internet amazes me.
- artcodedata 9y agoHaters Gonna Hate.
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- thebiglebrewski 9y agohttp://zfeldman.com/projects http://zfeldman.com/projects anything here I suppose.
- frontendstrong 9y agoI have a side project with products I'm wanting to sell, does that count? I wanted some merch for Playerunknowns Battleground and I couldn't find anything decent, so I made them myself. https://www.thelootables.com/ https://www.thelootables.com/
- schilling 9y agohttps://www.menutabapp.com/ https://www.menutabapp.com/ More than 25,000 restaurants on board, more than 500,000 food pictures uploaded, more than 14,000 Likes. One of the biggest menu apps on Facebook. Freemium, it generated 1.5k - 2k a month - then Facebook's payment api changed and I didn't have the time to fix it. It's free to use now.
- cesidio 9y agoCompanyCarpool Carooling app for companies and organizations: http://www.companycarpool.com/ http://www.companycarpool.com/ I keep on receiving interest from big companies, but don't manage to convert it into a sell. Not sure I want to sell it, but would be interested in some help and potential partners. The algorithm that finds compatible rides along the whole route is quite advanced (BlaBlaCar does not have it)
- vlindos 9y agohttps://kripko.trade https://kripko.trade An platform for hosting cryptocurrency merchants.