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How much is News.YC worth?
If someone wanted to sell a site with a similar user and traffic numbers, in your opinion, what would be the present worth in 2007 dollars, 2002 dollars, and possibly 1999 dollars for a site like news.ycombinator.com.
- jdavid 19y agoif we are going to play this game, don't we need the stats on the site?
- trekker7 19y agoShould it vary by site content? Reddit turned into a general purpose social news site, but Hacker News is more of a niche thing. Would a larger corporation buy a site like this? I'm not saying they wouldn't; I don't know how it works, maybe someone could explain.
- flyhighplato 19y agoIt would probably be worth more as a web application that allowed you to pretty much run your own reddit or news.ycombinator than as a "hacker news" site. A larger corporation might buy it for the actual software, not the audience.
- SwellJoe 19y agoThe software is trivial, or close to it. Sure, there are a few smart/hard bits, but any competent developer could resolve them with a month or less of development time. Building a community is much harder than building a simple web application like this one. And not that by saying this, I'm not trivializing News.YC, I'm just saying you're placing value in the wrong place.
- alex_c 19y agoAgreed, but you can only sell a community once, you can sell the software many times.
- staunch 19y agoIt's worth exactly $48,493.63 USD.
- dood 19y agoHowever much anyone is willing to pay for it, like anything else.
- nickb 19y ago"What Is My Blog Worth"says: $172,749.24 http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/ http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-y...
- henning 19y agofun exercise: come up with 5 different ways of valuing news.yc, each of which seem reasonable and each of which give wildly different answers.
- mlibbrecht 19y agoThe value of news.yc is the input of pg and the other moderators. Without them, news.yc is just another reddit.
- Nate 19y agoIf you want the stats for YC, you can look them up on Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3...
- nreece 19y agoAs per dnScoop ( http://dnscoop.com/?site=www.ycombinator.com http://dnscoop.com/?site=www.ycombinator.com ): The estimated value of http://www.ycombinator.com http://www.ycombinator.com is: $2,231,230 This value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.