Selling a Working Web 2.0 Website - Where to Sell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164512

by berecruited • 18 years ago

16 17 18 years ago

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Where is the best place to sell a fully-functional, web 2.0 website? eBay seems like it won't attract the right audience and I really cannot tell the difference between the myriad of SitePoint-like sites. What has worked well in the past?

gscott• 18 years ago

Selling a website and domain... it is hard to get a good valuation out of it. It is a lot like a hot rod where a person has put in thousands of hours but when they want to sell there car no one will give them enough to justify all of those hours.

Try this site http://www.codango.com/, you can list it for license there. This way you can license it over and over again I believe you will make more this way then a one time sale. If you get a good base of people who have licensed it, you can create upgrades for another thing to sell.

epi0Bauqu• 18 years ago

Why do you want to sell it?

abstractbill• 18 years ago

kiko was sold on ebay for around $250k

sanswork3• 18 years ago

www.sitepoint.com

forums.digitalpoint.com

Those are two of the biggest out there for selling developed sites.

sharpshoot• 18 years ago

if its Berecruited.com - i would get TC to blog about it or mashable and drum up some interest. That site has had a lot of coverage,

tx2• 18 years ago

"Would get TC to blog about it"

Good luck with that.

tylercarbone• 18 years ago

Any thoughts on that?

emmett2• 18 years ago

We sold kiko.com on ebay for $250k.

If you can drum up enough coverage, it works quite well. The key is getting coverage - the more people know it's up for sale, the more people will bid.

parker• 18 years ago

Just curious - did you guys put a reserve on that auction?

emmett2• 18 years ago

$50,000. It was met very early, but the price went from $70k to $250k in the last 2 hours.

attack2• 18 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153676

sanswork3• 18 years ago

A business isn't a digitally downloaded good.

Edit: just to clarify they are referring to things like "eBook teaching you how to make $1,000,000 a day by doing nothing!" type sales

mflinsch• 18 years ago

Given the audience here on HN, it would make sense to include the link in your question. This would be the community in which to gain awareness.

berecruited• 18 years ago

Thanks for chiming in everyone. Hacker News continues to impress me - the community feedback is superb.

It is not beRecruited.com (http://www.berecruited.com) - which is doing quite well!!

It's a side project that I worked on called PopChatter (http://www.popchatter.com) - which was more of an experiment in Ruby on Rails than anything else. I simply don't have enough time these days to grow it and innovate (just not enough time in the day!).

Selling a Working Web 2.0 Website - Where to Sell?

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