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SideProjectors – Marketplace to buy and sell side projects

57 points by martinml 13y ago

davewasthere 13y ago
My initial thought with the domain name was: "That's a rather specific thing to be selling... Side Projectors... Like creating a website selling just Dvorak Keyboards..."
- clavalle 13y ago
  At least you know exactly what you are getting. Something in alpha, mostly. Messy code, half baked features, that kind of thing. I could see it being valuable for people who have a hard time getting started but go like gangbusters once they have something to bang against.
  - honzzz 13y ago
    I think the parent means that Side Projector sounds like some weird kind of a projector... as an optical device that projects an image onto a surface. That was my first thought.
    - clavalle 13y ago
      Yeah. I read through too quickly... Thanks for pointing that out.
AGresvig 13y ago
You gotta juice up your hosting! Site is suffering under heavy load it seems.
- martinml 13y ago
  Not mine, I found it in another thread[1], but it seems to load every now and then, try again. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506360
zeckalpha 13y ago
How does one calculate value for a side project?
- neals 13y ago
  I guess the market will decide what a fair price for any project will be? If the site works like I think it does (could not access it, server down?) I can imaging buying a project, working on it for a few months and then putting it back up for sale to maybe make a little profit and see some one else bring it to completing.
  - zeckalpha 13y ago
    The market deciding only would work right when there is perfect information. I'm not sure about that.
- bolder88 13y ago
  Take the twitter valuation, and say to yourself "well even if I'm only 0.1% as successful as twitter is...." and go from there.
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toblender 13y ago
You might want to use CloudFlare for the site. It's not really loading.
imechura 13y ago
I really like the layout of your site and its a great idea. Did you start from a template or from scratch? If you used a template can you point me to it?
joshdance 13y ago
Site seems to be down due to HN. But seems like a cool idea.
practicalpants 13y ago
Ah, wow, this was my side project I'd been hacking on and off for the last couple months. However I'm glad to see there's a site like this out now, and that it doesn't charge any man-in-the-middle fees. Would be especially interested to know how they beat the chicken-egg...

57 points by martinml 13y ago

My initial thought with the domain name was: "That's a rather specific thing to be selling... Side Projectors... Like creating a website selling just Dvorak Keyboards..."

clavalle 13y ago
At least you know exactly what you are getting. Something in alpha, mostly. Messy code, half baked features, that kind of thing. I could see it being valuable for people who have a hard time getting started but go like gangbusters once they have something to bang against.
- honzzz 13y ago
  I think the parent means that Side Projector sounds like some weird kind of a projector... as an optical device that projects an image onto a surface. That was my first thought.
  - clavalle 13y ago
    Yeah. I read through too quickly... Thanks for pointing that out.

AGresvig 13y ago

You gotta juice up your hosting! Site is suffering under heavy load it seems.

martinml 13y ago
Not mine, I found it in another thread[1], but it seems to load every now and then, try again. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506360

zeckalpha 13y ago

How does one calculate value for a side project?

neals 13y ago
I guess the market will decide what a fair price for any project will be? If the site works like I think it does (could not access it, server down?) I can imaging buying a project, working on it for a few months and then putting it back up for sale to maybe make a little profit and see some one else bring it to completing.
- zeckalpha 13y ago
  The market deciding only would work right when there is perfect information. I'm not sure about that.
bolder88 13y ago
Take the twitter valuation, and say to yourself "well even if I'm only 0.1% as successful as twitter is...." and go from there.

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toblender 13y ago

You might want to use CloudFlare for the site. It's not really loading.

imechura 13y ago

I really like the layout of your site and its a great idea. Did you start from a template or from scratch? If you used a template can you point me to it?

joshdance 13y ago

Site seems to be down due to HN. But seems like a cool idea.

practicalpants 13y ago

Ah, wow, this was my side project I'd been hacking on and off for the last couple months. However I'm glad to see there's a site like this out now, and that it doesn't charge any man-in-the-middle fees. Would be especially interested to know how they beat the chicken-egg...