Twitturly for sale and YouNoodle thinks its worth $9.8M in 3 yrs time

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/46142

by khangtoh • 18 years ago

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Twitturly is a PR6 site and has an Alexa Rank of 59,377 (9/17/08).

If you believe in the YouNoodle Startup Valuation tool (not that you should), Twitturly will be worth $9,810,000 in three years. I am not sure about that number (likely not), but I am sure it will be worth far more in three years than it goes for here today.

khangtoh2• 18 years ago

From the auction description:

"If you believe in the YouNoodle Startup Valuation tool (not that you should), Twitturly will be worth $9,810,000 in three years. I am not sure about that number (likely not), but I am sure it will be worth far more in three years than it goes for here today."

comatose_kid• 18 years ago

Which begs the question - if you're sure, why not wait 3 years?

alum• 18 years ago

On the link, there's a section titled "Why am I selling it?"... I'm guessing reading that section would answer your question.

_b8r0• 18 years ago

Yes. I have a bridge in London that you might be interested. Apparently it will be worth $9.8M in 3 yrs time.

fallentimes• 18 years ago

Reminds me of the Alaska bridge :(. http://www.safuto.com/2008/09/the-real-story-of-the-bridge-t...

khangtoh2• 18 years ago

Not to discredit the work that YouNoodle engineers had put into, but I just don't quite agree with their valuation model.

MicahWedemeyer3• 18 years ago

Do sales like this actually happen? Is there any startup-type person out there who would/could come up with $10k to straight-up buy someone else's site?

It seems to me like a recipe for disaster and heartbreak.

ashleyw• 18 years ago

Personally, I dont think anything which is bootstrapped onto another companies data will ever be worth that much, unless they buy it, that is. (...summarize)

All it takes is for Twitter to implement something similar ("What are people talking about on Twitter?") and your apps life has just got harder to live, if not impossible...

I love mashups, I just don't think you should build a business on top of another service...

axod• 18 years ago

At the very least at $10k, a months page views works out at 2c per page view. So at $10k I'd say the traffic alone is cheap, if you have a similar service that could tie into it, or a way to monetize that traffic.

bigbang• 18 years ago

It would be a good acquisition for digg. For 10K, they would save a month's time and 1-2 months engineering time assuming single employee.

MicahWedemeyer3• 18 years ago

How so? They buy it, then spend 1 month reading through the code and another month (at least) integrating what they can with their own codebase.

maryrosecook• 18 years ago

Doing business like this is a really good way to make money and scratch one's hacker itch: have fun bashing out a prototype, get the site going, then try and sell it a short while later.

It seems like it's more financially practical than working on open-source full time, and more fun and novel than grinding on a startup for a few years.

MicahWedemeyer3• 18 years ago

If you can find a consistent stream of buyers. Good luck with that one.

ryanmahoski• 18 years ago

I wonder how they deal with spam. Twitter doesn't even require email verification. Someone could create a bunch of twitter accounts, connect them, and shotgun URLs by script.

Twitturly for sale and YouNoodle thinks its worth $9.8M in 3 yrs time

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